The Case of the Hunchback Hairdresser

like a haunted house.”

As the girls watched, an old woman slipped out of the door. She did not look like anyone that they had ever seen. She was very short.

She wore old-fashioned clothes that looked like they came from some foreign country. She had a babushka scarf tied over her head.

But mostly what the girls noticed was that she had a big hump on her back!

“Oooh, what’s wrong with her?”

Sara whispered.

“She’s a hunchback,” Aimee whispered back.

“What’s a humpback?”

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