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第一篇

Walrus Joins In

1

What will Walrus do?

Everyone at the North Pole was very excited. There was going to be a

show and ANYONE could be in it.

‘I will do skating,’ said Arctic Fox. ‘I’m good at that!’

‘I’ll do tumbling,’ said Polar Bear. ‘No one tumbles quite like

me!’

‘I’ll do singing,’ said Seal. ‘Everyone says I have a very fine

voice!’

‘Then I’ll do diving,’ said Whale. ‘I won a prize for diving at

school, you know!’

They all looked at Walrus. ‘What will YOU do?’ they asked.

But Walrus was not good at anything.

He wasn’t good at skating, and he wasn’t good at tumbling.

He was terrible at singing, and when he tried to dive, he always got

water up his nose.

He sat and chewed his whiskers sadly.

‘Never mind,’ said Arctic Fox. ‘You can watch us.’

Arctic Fox and Polar Bear and Seal and Whale practised hard for the

big show.

Walrus hid behind a snowdrift and watched, and chewed his whiskers.

He wished he was good at something.

2

The big night

At last, the big night arrived. Everyone sat down and waited for the

show to begin. Walrus sat in the front row. He was very excited.

Fox came onto the ice and bowed. Everyone cheered.

Then Fox began to skate. Fox skated forwards and backwards and

sideways. She skated in perfect circles and figures of eight. She was

elegant and amazing!

Walrus watched and he loved what he saw. Fox made it all look so

easy.

Walrus was sure that if he really tried he could skate just like Fox.

He couldn’t stop himself. He just had to leap onto the ice and join

in with Fox. “I can skate,” he cried. “Look at me!”

But Walrus couldn’t skate at all. He could only trip up and fa

ll

over.

He bumped into Fox, and Fox went flat on her face. FLOMP!

Fox was very upset. “Walrus has RUINED my act,” she wailed.

Next, it was Polar Bear’s turn. He rolled out across the ice like a

big, white snowball. Everyone clapped wildly.

Then Polar Bear began to tumble. He did jumps and spins and

somersaults, and stood on his head.

Walrus watched and he loved what he saw. Polar Bear made it all look

such fun. Walrus was sure that this time, if he really tried, he could

tumble just like Polar Bear.

All of a sudden, Walrus just couldn’t stop himself, and he leaped

onto the ice.

“I can tumble too,” he cried. “Look at me!”

But Walrus couldn’t tumble at all. He could only trip up and fall

over. He tripped up Polar Bear, who came down with a WALLOP!

Of course, Polar Bear was pretty angry. “Walrus has RUINED my

act,” he wailed.

3

From bad to worse

It was Seal’s turn next. She gave Walrus a don’t

-you- dare stare,

and then she started to sing:

“O, how many heart rejoices when I see the Norther

n Lights.

My ear is filled with voices sweetly singing in the night!”

Walrus listened. What a beautiful song! Surely if he really tried,

he could sing as beautifully as Seal? Oh, dear. Walrus just couldn’t

stop himself again.

“I know that song,” he cried. “I can sing it too!”

He leaped up and started singing along with Seal.

But Walrus couldn’t sing! He sounded terrible. In fact, he sounded

like a rusty old bucket.

Seal stopped singing and burst into floods of tears.

“Walrus has RUINED my song,” she wailed.

Wale was last. He was pretty certain that Walrus could not ruin his

act.

Whale leaped high out of the water. Then he fell back with an

enormous splash!

Walrus watched. He wished that he could dive like that. His flippers

began to twitch, and his whiskers bristled with excitement. He tried and

tried his very best not to join in.

But then he had a brilliant idea.

“I’ll hold my nose when I dive,” he thought. “Then the water

won’t go up it!”

Walrus just couldn’t stop himself. He

had to join in.

“Everybody, look at me!” he cried, as he leaped into the water.

“I can dive too!”

But just at that moment, Whale was getting ready to spout a big jet

of water.

WHOOSH!

Whale spouted Walrus high into the air!

Everyone was watching Walrus now. They clapped and cheered as Walrus

landed back in the sea with a SPLOSH!

Whale was furious. “You are a meddling, incompetent BUFFOON!” he

roared. “You have RUINED my act. Now GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!”

Whale was pretty scary when he was angry. Walrus turned tail and

fled. He hid behind a snowdrift, feeling sad and very sorry.

4

The show will go on!

The show was over. Fox and Polar Bear and Seal and Whale stood in a

line, blushing and wishing that Walrus had not ruined everything.

But everyone was cheering like mad.

“Well done, Polar Bear, well done, Seal! Well done, Fox and

Whale!” they shouted. “But where’s the clown? Why isn’t he here?

Where’s Walrus?”

Behind is snowdrift, Walrus heard the cheers. Were they really

cheering for him, too?

Yes! They were!

He shuffled up to Fox and Polar Bear and Seal And Whale.

“I’m very sorry,” he said.

“So you should be,” said Fox.

