(Araminta Spookie 03) Araminta Spookie 3: Frognapped by Angie Sage

Author:Angie Sage
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Aunt Tabby does not approve of paying to see things that it is perfectly possible to see for free-like fish and turtles and frogs— and I was sure she would not approve of going to Water Wonderland. Which she didn’t.

So I asked her when she had last seen a real fish-one that was swimming around and not just lying on her plate covered in bread crumbs. Aunt Tabby sniffed and said that that was the way she preferred to see her fish, thank you very much.

That gave me an idea.You never know with Aunt Tabby-she likes eating really weird stuff. Who knows, maybe the frogs in Old Morris’s bucket were not Barry’s frogs but a coincidence-coincidences happen to detectives all the time and it is something you have to watch out for. Maybe what had really happened was that Aunt Tabby had snuck downstairs and fried up Barry’s frogs as a midnight snack. I added the fried-frog theory to my list of possibilities.

“But what about frogs in bread crumbs, Aunt Tabby?” I asked.

As a detective you have to learn to notice when people look guilty. But Aunt Tabby looked like she normally does when I say stuff-kind of amazed and irritated at the same time-and said, “Don’t be silly, Araminta.” I decided to cross the fried-frog theory right off.

Then Aunt Tabby amazed me. She said, “Very well, we’ll go to this Water Wonderland place if you really want to.” I think the shark must have made Aunt Tabby go a bit peculiar.

Wanda and I had to wear our hats. I pointed out to Wanda that they were a really good disguise, as everyone would look at the hats and no one would notice who was stuck underneath them, not even Nosy Nora.

Before long before we were all at the ticket office in the old gatehouse to Water Wonderland with Aunt Tabby saying in a loud voice, “How much?”

The man selling the tickets was none other than Old Morris. His little beady eyes stared at Aunt Tabby and he growled, “You heard, lady. Take it or leave it.”

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