Poppet by Dick King-Smith

Author:Dick King-Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241409169
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2019-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Then suddenly he felt the tickle of whiskers at the very tip of his trunk as Momo peered into it, and he gave an enormous sneeze.

Chapter Six

Elephants, like people, shut their eyes when they sneeze, and when Poppet opened his again, it was to see that the mouse had been blown head over heels by the force of the blast.

“Steady on!” cried Momo. “What are you playing at?”

“Sorry,” said Poppet. “I sneezed.”

“Oh. Well, bless you.”

“Thanks. It was your whiskers. They tickled.”

“Just testing. A mouse can go into any hole that’s wider than its whiskers.”

“And was it?”

“It would have been a very tight fit,” said Momo. “Might be possible with a full-grown elephant, but I shouldn’t have cared to try it with you, Poppet my lad. Anyway, to be quite frank, it looked pretty damp and uninviting up there, even before the sneeze. As it is, I’m soaked.”

“I’ll dry you,” said Poppet, and he pointed his trunk at the mouse and blew long slow hot breaths over him.

It was while he was doing this that he suddenly heard his mother’s voice, and a very angry voice it was. Ooma had walked up behind him, quite silently, as elephants do on their great cushioned feet, only to see her son with his trunk outstretched, the tip of it only centimetres from a mouse!

She let out a furious trumpet, and Momo vanished from sight.

“What did I tell you?” screamed Ooma. “Keep away from mice, d’you hear me? Get out of my way now and I’ll squash this one flat.”

“Oh, don’t, Mum!” cried Poppet. “He’s my friend!”

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