“At least everyone thought you were part of the show,” said Polar

Bear.

“I suppose,” said Seal, “if Walrus was re

ally part of our next

show, it couldn’t be any worse.”

Walrus was overjoyed. “Me?” he cried. “Truly? Can I be part of

the show? Can I join in next time?”

“Yes,” said Whale. “It will be

a lot safer that way. You can be the clown. As long as you do it

properly.”

Walrus practiced hard and became a very good clown indeed. Now he is

so good that Fox, Polar Bear, Seal and Whale are glad he is taking part.

Sometimes, when Walrus is clowning around, they really just can’t

stop themselves. They have to join in too!

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第二篇

Noisy Neighbours

1

Mr Flinch

In a grim, grey house in a grim, grey town lived an unhappy man.

It was not his grey house that made Mr Flinch unhappy. It was not

that he was poor, because he was not. Mr Flinch was a miser. He never

gave away a penny. ( He never gave away a smile either. ) He was a mean

and miserable man.

Mr Flinch was miserable because of his neighbours.

On one side of Mr Flinch’s grim, grey house stood a jolly red one.

It belonged to Carl Clutch who mended cars.

Carl loved cars

–

and motorbikes and vans and lorries. Every

morning, Mr Flinch woke up to hear hammers banging, spanners clanging

and engines revving. The whole street shook with the noise.

On the other side, in a bright blue house, lived a music teacher

called Poppy Plink. Each morning, Poppy sat down and played grand tunes

on her grand piano. After breakfast, her students started to arrive.

Violins screeched, drums thundered and bassoons bellowed. Mr Flinch

shut his window, but the noise still came through the wall. Brum

–

brum,

tootle

–

toot, bang! His whole house shook and shivered.

He put his fingers in his ears.

He rapped on the wall … but his neighbours did not hear.

They were far too happy. They were mending cars and making music,

and they loved their work.

Brum

–

brum, tootle

–

toot, bang!

Mr Flinch rap rapped until he made holes in his wallpaper. It did no

good.

Mr Flinch locked himself in a cupboard. He wound old towels round

his head.

He wrote angry letters, but tore them all up. ‘

Stamps cost far too

much money!’ he said.

Even in bed, he wore a hat to keep out the noise.

But the cars still revved and the music still jangled.

Mr Flinch was the grey filling in a noise sandwich.

‘This can’t go on,’ Flinch thought to himself. He

even shouted it

out loud:

2

Nasty Tricks

Mr Flinch went next door to Carl’s house. Carl was mending cars. It

was easy to sneak into his kitchen and put a dead rat in the fridge.

‘That will get rid of him!’ said Flinch, and smiled a nasty smile.

‘Nobody wants to live in a house with rats!’

At midnight, Mr Flinch climbed on to his roof and

–

carefully,

carefully

–

crawled across the tiles. He put his head down Poppy’s

chimney and gave a long, loud, ‘Hooowooowoooo!’

‘That will get ride of her,’ he said with a grim grin. ‘Nobody

wants to live in a house with ghosts!’

Then he climbed back into bed.

Next morning, Mr Flinch woke to a HUGE noise. Cars and lorries were

stopping outside. He looked out of his window.

Carl was sitting outside in the rood, with a table, a kettle, a loaf

of bread and a bottle of tomato sauce.

Carl called to Mr Flinch, ‘Can’t use my kitchen today! Rays, urgh!

My mum is cleaning up. She told me to eat my breakfast outside. That’s

how I got this great idea! Take

–

away breakfast! Drivers can stop here

and buy breakfast.’

Just then, Poppy Plink came running out of her blue front door. ‘Oh,

Mr Flinch! Oh, Carl! Guess what happened last night!’

‘I give up,’ said Mr Flinch, with a sumg smirk. ‘Do tell.’

Poppy beamed wit

h joy. ‘Last night, angles sang down my chimney!

They did, I promise!’ She frowned. ‘But the music wasn’t very good! I

think they want some new songs to sing! I’m sure they want me to write

them, and I shall! Oh I shall!’

She did.

Poppy still had to teach music all day.

But at night she wrote angle music. She made it nice and loud, with

lots of cymbals and trumpets.

It was all too much for Mr Flinch.

3

Mr Flinch has a Plan

Mr Flinch went next door to Carl’s house.

He showed Carl a fistful of mo

ney. ‘The day you move house, all

this is yours!’ he said.

‘Anything you say, chief,’ said Carl, wiping his dirty hands on a

rag.

‘As long as I can mend cars, I’ll be happy anywhere.’ Carl went

on, ‘I’ll move out as soon as I can sell the house!’

Nex

t, Mr Flinch went to Poppy’s house and offered her a hatful of

money. ‘The day you move house, all this is yours!’ he said.

‘Of course! If that is what you want, dear heart! Cried Poppy.

She had never seen so much money in her life. ‘As long as I have

my

music, I can be happy anywhere! I will move out just as soon as I can

sell my little house!’

Mr Flinch went home a happy man

–

well, as happy as a man like Mr

Flinch can ever be.

