The Chicken Gave It To Me by Anne Fine

Author:Anne Fine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Egmont
Published: 2011-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

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Green sky. Green earth. Green wind. Green sand.

Take my advice. Don’t ever stow away in a spaceship. You’ll have the worst time ever.

They go faster than light. The soothing hum of the engines keeps lulling you off into daydreams. And when you try and distract yourself by peering out of the porthole, all you can see is crazy glittering spirals of shooting stars, blazing fireballs, bright spinning planets and shimmering flares of comet tails.

I nearly died of boredom. Honestly. By the time we came down (or up, or in, or over – hard to tell which), I was almost ready to give myself up, and hope they were all still sick of eating chicken.

But the planet itself was wonderful. It was green. Green sky. Green earth. Green wind. Green sand. (We landed on the beach.) Not being green, I scuttled off as fast as I could, into the undergrowth. That was green too. So were the seeds and roots. So were the grubs. And just in case you never get the chance to eat a green grub, I’ll tell you now, they are the best. Mmmmmmmmmm! Skin just a little bit crunchy, like a thin crust. And inside – so creamy and rich! Beak-smacking good!

And they’re not very bright. I caught forty.

Then it was time to get on with the job.

I set off down the green road. I’d only walked round a couple of bends before I came across a huge advertisement set up to catch the eye of anyone walking the same way as I was.

I stared in horror. I’d picked up enough of the language on the trip to know exactly what it said:

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