Franky Furbo by William Wharton

Author:William Wharton [William Wharton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

THE STORY III

FRANKY HAD ONE BIG ADVENTURE EARLY ON THAT GAVE HIM SPECIAL POWERS TO HELP OTHER CHILDREN.

HE RECEIVED A LETTER ALL THE WAY FROM AMERICA FROM A LITTLE GIRL NAMED KATHY. IT SEEMED HER BROTHER, MATTHEW, HAD TURNED INTO A FOX AND NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE KATHY WHEN SHE TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED, NOT EVEN HER PARENTS.

OF COURSE, THIS FASCINATED FRANKY. HE SMUGGLED HIMSELF INTO AN AIRPLANE AND THROUGH CUSTOMS. HE MANAGED TO FIND THE LITTLE GIRL’S HOUSE AND WENT TO VISIT HER IN THE NIGHT, AS HE HAD WITH LUCIA. SHE SHOWED HIM HER BROTHER, MATTHEW, WHO WAS IN A BOX UNDER HER BED.

IT SEEMED THE TWO OF THEM, MATTHEW AND KATHY, HAD FOUND A SMALL CARVED STONE BOX IN AN INDIAN MOUND NEAR THEIR HOME. INSIDE THE BOX WAS A GREEN POWDER AND A SMALL CARVED STONE FOX, SMALL AS A TOOTH. MATTHEW, FOOLISHLY, PUT SOME OF THE POWDER IN WATER AND DRANK IT. HE IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO A FOX AND COULDN’T EVEN SPEAK ANYMORE.

FRANKY QUICKLY DETERMINED THAT THE POWDER WAS ‘ESSENCE OF FOX’. SOME CLEVER AND CRUEL INDIAN, YEARS AGO, HAD KILLED, BOILED AND DRIED THOUSANDS OF FOXES TO MAKE IT. ANYONE WHO SWALLOWED ANY BECAME A FOX.

FRANKY TOOK THE POWDER TO A NEARBY UNIVERSITY LABORATORY AND MANAGED TO CONCOCT ANOTHER POWDER THE OPPOSITE OF THE GREEN POWDER. THIS POWDER WAS RED. HE GAVE SOME OF IT TO MATTHEW, WHO TURNED BACK INTO A LITTLE BOY, BUT A LITTLE, LITTLE BOY, THE SIZE OF A FOX.

FRANKY WENT BACK TO THE LABORATORY AND WORKED SOME MORE UNTIL HE’D DEVELOPED A FLUID THAT WOULD MAKE THE LITTLE BOY GROW. IT WORKED. IT WORKED too WELL AND LITTLE MATTHEW BECAME big MATTHEW, MUCH BIGGER THAN HIS SISTER. IT WAS ALL SO COMPLICATED.

FRANKY WENT BACK AGAIN TO THE LABORATORY AND THIS TIME HE JUGGLED BACK AND FORTH WITH THE TWO FLUIDS, A DROP HERE, A DROP THERE, UNTIL, AFTER MUCH WORK, HE’D INVENTED A FLUID TO MAKE MATTHEW HIS OWN SIZE AGAIN.

KATHY AND MATTHEW WERE VERY HAPPY.

WHEN FRANKY LEFT, KATHY AND MATTHEW SAID HE COULD TAKE THE GREEN ‘FOX’ POWDER WITH HIM, AND FRANKY TOOK THE OTHER POWDERS AND FLUIDS HE’D INVENTED, TOO. NOW HE COULD MAKE HIMSELF INTO A HUMAN OR A FOX OR MAKE HIMSELF BIG OR SMALL. IT WAS A WHOLE NEW THING TO THINK ABOUT.

FRANKY HAD MANY OTHER ADVENTURES. BETWEEN WRITING AND SOLVING PROBLEMS ALL OVER THE WORLD, HE WAS VERY BUSY. HE KEPT IMPROVING HIS TREE AS HE SAW NEW THINGS IN HIS TRAVELS.

BUT DESPITE ALL THIS, FRANKY WAS SOMETIMES LONELY. AS TIME WENT BY, LUCIA AND DOMINIC GREW UP AND WERE OFTEN AWAY AT SCHOOL. HE

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