He felt in his empty pockets and gulped. ‘All that money gone! Ah,

but

soon those noisy neighbours will be gone, too!’

In a few days, Mr Flinch’s neighbours had sold up their houses.

Now, at last, he would have peace and quiet

–

nothing but the noise

of mice scratching in the empty cellar.

4 Moving Day

Mr Flinch watched as Poppy Plink moved out. Bo-jangle went the piano

as she pushed and bumped it down the steps.

‘Going already are you, you pest?’ he mutted. ‘I pity the person

who has to live next door to you!’

Seeing him, Poppy waved up at the window.

‘Such luck, Mr Flinch!’ she called. ‘Fancy! A few days ago, I met

someone who wants to move house too! We agreed to swap houses!’

Just then, Carl came out of his front door carrying two heavy tool

boxes. He saw Poppy struggling with a harp and went to help her

. ‘All

set, Poppy? he said.

‘All set, Carl! Isn’t this fun!’ She replied.

Then Carl moved into Poppy’s bright house and Poppy moved into

Carl’s jolly red one.

They helped each other to carry the big things, like tables and

sofas.

Then Carl had a house- warming party. He and Poppy sang, because they

were so happy: ‘There’s no place like home!’

Mr Flinch heard it right through the wall of his house … even

inside his cupboard, even with a towel round his head.

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第三篇

Princess Pip’s Holiday

1 Ready to go

Everyone in Princess Pip’s castle was very busy. The King was

polishing his money, the Queen was choosing sun hats, and the maids were

running around with piles of vests.

“ Can I take Dobbin on holiday?”asked Princess Pip.

“I’m afraid there won’t

be room for a pony on the coach ,”said

the Queen.

“Oh, ”said the Princess Pip. “Can Amanda and Bert come,then?”

“There ‘s no room for snakes,”said the King, “not even pet

ones.”

Princess Pip scowled . “This holiday is going to be BORING,” she

said.

They went on holiday in their best gold coach.

“Wave to all the people, dear,” said the Queen.

Princess Pip folded her arms . “ I ‘m on holiday,” she said.

“Are we nearly there yet?”

“We won’t be there for a long time,” said the Queen firmly .

It did take a long time to get to the seaside . The coach got very

hot, and Princess Pip didn’t feel very well.

“Here we are,at last!” said the King happily.

“But it’s a castle!” said Princess Pip. “Just like ’s BORING.”

2 Just like home

There was a girl waiting by the castle door.

“This is Daisy,”said the Queen. “She is going to look after

you,Pip.”

Daisy showed Princess Pip her room.

“I don’t want a four

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poster bed!” said Princess Pip. “That’s

just like home.”

“You can sleep on my straw mattress , then,” said Daisy. “ I’ll

have the bed.”

“Oh, all right.”said Princess Pip.

That evening there was a banquet and it went on for hours.

“More sprouts?”asked the King happily.

This is BORING,”said the Princess Pip.

“Nonsense(胡说),dear,”said the Queen. “It can’t be boring.

We’re on holiday!”

“ I WANT TO GO HOME!” said Princess Pip, the next day. She had

been walking round the castle walls all morning and she hadn’t found

anything to do.

“But we’re having a wonderful time,” said the Queen,f

rom her sun

chair.

“Just look at the way my money shines in the sun,” said the King.

“Wonderful!”

“ But it’s BORING!” said Princess Pip.

“Why don’t you go and talk to Daisy?” suggested the Queen.

Princess Pip stomped off.

“That does it,” she said

to Daisy. “I WANT TO GO HOME!”

3 The road home

“If you stayed here a bit longer,you might start liking the

seaside,” said Daisy.

But Princess Pip wasn’t listening. She was putting all her

important things in her suitcase.

“I think we’ll have to take some things out,”said Daisy.

Daisy found them both backpacks, and they set out for home.

Princess Pip and Daisy went across the drawbridge and along the road.

It was very hot.

“Let’s have a nice,cool snack,”said Daisy.

So they got some fish sticks from a stall.

“These aren’t bad,” admitted Princess Pip.

“They taste best by the seaside,” said Daisy. “ I’ll show you

where the fish come from, if you like.”

They went down some stone steps to a place where the sea swished

backwards and forwards and the ground looked as if it was made of gold.

“Look in these pools,” said Daisy.

The fish were hard to catch.

”You could take your stockings off,” said Daisy, “and use them

for nets.”

It was nice without shoes and stockings on. It was even nicer once

Princess Pip had taken off her coat and crown.

The fish looked very cross at being caught

，

so Princess Pip let

them go.

“It’s not too bad here,” said Princess Pip,at last. “ I want to

stay here all the time.”

“Let’s build a sandcastle, then,”

said Daisy.

“A sand HOUSE,” said Princess Pip.

It was hard work, but they built a huge house, with a moat all

around.

Soon the sea came in and filled the moat.

“That’s just right.”said Princess Pip. “Make it stop coming in

now,Daisy.”

