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** Magpies **
*** The New
Comers ***
by Bobby Mac
part 1 of 13 ( the new comers
)
In the North Island of New Zealand, near Mount Ruapehu,
was a small town.
One of the new families in the town was the
Magpie family. They were staying
with relatives but it was very
crowded, so they were looking for somewhere else to
build a
home. Somewhere where there was a good supply of food and
water.
Mr. Arthur Magpie and his brother flew around
searching.
On the second day they saw a lot of small birds
going towards one of the older houses,
nestled in an overgrown
garden. Mr. Magpie and his brother watched from a nearby
tree
as the smaller birds sat on fences and surrounding trees and some
of the
younger ones sang.
They could hardly believe what
they saw. Out from the tumbled down old house, came a
little
old lady and she started spreading food on a big old kitchen
table. There was at least
three different kinds of bread that
Mr. Magpie counted and lovely big juicy raisins,
also sesame
seeds and a big bowl of fresh water.
"Fantastic",
said Mr. Magpie, "that's food and water, all we need now is
somewhere,
oh yes, there's a big Oak tree at the front of the
house and a big Australian Gum
on one side, and an assortment
of evergreen trees, bingo !!, problem solved."
They
hurried back full of excitement to tell all of the relatives about
the great find.
After lunch all the Magpies flew over the old
house and garden. They visited the Oak tree
and all the Mrs.
Magpies were very impressed.
Soon everyone had chosen the site
for their new homes but, the younger members of the
family were
not so pleased. They had heard there was going to be lots of food
and there
was nothing on the big old table now except half a
bowl of warm water. They arranged
to come back the next day to
start building the new homes, and even the youngsters
said they
would come and help, if there was going to be food.
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Copyright: Bobby Mac, June 2003
Published:
www.tardemstudios.co.nz - 26th. April 2004
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