The reporter’s name was Miles Umlatt. He was thin and blotchy, and his nose was scuffed up like an old shoe. He asked what grade I was in, did I own a dog, he was pretending to be nice, but he was dying to get to the juicy parts.

Consider the entire boxed passage above a direct quotation. The passage is not

correctly punctuated, and it contains spelling errors. Rewrite the above boxed

quotation with correct quotation marks, spelling.