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** Magpies **
*** The Noise
***
by Bobby Mac
part 7 of 13 ( The Noise
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Max was still running around with objects in his mouth,
but the Magpies
just thought he was being his normal excitable
self. Tigger was laying
on the lawn under Granny's garden
chair, well shaded by the garden
umbrella. If anyone had gone
up close they would have seen him scratching
a little line on a
small piece of wood every time Max went past him. After
a while
Max went and laid down beside Tigger, “Good boy Max”,
he said,
go and have a long rest now because we need you to
have plenty of
energy for later”.
Now if Dora or any
of her family had taken the trouble to post lookouts
they would
have seen lots of little visitors to Granny's garden. There
were
hedgehogs, all Henry and Horace's relations, that they
could get hold of,
also Roland Rooster and Charlotte Hen, along
with Charlie Drake and Matilda
Duck's friends who were also 'to
and froing'.
They would also have noticed, if they had been
looking, that every visitor
went down behind the hen house near
the pond.
As dusk started to fall, a gentle rustling sound
could be heard in the
under growth and as the evening got
darker the rustling got louder.
Some of the younger Magpies
were getting a little nervous because they had
never heard this
noise before. Dorothy, daughter oh Arthur and Dora, was
being
teased by her two older brothers, “Dorothy is a baby, a
scared baby,
na-nana-na -na”, sang Desmond and Dillon
Magpie. Dorothy started to cry.
“Stop it !” said
Dora Magpie, “stop it at once !”. “Na-nana-na-na”,
repeated
Desmond and Dillon, ignoring their mother, and of
course the other young
Magpies had started to cry as well. “If
you don't stop right now”, said
Dora, looking at her two
sons, “I'll get your father to pull your tail
feathers
out”. Well this seemed to do the trick because they stopped
teasing.
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Copyright: Bobby Mac, June
2003
Published: www.tardemstudios.co.nz - 15th. November 2004
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