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= Where's the Tree? = It was a sunny Christmas Eve in Quakertown when the famous giant Quakertown tree was stolen. "Where has the Christmas tree gone?" Thomas the mayor asked. That day went on without anyone noticing where that tree had gone. "Call Sean your best detective," Jared Thomas' son suggested. When Sean got the call he started looking for clues right away. "Hmmm," he said when picked up the mint scent of the Quakertown Christmas tree. As he followed the trail, Sean got to a spot of land where dirt and that's when Sean saw the tire marks of something, something like a car, a truck something that has four wheels. A pick-up truck probably. The more important clue was the pine needles following the tire marks with the mint scent following behind the trail of pine needles. It was getting closer to noon and and Sean knew scents didn't last long and this scent was already getting stale. Sean followed the scent trail for an hour with the pine needles and the stale mint scent until he got to a fork. The minty scent went towards the East and the pine needles went to the West. (But when you looked at the trail closely it curved back to the North.) If there was a theif, he must have put the fake scent as a trick, Sean thought. So he took the reasonable route. While Sean was walking down the pine needle trail Sean thought: The theif should have put the curve North a little later because Sean could see clearely how the trail went back North. So the criminal wanted to go back North! Sean knew then who his suspects on his suspect list were: Trevor because this trail is leading to his house and because he has this tree at his house that he says that no one can see because it's to great. Or it could be Justin the Christmas tree decor store owner because he now owns a Christmas tree shop and people talking about how they're going there for Christmas this year because he has a tree the same size as the Great tree and because the Great tree was stolen. Sean went over to Trevors house and the second before Sean stepped up to the door to ring the doorbell Sean looked through the peephole. Trevor was on top of his tree. Then Trevor opened the door and said he didn't take the tree and let Sean check his house for clues. No mint scent and some pine needles were darker than others like the Great tree wasn't like. "Bye", Sean said to Trevor. Sean headed to Justin's tree shop. Sean had to pay regular addmission and since the people at the gates knew Sean was a detective they made Sean pay an extra 10$. Sean could smell the minty scent when Sean stepped next to a giant tree. There were still pieces for a Quakertown dance: The Nut Cracker still stuck in from when they put the tree up. That tree was the tree he'd been looking for. Soon after that Justin was taken to jail for five days.