A Very Good Idea by M.C. Badger

Author:M.C. Badger
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2014-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

ON THE OTHER SIDE of the window was a very tall tree. The Tinklers Three often climbed it. But they had never climbed it by going out the window. Marcus got his tin-can stilts out again and clumped across to the window. Mila clumped up beside him. They looked out at the tree.

‘If we climb to the top we can get onto the roof of that building,’ Mila said, pointing to a building just behind the tree. ‘Then we will be well on our way.’

‘But how do we get to the tree?’ asked Marcus.

‘What about if we use this?’ said Mila. Out of her backpack she pulled a bow and arrow with a rope attached to the end. This was something Marcus had invented to collect the Tinklers’ mail. The postman just needed to stand on the street holding out the letters. Then Marcus could shoot an arrow out the window, hit the letters and pull them back up to the thirty-third floor. (But, so far, the postman had not agreed to this.)

‘We can shoot the arrow across to the tree and then walk across the rope. Just pretend the rope is a tightrope,’ said Mila. ‘Unless you’re too scared?’

Marcus shook his head. ‘Of course I’m not too scared!’ he said. ‘I’m a Tinkler, after all.’

Here is a secret: Marcus WAS scared.

But he was not going to tell Mila that!

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