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** Cuffed And Stuffed **
*** The
Caravan ***
by Bobby Mac
part 3 of 14 (the
caravan)
Douglas ran indoors and told Nan and granddad
about old No.742. Granddad
immediately phoned the police with
the information.
Sergeant Brett was very interested and said he
would check at the station
about No.742, and if it had been
stolen, he would want to talk with the children
about
descriptions of the occupants, to make sure it was the same men.
And did
the children see which way it went after it had got to
the crossroads.
Douglas ran back to the gate to tell Karl and
Alicia what was going on and to
ask if they had got a
description for Sergeant Brett and did they see which way
it
went.
Soon they saw the police car with Sergeant Brett, as he
drove into the drive
and got out to talk to the
children.
"Local knowledge and three clever kids, we can't
lose can we ?", he said, relaying
the information back to
the station on his radio.
Just then there was a noise that made
them all look up, it was a fire engine siren
again. "It's
them!!", yelled Alicia, Karl, and Douglas altogether, and
sure enough,
coming back down the road was old No.742.
They
had been around in a circle, the children laughed and waved as the
truck went
past, and the robbers waved back, they didn't see
the police car until Sergeant
Brett backed out of the drive and
was behind them sounding his siren and flashing
his lights.
The
crooks raced down the road, No.742 going at top speed, they pulled
out to
overtake a cattle truck causing an oncoming caravan to
run off the road.
Sergeant Brett had to stop and make sure no
one was hurt, and by the time he got
back to his car, the fire
truck was out of sight. So he asked on the radio for
volunteers
to help look for the fire truck. The off duty fire crew, police
officers,
farmers, the local cricket and rugby teams, all spent
ages looking in barns and sheds.
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Copyright:
Bobby Mac, October 2003
Published: www.tardemstudios.co.nz -
22nd. February 2004
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