Once
upon a time there were a brother and sister called Richard and Jo. They had a
teddy-dog called Fudge. He wasn’t a real dog, but he wasn’t a real teddy
either, because he looked like a dog, not a bear.
Fudge slept most nights on the pillow next to Richard or Jo. But one morning
when Richard woke up, he rolled over and saw that Fudge was not there. Where
had he gone? They told their mum and
Dad,
but they were not interested, because their car had disappeared in the night as
well, and they were too busy to think about Fudge. ‘My car’, dad was saying,
‘the biggest best bluest car in the street, and it has gone’ Richard and Jo had
to look for Fudge on their own.
Do you
know what had happened? In the night, Fudge had got up, taken the keys of the
car, and driven it away. Because he wasn’t
used
to driving, he had bashed the beautiful blue car into the hedges and against the
edges of the road. He had driven to his friend’s house, and collected her from
her kennel, and together they had driven past the park, on and on, all the way
to the seaside.
Fudge
and his friend Joan had stayed at the seaside all day. They had a proper
holiday, playing in the sand, eating ice-cream, building sandcastles, buying
bones, candyfloss, sticks of rock. They played with a beach ball, chasing and
catching, and they collected lots of coins that they found in the sand in their
big bucket. Fudge and Joan had a fantastic day. At the end of the day, they
drove all the
way
back home. Fudge dropped Joan off back at her kennel, and then sneaked back
into the house.
All
day, Jo and Richard had been looking for Fudge, while their Mum and Dad looked
for the car. In the end, they had all gone sadly to bed. But in the morning
when Richard and Jo woke up, they looked sadly over at the pillow where Fudge
had been, and……there he was.
Then
they looked out of the window, and there was the blue car. Bashed a bit, but
back. Inside the car was a bucket, with enough money in it to pay for the
bumps. Everyone was so pleased, they drank a bottle of milk and cheered. But
nobody knew what had really happened….nobody except Joan and Fudge…..and you.
The End
