Thorfinn and the Disgusting Feast by David MacPhail

Author:David MacPhail
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782502326
Publisher: Floris Books

“A corset, ha!” Olaf fell about laughing. “He looks like a whale!”

Oswald returned, flinging his spare underpants at Thorfinn. They were practically the size of a tablecloth. Harek picked them up between his thumb and forefinger. “EEEWW!”

“They’re clean!” said Oswald.

Harek began to stuff the underpants in the hole. The water slowed to a trickle.

Gertrude returned with her cake. “There you go me dears. Have a mouthful of sticky ants.”

“Thank you,” said Thorfinn. She was horrified to see him hand it to Harek, who smeared it into the gap. The water almost stopped altogether.

“Now we just need to hammer it in a bit,” said Harek. “Except we don’t have a hammer.”

“No problem,” said Thorfinn. He turned to Velda. “My dear old pal, would you be so good as to put your excellent kicking into practice?”

Velda rolled up her sleeves. “You betya. Watch this.” She delivered a mighty kick against the hull.

“HI-YAAA!”

Then another, and another. It wasn’t long before the underpants and the sticky ant pie had been squashed flat and the hole sealed for good.

“Excellent work,” said Thorfinn. “Now we’ll nail it all in place using my friend Grut’s corset.” He handed it to Harek, who stretched it out to its tightest point and bashed nails in with an axe handle to pin it to the hull.

“All we need to do now is bail out the water,” said Grut. “Are there any buckets left on board?”

“Oh, I suppose we could always use this one I’m sitting on,” sighed Grimm. “But what’s the point?”

“Shut up and hand me the bucket,” said Harek.

“Well done, everyone,” said Thorfinn. “We’re saved!”

“HUZZAH!” they all cried, except for Olaf, who for once had nothing to say.

They gazed out at the horizon, wondering if the waves would guide them to the famous fishing grounds in the far west ocean.

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