Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls 04 An Upside-down Boy and Other Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls by Christopher Milne

Author:Christopher Milne [Milne, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Egmont
Published: 2011-04-14T21:00:00+00:00

Fierce Pierce was the first one to notice that something was going on.

‘What do you reckon that loser Kenny’s doing in his backyard?’ he asked his mate Fridge. ‘Every morning when I go past on the way to school, there’s more dirt. In a pile. Heaps of it.’

‘A swimming pool?’ wondered Fridge.

Fierce thought not. Surely they’d get a bulldozer or something for that.

‘Perhaps he’s burying food?’ suggested Fridge. From a stupid suggestion like that, you can probably guess how Fridge got his name. Fierce didn’t even bother to answer.

So, the very next morning Fierce went straight up to Kenny and said, ‘Hey loser, what’s with all the dirt?’

‘Oh, nothing,’ said little Kenny.

Kenny would have gladly told Fierce, but he thought Fierce might laugh. You see, Kenny was building the most excellent underground cubby house the world had ever seen — for himself and some pretend friends. But how do you admit you’re so lonely you have to have pretend friends?

‘What do you mean, nothing?’ said Fierce.

Kenny could tell Fierce was going to punch him out if he didn’t give a good answer. So he lied. ‘Mum’s making me do it. For pocket money. She’s going to plant some trees.’

Fierce looked hard at Kenny. Fierce knew how cruel parents could be — making you work for pocket money — but he wasn’t sure if he believed Kenny or not. But the bell went, so Kenny got away with it. For the time being.

You should have seen the cubby. It started with a secret entrance hidden behind some bushes and then went straight down into a big dark room. Kenny had candles burning in the corners.

Kenny’s dad had shown him how to build safe cubbies, and somehow every spadeful of dirt, every heavy bucketful tipped on the pile, was for his dad. Maybe one day Dad would come to visit again and Kenny could show him what a good job he’d done.

From the main dark room, two tunnels headed off in different directions. If you weren’t a member of the cubby club, you wouldn’t know which was the right one and that was something that definitely needed to be known. One went to the secret chamber, and the other to a hole full of the worst, slimiest, stinkiest, pooiest water you could ever imagine.

‘Boof’s hole,’ Kenny called it. ‘Boof’s bones and business hole’ would have been a better description. Kenny didn’t just put Boof’s bones there, though. He swapped them for big bits of spare steak from the fridge. The business came free of charge.

From the secret chamber, there were two more tunnels. One led to the food and drinks cave, and the other to a fantastic underground maze.

If you could find your way through the maze — and only cubby members would know how — you finally reached the most secret of secret places. The star chamber.

Kenny would never tell what was in the star chamber, but to have built such an excellent maze it must have been something good. Really good.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.