Tuck Everlasting Ch. 8-25 summary By: Betsy & Bailley

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Tuck Everlasting Ch. 8-25 summaryBy Betsy
Bailley
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Chapter 8

• Jesse told Winnie about the spring.
• They took Winnie to their house to explain more
  about the spring.
• The man in the yellow suit was hiding behind the
  bushes and heard the entire conversation.

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Chapter 9

• Winnie and the Tucks arrived home.
• Winnie met Angus.
• Angus said that Winnie was the best thing that
  had happened in 80 years.
• He also said that he was very happy because she
  was the first child that was actually going to
  grow up.

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Chapter 10

• The author was describing the Tucks dirty house
  (green plush sofa, shotgun in the corner, three
  armchairs, an old rocker
• The boys slept in the loft.
• Winnie got a tour of the Tucks home.

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Chapter 11

• They had flapjacks, bacon, bread, and applesauce
  for breakfast.
• Winnie realizes that there are no rules to eating
  at the Tucks.
• Winnie realizes how uncomfortable she feels and
  wants to go home (shes homesick.)
• Angus takes Winnie rowing on the pond to talk.

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Chapter 12

• Tuck and Winnie went rowing and a frog kept
  croaking.
• Tuck was talking about how the pond is always
  different and is only the same for less than 2
  seconds.
• Winnie was talking about the spring and said that
  she didnt want to die.
• Miles was screaming about how the horse was
  stolen.

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Chapter 13

• Around midnight the man in the yellow suit got
  down from the saddle on the Tucks horse and tied
  it to the Fosters gate.
• The man in the yellow suit invited himself in to
  the Fosters home.
• The man in the yellow suit told Winnies
  Grandmother that he knew were they have taken her
  little girl.

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Chapter 14

• Winnie couldnt go to sleep because her bed was
  lumpy and her pillow was hard.
• Jesse told Winnie to drink the spring when she
  was 17 so they could run away together and see
  the world.
• The Tucks kept asking if she was okay in the
  middle of the night.
• Jesse told Winnie in the middle of the night that
  she must keep the secret!!!

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Chapter 15

• The man in the yellow suit told the Fosters again
  that he knew where Winnie was.
• The man in the yellow suit said he would find
  Winnie if the Fosters gave him the property next
  door the woods.
• Mr. Foster wanted to go with the man in the
  yellow suit, but the man in the yellow suit said
  that he wanted to do it his way.

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Chapter 16

• The constable was fat, and sleepy.
• The constable thought that the man in the yellow
  suit was working with the kidnappers (the Tucks).
• The police officer was surprised that they would
  have to ride at least 20 miles.
• The man in the yellow suit was in a hurry to get
  to the Tucks house so he went ahead of the police
  officer.

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Chapter 17

• Winnie said that she loved the Tucks and that
  they were friends and hers alone.
• Winnie and Miles went fishing to get breakfast
  and to talk. Miles started talking about his
  daughter, Anna, and his son.
• Winnie asked Miles what he was going to do with
  his life, and he said something quite important
  but he doesnt know yet.

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Chapter 18

• Winnie and Miles went fishing and Miles caught a
  fish but Winnie cried and asked him to through it
  back.
• The Tucks had flapjacks for breakfast again.
• Winnie thought that Angus Tuck was the dearest of
  them all.
• The man in the yellow suit knocked on the Tucks
  door.

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Chapter 19

• The man in the yellow suit told the Tucks that
  his grandmother had taught him the melody of the
  music box.
• The man in the yellow suit said that he was going
  to sell the spring water because he owns the
  woods including the magic spring.
• The man in the yellow suit took Winnie away
  against her will.
• Mae smacked the man in the yellow suit with the
  forgotten shotgun and the constable just came
  through the woods and saw it all.

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Chapter 20

• The constable questioned Mae about why she hit
  him. She told him that he was taking Winnie
  unwillingly, but he said that was what they did.
  Then Winnie said that she wanted to go with them.
• Winnie has to go home with the constable, and Mae
  must be locked up.
• Winnie was about to leave with the constable,
  when she told Angus that is was going to be okay.
• On the way to her home Winnie kept thinking that
  Mae couldnt go to the gallows, because she cant
  die.

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Chapter 21

• Winnie arrived home and her grandmother was
  babbling on, her mother was weeping, and her
  father was speechless.
• The Fosters were talking about if the man in the
  yellow suit died the woods would be theirs again.
• The constable came to the Fosters house later
  that night and told the Fosters that the man In
  the yellow suit had died, and that Mae would have
  to go to the gallows.

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Chapter 22

• Winnie gripped the bars on the fence and
  immediately thought about Mae in the jailhouse.
• Winnie saw the toad that she threw rocks at
  across the road.
• She asked her grandmother if she could have a
  bowl of water for the toad, but by the time she
  came back it was gone.
• Jesse showed up crouching on the other side of
  the fence, and Jesse gave Winnie a bottle of the
  spring water.

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Chapter 23

• Winnie hid the bottle of water in her bureau
  drawer.
• Winnie lay awake all night.
• Winnie was thinking about the conversation about
  the jail and if she was caught.
• Winnie went downstairs as the clock chimed five
  til 12.

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Chapter 24

• Winnie crept outside and found it surprisingly
  easy.
• Winnie kept thinking of an old poem Stone do not
  a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
• Winnie switched places with Mae in the jail cell.
  
• She wouldnt go asleep, in fear that she would
  kick the blanket off of her.

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Chapter 25

• The constable found Winnie in the cell.
• The constable told Winnie that she should be
  punished, but that she was to young.
• Winnie put the spring water on the toad and
  said," There! You are safe. Forever.
• The gallows fell over in the wind.

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Epilogue

• Mae and Angus Tuck returned to Treegap, and knew
  that is was different.
• There was an electrical storm in the woods about
  3 years ago and it split a tree in half.
• Angus saw Winnies tombstone and said aloud,
  Good girl.
• Mae and Angus agreed that they didnt need to
  return.

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The End