Floods 4 by Colin Thompson

Author:Colin Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2007-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

This bird was flying by when it saw the Hulberts and fell asleep from boredom.

‘Don’t worry, they’re all nice, Mum,’ said Ffiona. ‘They might look a bit weird – well, actually, some of them look very weird indeed – but they are really nice.’

This was said for the benefit of Mr Hulbert, who was very, very, very, very normal and tended to get quite nervous when he came into contact with anything that was the slightest bit out of the ordinary. A car painted in fluorescent pink with blue spots on the doors passed him once and it upset him for a week. Mrs Hulbert ironed all the folds out of the newspaper every morning so he wouldn’t worry about missing any words in the creases.

Ffiona’s little brother, Claude, was young enough to think everything was exciting. He had only learned to walk a few months earlier – though he was still much better at falling over than standing up. He was also just starting to speak words that made sense, and now had a vocabulary that included the words goo, poo, and Ffuffuff, which is what he called Ffiona, and ughherr, which was what he called everyone else. He was still much too young to have caught his parents’ anxiety.

‘I don’t suppose Betty’s got a younger brother or sister who could play with Claude, has she?’ said Mrs Hulbert as they walked down the road.

‘No, Betty’s the youngest,’ said Ffiona.

‘Oh well.’

But Mrs Hulbert needn’t have worried. As the Floods front gate opened itself to let the Hulberts in, a lot of things happened at once. Firstly, Mordonna released a mega squirt of relaxing-with-witches powder into the air, making sure a good shot of it went up Mr Hulbert’s nose.

Secondly, Claude saw Satanella and went racing towards her, with Mrs Hulbert trying to rescue him. As he reached Satanella, the toddler tripped on the path and fell over, but instead of crashing down on the concrete and hurting himself, he landed on a nice soft dog as Satanella threw herself underneath him.

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