But the sea kept on coming in......

...... and soon it had washed their house FLAT.

“ We built our house too close to the sea,”said Daisy, sadly.

“STUPID SEA!”shouted Princess Pip. “STUPID SEASIDE! I WANT TO GO

HOME!”

4 Riding the dragon

Princess Pip and Daisy put on their shoes and picked up their

backpacks.

“I’m tired,”said Princess Pip, very soon. “ I want to ride

Dobbin. Are we nearly home, yet?”

“Why don’t you ride one of the horses on that merry

-go-

round?”

suggested Daisy.

“Oh, no,”said Princess Pip. “ I’m going to ride that dragon.”

The dragon went very fast, and there was lots of exciting music--but

then it all stopped. Everyone got off.

“But....we’re still here!” said Princess Pip, crossly, as she got

off ,too.

“At least it wasn’t boring,” said Daisy.

“I WANT TO GO HOME!” shouted Princess Pip.

“At least it was fun,” said Daisy. “Everything is fun here

because it’s a FUN

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fair.”

Princess Pip sniffed. “ What’s fun about it?” she asked.

“I’ll show you,” said Daisy.

They went down the roller coaster.

Then they went UP and UP and ....DOWN again.

“AARRRRGH!” yelled Princess Pip and Daisy.

“Let’s go on it again,” said Princess Pip.

“ Tomorrow, perhaps,” said Daisy, who had gone very pale.

“BUT I WANT...” began Princess Pip.

“Hello!” said a voice.

It was the King. The Queen was with him.

“Where’s Princess Pip?” the King asked Daisy.

“Here !” said Princess Pip.

The King and the Queen stared at her.

“You can’t be Pip!” the Queen gasped. “You’re all dirty,and you

have

no stockings!”

“But I am!” said Princess Pip, and put on her crown to prove it.

“Look! It’s me, and I’ve found a place where the ground is made of

gold!Come and see.”

Daisy and Princess Pip showed them the beach.

“ Good heavens!”said the King. “How wonderful! It’s just the

color of money.”

“What a perfect place for my sun chair,”said the Queen.

The beach was a perfect place for picnics and games, and races, too.

Everyone loved it.

Then one day the King said: “ What a pity we have to go home

tom

orrow.”

Princess Pip scowled, and she said...

“I don’t want to go home!!!”

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第四篇

Oh, otto!

Something important

The children in Class Four were busy working

Then their teacher, Miss Underwood, said: ‘I have something very

important to tell you.’

She smile

d and said: ‘A new boy is coming to our class. His name is

Otto and he comes from far, far away. In fact, he comes from outer

space…’

( this is Otto’s first day at earth school. Here he is…)

The door opened and a boy came in. he looked just like the other

children-but he was a different colour. he was green.

Miss Underwood told Otto to sit with Jo and Charlie and Josh. Then she

looked at Jo and added, ‘I want you to take care of our new boy and

give him a hand if he needs it.’

‘please, Miss,’ said Otto. ‘I’m not NEW. I’m seven and a half. And

I don’t already. Look!’

‘Oh, Otto!’ Miss Underwood smiled. ‘just sit down and be a dear.’

Otto sat down.

Then he said, ‘I don’t think I can be a deer…but I can quack like a

duck.’

He flapped his arms, like wings, and we

nt: ‘Quack! Quack! Quack!’

Charlie joined in: ‘Quack! QUACK! QUACK!’

Miss Underwood smiled at Otto. ‘No quacking n class!’ she said.

Then she frowned at Charlie. ‘Charlie!’ she said. ‘you know better

than that! Get on with your work.’

‘It’s not fair!’ Charlie grumbled. ‘I get into trouble and that new

boy doesn’t!’

That’s when Charlie decided he didn’t like Otto. He didn’t like him

one bit.

Charlie is cross

Otto made a lot of mistakes.

Charlie leaned back on his chair. Otto tried to do the same thing. But

he fell down…

…and so did all the paints.

Now Charlie was green too-

and he wasn’t happy about it.

Charlie got crosser and crosser and crosser.

At playtime, when Otto was in the playground, Charlie decided to scare

him.

‘If you stand there, you’ll get eaten by a bear,’ said Charlie.

‘A bear! Where?’ Otto screamed.

Charlie goggled. ‘we keep the bear in the head’s office. All Earth

schools have a bear,’ he went on. ‘sometimes the bear gets out…and

sometimes it’s hungry!’

Otto looked very scared.

Treasure Hunt

That afternoon the class was having a Treasure Hunt. All the children

were looking forward to it.

Miss Underwood gave each pair of children the same clue.

‘I want you to work in a pair with Otto,’ she said to Jo.

‘Work in a pear?’ said Otto ‘How? It wil

l have to be a big pear. Not

too juicy. We could all get sticky.’

Jo laughed. ‘Oh, Otto! You don’t understand anything! ’

The Treasure Hunt began.

Charlie worked with Josh. Jo worked with Otto.

