____ breakfast, Holden goes for a walk. He thinks about the ____ of the nuns and can’t imagine anyone he knows ____ so generous and giving. He ____ down Broadway to buy a record called “Little Shirley Beans” for Phoebe. He likes the record because, ____ it is for children, it is sung by a black blues singer who ____ it sound raunchy, not cute. He thinks about Phoebe, ____ he considers to be a wonderful girl ____, although she’s only ten, she ____ understands what Holden means when he talks to her. He sees an oblivious little boy walking in the street, singing, “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.” The innocence of the scene cheers him ____, and he decides to call Jane. ____, he ____ up when her mother answers the phone. In preparation ____ his date with Sally, he buys theater tickets ____ a show called “I Know My Love,” ____ stars the Lunts. Holden wants to see Phoebe, and he goes to look for her in the park ____ he remembers that she often roller-skates ____ on Sundays. He meets a girl who knows Phoebe. ____ first, she tells him that his sister is ____ a school trip to the Museum of Natural History, but then she remembers that the trip was the ____ day. ____, Holden walks to the museum, remembering his own class trips. He focuses on the ____ life is frozen in the museum’s exhibits: models of Eskimos and Indians stand as ____ petrified and birds hang from the ceiling, ____ in mid-flight. He remarks that ____ time he went to the museum, he felt that he had changed, ____ the museum had stayed exactly the same.

Chapter 16 The CATCHER

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