Welcome to the Bed and Biscuit by Joan Carris

Author:Joan Carris
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780763671907
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2006-10-19T21:00:00+00:00

GABBY BARGED INTO THE KITCHEN late that evening. The minute she saw Ernest, she started in.

“I’m sick of this!” she exclaimed. “Grampa has no time for any of us anymore, and it’s all that stinky Scottie’s fault. Well, I’m here, too! And I’m a gorgeous, exotic bird from Vietnam. I can talk just like a human! That ratty little dog says nothing. Now just think about that!”

“I’m thinking,” Ernest said, backing away from her large, advancing beak.

“Loudmouth crows! I hate crows!” Gabby shrilled. She opened her beak wide and made a rude sound.

Ernest had a hunch that she would not move to the woods. After a bit he said, “I thought of something a while ago.”

“It had better be good!”

“Well . . . I was thinking back to when I came here. Grampa wrapped me in a blanket and put me in a basket by the stove. He held me and fed me every few hours. AnnaLee McBroom fed me, too.”

“Don’t lecture me!”

“I was just remembering what happens with babies,” he said mildly.

“I was a baby here, too! The only baby. Grampa was all mine for ten years! Then you came . . . and Milly . . . and now another one! Where will it end?” She gestured with one wing and nearly fell over.

Righting herself, Gabby said, “Where’s Milly?”

Ernest inclined his head toward the stove.

Gabby gazed into the dark stove corner. “You know this is silly,” she began.

Ernest interrupted quickly. “Milly is thinking, Gabby. We can count on her to use her head. Let’s go to sleep now. It’s late.”

“Bossiest, most know-it-all pig I ever met,” Gabby muttered. But she settled down on his blankets. In time, comforted by the place and by each other, they slept.

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