This was the clue that they had to follow:

( start at the classroom door.

Then walk along.

Don’t go right.

Then you won’t go wrong.)

‘What does that mean?’ said Charlie.

‘I don’t know,’ said Josh. ‘But when Miss Underwood hid the treasure

last time, it was in the playground.’

‘Let’s go there!’ Charlie said to Josh. ‘Quick! We’ll be first.’

Otto jumped up to follow them-but Charlie had a plan. He stuck out his

foot and tripped Otto up.

‘Enjoy your trip!’ Charlie laughed, and ran off with Josh.

Jo helped Otto up.

All the other children ran out of the classroom and followed Charlie and

Josh. They turned right, towards the playground.

Jo sighed. ‘Now we’re going to be last.’

‘We won’t be last,’ said Otto, ‘because they’re all going the wrong

way. Look at the clue.’

(Start at the classroom door.

Then walk along.

Don’t go r

ight.

Then you won’t go wrong.

Otto pointed at the clue. ‘it means we start here

-at the classroom door

and we don’t turn RIGHT

-because that would be wrong. We have to turn

LEFT.’

They set off in the other direction to the rest of the children.

Charlie and Josh were looking for treasure in the playground and they

were getting fed up.

‘there’s nothing here,’ said Charlie. ‘Let’s look inside the

school.’

They went back into the school hall, past the head’s office and that’s

when they saw it…

‘there IS a bear!’

Charlie said. ‘there really is!’

They ran screaming back to their classroom.

‘Help! Help! We’ve seen a bear.’

Oh, Otto

Jo and Otto had turned left and walked along the corridor.

‘Look!’ said Otto.

There was an arrow and it was pointing to a plant pot.

Jo picked up the pot and found a map.

There was another clue on the map.

(clue number2

Follow this map if you want to do well.

Just look in the place where you find a spell.)

Jo and Otto followed the map to the school library.

Jo read out the clue again:

Follow this map if you want to do well.

Just look in the place where you find a spell.

‘I understand!’ said Otto. ‘look

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there’s a pile of spelling books.

That’s where we’ll find a “spell!”’

‘You’ve got it, Otto!’ said Jo.

Behind the pile of spelling books, there was a box of golden coins.

‘Yum!’ said Jo. ‘It’s chocolate money!’

Back in the classroom, Jo and Otto shared out the treasure chocolate.

‘But what’s the matter with Josh and Charlie?’ asked Otto.

Some of the other children laughed.

‘Charlie and Josh

thought they saw a bear!’

‘A bear!’ said Otto. ‘Jo told me you were making up that story to

scare me.’

Charlie looked ashamed. ‘It wasn’t really a bear,’ he said. ‘It was

the head’s big new coat hanging on the door…’

‘But it LOOKED like a bear,’ said Josh

.

Charlie and Josh went bright red.

‘Don’t worry,’ said Otto. ‘Everyone makes mistakes. Have a

chocolate.’

‘I’m sorry I made fun of you,’ said Charlie.

Charlie looked so sad that Miss Underwood felt sorry for him.

‘We’ll forgive you, Charlie,’ she said. ‘we all have bad days.’

She smiled. ‘You and Josh seem to have lost your heads, today!’

‘Oh!’ said Otto. ‘Shall I look for their heads, Miss? I’m good at

finding things!’

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第五篇

Captain Comet AND THE Purple Planet

1 Spanner is bored

It was a quiet morning at Stardust Space Stella was checking the

space shuttle.

Captain Comet was watering the plants and Spanner the robot was

bored.

‘Can I sit at the control desk?’he asked.

‘All right,’said Captain Comet,‘But don’t touch anything and

don’t press that red button.’

Spanner sat down at the desk and looked at all the buttons.

There were buttons to open all the space station doors and buttons

to turn on all the lights.

There was even a button to flush all the toilets!

There was also a big red

button,labelled‘Gravity’.

Spanner was not sure what ‘Gravity’was.

‘I’ll press it very quickly,’said Spanner,‘to see what it

does.’

He pressed the red button.

Captain Comet was watering the plants when he had a strange feeling.

He was floating above the floor!The plant pots were all floating,too.

He guessed what had happened.

‘Spanner!he shouted ,‘I told you not to touch that red button!’

Spanner saw that gravity was what made things stay on the floor.

There was no gravity in space,so the space station made its own..

Spanner pressed the red button to make the gravity come back on

again-and all the pot plants fell to the floor.

Comet fell to the floor beside them.

‘SPANNER!’Comet groaned.

2

It must be a plant

Spanner was cleaning up the mess for the rest of the morning.

When he turned the cleaner off,everyone heard a beeping noise was

coming from the space scanner.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and came to look.

‘The scanner has found something,’said Comet.

He pointed to a flashing dot that was moving across the scanner

screen.

‘I wonder what it is ?’said Captain Stella.

‘Is it an asteroid?’asked Spanner.‘An asteroid is a lump of rock

that floats in space.’

