Pete and the Five-A-Side Vampires by Malachy Doyle

Author:Malachy Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 111-1-11-111111-1
Publisher: Firefly Press Limited
Published: 2014-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

‘OK,’ said Pete, when they were back once more in the safety of the shed. ‘I think that’s quite enough badness for one night.’

‘You’re right,’ said the bwca. ‘I’m off back down to my little underground home. I’ll see you two again sometime, maybe. And don’t forget…’ he said, just before he slipped down between the floorboards, taking with him his lamps and his hammers and any sign that he’d been there. ‘We may be small, us bwcas, but we know how to look after ourselves. So if you ever hear anyone laughing at us, let me know!’

‘What would you do?’ asked Pete.

‘I’d wait till it was dark,’ said the little bwca man. ‘And then I’d be up there to tap nails through the soles of their shoes, so that when they put them on in the morning, they’d stab holes in every single one of their little tootsies!’

‘Oh,’ said Pete.

‘And if they were doing nasties to other people as well as mocking us bwcas, I’d lead them up a narrow path to the edge of a cliff in the middle of the night, then blow out the lamp and leave them there…’

‘Well, we’d never say a bad word against you, would we, Blob?’ said Pete. ‘We won’t let anyone else do it, either.’

And Blob said nothing, because bassets can’t talk.

But he beat his tail on the floorboards, to show how much he agreed. Waggity-wag. Woof woof.

‘And if they were extra-specially nasty, as well as trying to make fun of us,’ said the little bwca man, ‘then I’d grab them by the nose and banish them and their family to the banks of the Red Sea for fourteen generations!’

‘Wow!’ said Pete. ‘You don’t mess with the bwca!’

‘Quite right,’ said the little miner. ‘Because when you’re good, we’re very very good in return. But when you’re bad…’ he said, his eyes darting from Pete to Blob and back again, ‘we’re HORRID!’

And with that and a giggle, he was gone.

‘Phew!’ said Pete. ‘Is it just me, Blob, or is that little fellow a bit scary? I mean, it just goes to show, you don’t have to be big to be bad!’

And Blob? Well, Blob agreed.

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