INTRODUCTION Allow me to introduce myself I am as you already know the Narrator And allow me to introduce you You are as I already know the Reader I knew I would see you again although of course I may never have seen you before and whoever you are I can’t actu ally see you This book is Number 2 in a series of books about the Templeton twins If you have read book Number 1 then you already know two important things a that I was forced to write the first book against my will b that I am similarly being forced to write this one even though I don’t particularly feel like it and c that there is no c because I said two things In the pages to follow you will encounter
1 ABIGAIL AND JOHN TEMPLETON A k a which means also known as the Templeton twins They are thirteen years old They are not identical twins who look very very much alike but are always of the same gender but fraternal twins They look like brother and sister which is an excellent thing because that is what they are 2 PROFESSOR ELTON TEMPLETON He is the twins father as well as a world famous inventor of clever and occasionally useful devices 3 CASSIE THE RIDICULOUS DOG Cassie is a smooth-haired fox terrier all white except for bits of black and brown here and there She has little triangular ears and a tail that is the size and shape but not the color of a carrot She is like most fox terriers insane 4 DEAN D DEAN AND DAN D DEAN These brothers as it happens are identical twins They are about thirty three years old Dean D Dean is extremely handsome handsome and wears elegant clothing Dan is not quite as introduction 9 9
handsome identical when used to describe twins means very similar but not exact copies of each other Unlike his brother Dan dresses normally whatever that means Dean as you will soon see is the more dynamic of the two which is a polite way of saying that he is the bossier one Readers of the first book will be deliriously happy to encounter these people again in this book However if they hoped because they loved the first book so very much that the entire story of this book would be the same as the story in the first they will be disappointed They’re not the only ones I’m disappointed too I would much rather copy word for word the first book than have to think of an entirely new series of words for the second book But sadly I have no choice I hope you appreciate all the trouble I’m going to thinking up and writing down all these new words But I doubt that you do This then completes the Introduction I hope you enjoyed it Although do I Really Probably not The important thing is you will by now have noticed what is not here 10 10 the templeton twins make a scene the templeton twins make a scene
AFTERWORD TO THE INTRODUCTION What Is Not Here What is not here is a summary of the things that happened in TTTHAI If you have not read the first book or if you have read it but forgotten what was in it then you do not know 1 Why Dean D Dean hates Professor Templeton 2 How the twins acquired Cassie the Ridiculous Dog 3 What the specific hobbies of the twins are 4 The details concerning the Professor’s Personal One-Man Helicopter POMH 5 All the brilliantly clever ways Abigail and John thwarted yes thwarted This is an excellent word and you should make use of it in your daily life as I do Dean D Dean and Dan D Dean 6 Who did what and said what to whom when why and how