‘I know that!’said Captain Comet.‘Anyway ,it’s too big t

o be an

asteroid,’

‘Then it must be a planet,’Spanner said.

‘Where has it come from?’asked Comet,’And why is it moving so

fast?’

‘You’d better go and have a look,’said Captain Stella.

Comet and Spanner set off in the space shuttle to look for the new

was very excited.

‘I’ve never found a new planet before,’he said .‘What shall we

call it ?’

‘Let’s find it first ,’said Comet.

But Spanner wasn’t listening.‘I’m going to call it Planet

Spanner,’he said.

Spanner made a humming noise and a flag came out of a slot in his

chest.

‘What are you doing?’asked Comet.

‘I’ve made a flag to put on Planet everyone will know that we

were the first to find it,’Spanner explained.

He showed Comet the was bright red with two spanners on it.

Comet had t

o smile.‘Very nice,’he said.

3

On the Purple Planet

The planet looked very was purple and covered in huge spikes.

Comet landed the shuttle carefully on the planet.

Then he got out to have a look around.

Spanner stayed in the shuttle,making a flagpole for his flag.

Spanner found a metal rod.

He fastened the flag to one end of the rod and put the other end

into a hole in his chest.

There was a noise like an electric pencil he took the rod out

again,it had a nice sharp point.

Comet was looking at one of the giant purple felt soft and warm.

‘That’s very odd,’thought Comet.‘This spike feels like it’s

alive.’

Just then Spanner arrived with his new flagpole.‘I name this

planet-

Planet Spanner!’he said proudly.

‘NO!STOP!’Comet yelled.

But before Comet could stop him,Spanner hammered the sharp flagpole

into the ground.

There was a huge roar.

‘What was that?’asked Spanner.

‘Quick,back to the shuttle!’shouted Comet,as the ground began to

shake.

They strapped themselves into their seats and Comet blasted off.

Spanner looked at the planet’s surface was spinning around.

Then the opening of a big,dark cave came into view.

Around the outside of the opening were large,jagged rocks.

‘Look!’said Spanner.‘They’re like giant teeth!’

Comet stared at the screen.

‘That’s because they ARE giant teeth!’he said ,as two huge,angry

eyes came into view.

‘It’s not a planet…’said Comet,’…It’s a SPACE

MONSTER!’gasped Spanner.

4

Space Chase

‘Why is it so angry with us ?’cried Spanner.

‘You’ve just hammered a big sharp flagpole into its

backside,’explained Captain Comet.

The huge teeth snapped shut behind them.‘It wants to eat

us!’wailed Spanner.’We’ve got to get away!’

‘That’s what I’m trying to do !’said Comet.’But it’s too

fast!

’

Comet fired the shuttle’s he tried to make a sharp turn,as the

monster zoomed towards them..

‘What are we going to do ?’cried Spanner.

Just then,Captain Stella’s face appeared on the had been watching

them on the space scanner.

Captain Comet tried to make another sharp space monster was getting

closer and closer.

‘Are you all right?’Captain Stella asked.’What’s going on?’

‘WE’RE GOING TO BE EATEN!’wailed Spanner,’BY A PRICKLY PURPLE

SPACE MONSTER THE SIZE OF A PLANET!’

‘Apart from that,everything ‘s fine,’said Comet,making the

shuttle dive to dodge the giant teeth.

‘Can I help ?’asked Captain Stella.

‘No,’said Comet,‘You’re too far away. Is there anyone closer?’

Stella looked at the space map and shook her head.

‘No,there are no sp

ace stations or planets-

only asteroids,’she

said.

‘Asteroids!’Comet said.‘Tell me where they are .I’ve got an

idea!’

5

Into the Asteroids

The space shuttle zoomed towards the asteroids.

Spanner and Comet had never been so close to the asteroids before.

Some of the asteroids were as big as office blocks.

‘What are you doing?’cried Spanner, as Comet flew through a narrow

gap between two giant asteroids,‘If you hit one of them at this speed,

we’ll be smashed to bits!’

‘It’s the only way to get away from the monster,’explained

Comet.‘The gaps are so narrow, it can’t follow us .’

Comet was space monster stopped chasing them. Then it flew up to an

asteroid-and took a big bite out of it .

Comet and Spanner watched as the monster chomped its way happily

through two or three asteroids.

‘It eats asteroids!’ Spanner said.

‘I’m glad it didn’t eat US!’Comet smiled.

‘We didn’t find a new planet after all,’grumbled Spanner,on the

way back to the space station.

‘No,’said Comet.’But we did find a new

kind of space monster.’

‘That’s true,’said Spanner.’But how will anyone know that we

were the first to find it ?’

Captain Comet took one last look at the purple monster ane smiled.

‘Oh,they’ll know. After all , it does have YOUR FLAG sticking out

of i

ts bottom!’he said.

6

第六篇

JUNGLE SHORTS

1

It was Friday 3 had put on their coats and were waiting in a line

to go was at the back because the zip on his anorak(

防水衣

)had stuck(

卡

住

).He was so busy with the zip that he nearly missed what Mr Cox the

teacher said.

‘Here is a letter for you all.’said Mr Cox.‘Don’t lose it and

don’t forget to give it to your is good news inside.’

Lenny wanted to know what the good news rushed across the

playground to meet his mum.

‘Quick!Open this letter,’he said. ‘Mr Cox says there is good news

inside’

‘Say hello to me first!’laughed his mum,but she opened the read

it and told him.

‘Class 3 is going to have football school will lend

you some boots’

‘Wow!’shouted Lenny.‘Real football! I bet I score fifteen

goals!’

His mum pet the letter in her bag.

‘What about a stripy(带条纹的

) shirt and socks? Can I have a real

football strip?’b

egged(

央求

) Lenny.

‘Wait and see.’said mum.

At home Lenny couldn’t get out of his anorak and his mum had to

help him.

‘I’m glad you didin’t break the zip. I can’t get you another

coat until next month.’she said.

‘I don’t want a new coat,’said Lenny,‘

but can I have a real

football strip?Please?’

‘Ask me after tea,’said his mum.

They had pancakes for tea with jam and were Lenny’s today he ate

as fast as he could.

He put down his knife and fork with a clatter.(

当啷

)

‘You promised(许诺

) to talk abou

t football things after tea.’he

said.

Mum took Mr Cox’s letter from her bag.

‘Each child will need an old T

-

shirt and some socks,’she read.

‘No real football things?’ asked Lenny.

‘I’m sorry, for Cox wants

you all to have new ’ll go to the

market tommorrow to look for

some.’

Lenny was not happy buthe knew his had made up her mind and that

was looked great.

‘I bet they always had a proper(像样的) football strip,’he

thought.‘I bet they didn’t have to wear an old T

-

shirt.’

That night he lay awake was going to make sure his mum bought

football shorts. He wanted proper white football he knew he could score

lots of goals.

2

After breakfast the next day they set out to buy the new market was

two streets away from where Lenny the way they saw Ted and Shane from

Class and Shane lived near were kicking a ball about beside the road

Shane slammed the ball over to him and Lenny kicked it back.

‘Want to play?’called Ted.

‘I can’t,not ’m off with my mum to buy new football shorts.’

‘We’ve got ours already,’Ted shouted back.

The market was very was looking at the fruit and vegetables piled

high on the were shoes and clothes for sale under stripy canvas(

帆布

)

roofs(

屋顶

).One man was selling shorts

‘Get your jungle shorts!’he shouted.

He was wearing a wide straw hat (

宽檐草帽

)and an enormous(

巨大

的

)pair of jungle shorts over his had big green trees on with monkeys

smiling at the top .

‘Big or small,they don’t cost much,’said the man.

‘No thanks’ said Lenny. ‘I m going to strart football

lessons

next need real football shorts.’

He pulled at his mum’s struggled through the crowds trying to find

real football shorts. They found lots of shorts that were too big and a

little white pair that was too small When they did find a pair tin

Lenn

y’s size they cost far too much money.

‘We’ll just have to get the junngle shorts,’said Mum.‘The

colours are lovely. I’m sure you’ll like them better than white

ones.’

Lenny pulled a face ‘Oh mum’he said ‘But——

‘No buts’ said his mum.

They went sloowly back to the man selling jungle shorts .The pile(

堆

)

on his stall had gone down a lot.

‘I knew you’d come back. I put aside a pair just for you’said the

man.

He held a pair of junngle shorts against(

比较) Lenny’s tuousers.

‘A perfect fit!’he said wi

th a smile.

Lenny’s mum opened her purse and paid for the sharts. The man put

them in a bag and handed it over.

‘There you are,son .Have fun wearing them!’

Lenny did not smile .‘I wish they were real football shorts.’ he

said.

‘Junngle shorts are the next best thing.’ said his mum.

On the way home they saw Tessa and Pam from Class 3 kicking a ball

against a fence(

围墙). They lived at the top of Lenny’s street.

‘We can’t wait till Monday for football said the girls. We’ve got

new shorts!’

‘So have I’ said Lenny. But he didn't open his bag to show them.

3

On Monday ofternoon Class 3 were waiting for their first football

lesson. Everbody was noisy and excited ,swinging(

摇摆

) their bags of

football things .Lenny was at the back with the jungle shorts in his bag.

He didn't want to put them on.

Mr Cox carried a big box of boots into the changing room. They spent

a long time finding boots to fit everyone.

‘Now put on your football things and be quick about it,’ he said.

Lenny got changed in a corner behind the door.

When they wer all ready Mr Cox shouted, ‘get in line, everyone!’

Lenny made sure he was at the back again. He didn't want anybody to

see his jungle shorts and he hid behind Ted. He looked down to see what

Ted was wearing and got a surprise.

Ted was wearing jungle shorts as well! Lenny nudged(

用肘碰

) him in

the back and said ‘Your shorts are the same as mine!’

‘Yes,’ said ted ‘and the same as pam’s and tessa’s and

shane’s!’

It was true. All the friends from Lenny’s street were we

aring

junngle shorts. Mr Cox smiled.

‘Five childred in the same shorts. it muse be a record!’ he said.

‘And we all live in lyon street’ said Lenny.

‘In that case(既然这样

) you must all play for the same team you can

be the Lyon Street Lions.’

When Mr Cox had sorted out(

挑选

)three more teams they went out to

the playing field.

They played five-a-side football until home time. The lions team

beat all the others and Mr Cox said they were the scored five goals.

In the changing room the children untied(

解开

) their muddy(

沾满泥水

)

boots and put on their clothes.

‘All kit(球服) must be washed and boots clean for next Monday.’

said Mr Cox ‘Don't leave it for your mum. Do it as soon as you get home

and then you won’t forget.

Lenny was the first to be ready and he ran to meet his mum at the

gate. He told her about his five goals and the Lyon Street Lions

‘We’d better go home quickly now said Lenny. ‘ I have to clean my

boots and wash my shorts!’

And when Mr Cox drove home for his tea later on(

晚些时候

) he smiled

to himself. On Lyon Street there were five pairs of jungle shorts

blowing on the washing lines.

7

第七篇

The Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om

There was a problem at the castle. “I give up,” said Mrs Binns, The

royal cleaner, “there’s too much work here for one person.” Mrs Binns

gave Queen Norah the keys to the castle and left.

Queen Norah told the rest of the royal family. “what are we going to

do?” asked the Princess Jane. “For a start ,you cannot have your

friends round here any more . ’ said

Queen North. “why not?”

asked Princess Jane. “Because they make too much mess.” “perhaps we

can all try to keep the castle tidy,” said King Harry. “I’m sure that

Captain Jones and Captain Smith will help. I can even do a bit of

washing myself.”

“what!” shouted Queen Norah. “people will say that King Harry does

his own cleaning! Never!”

“we can put up an advert for a cleaner,” said Princess Jane. “Good

idea,” said Queen Norah. “Write an advert at once.” Princess Jane

wrote a notice. She pinned it to the castle door.

The days went by and nobody came to ask about the cleaning job. The

castle became dirtier and dirtier. There were no more clean clothes and

no more clean plates.

One morning Queen Norah heard singing coming from the kitchen. She

popped her head round the door. She saw a shocking sight.

King Harry was at the sink doing the dishes. Captain Smith was mopping

the floor. Captain Jones was washing the royal shirts.

“stop this at once, ” cried Queen Norah. “these are not jobs for a

king and his captains. You should be out fighting dragons. ”

“we’ve never seen any dragons, dear,” said the King. “you have never

even looked for them,” said Queen Norah.

Queen Norah was so upset that she made up her mind to go on a royal

tour that minute. ‘and you three: don’t even think about doing the

cleaning,’ she added, ‘you will go on a quest while I’m away.’

‘a quest?’ said King Harry, he went pale, ‘ a quest for dragons?’

‘you can look for them, too.’ Said Queen Norah. ‘but the main job is

to find a new cleaner.’

‘ what about me?’ asked Princess Jane.

You can stay at home and don’t let any burglars in or your friends.’

Queen Norah sent for her royal cases and bags and began her royal tour.

King Harry, Captain Jones and Captain Smith set off on their quest for a

cleaner. They looked very unhappy.

Princess Jane waved them goodbye.

‘ it’s not fair.’ Sniffed Princess Jane. ‘everyone’s off on quests

and tours, and I am stuck on m

y own in this smelly old castle.’

Princess Jane stuck out her lip and had a good suck.

She had just finished her suck when there was a knock on the castle door.

Princess Jane opened the door. There stood three figures in masks. ‘we

are the Masked Cleaning

Ladies of Om’ said one.

‘we were sent by your father, King Harry,’ said another.

‘that was quick.’ Said Princess Jane, ‘where is my father?’

‘chasing dragons.’ Said the third masked figure.

‘why are you masked ?’ asked Princess Jane

‘we have to protect ourselves from the dust.’ Said one, ‘can we

start?’

All day the Masked Cleaning Ladies scrubbed, dusted, washed and

polished. By evening, the castle sparkled.

‘now that the castle is clean you can take off your masks.’ Said

Princess Jane.

‘oh, no’ said one, ‘we can’t do that.’

‘why not?’ demanded Princess Jane

‘er,er,’ said another, ‘if we take off our masks we won’t be the

Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om.’

Princess Jane began to think very hard. Burglars often wore masks. Queen

Norah had told her not to let burglars into the castle.

The next day, Princess Jane set out to find out who the Masked Cleaning

Ladies really were.

The first Masked Cleaning Lady was in the kitchen, stuffing a pile of

dirty shirts into the washing machine.

‘Hm,’ she said, ‘shall I wash

this tablecloth on ‘hot’or ‘very

hot’ ?

Princess Jane came up behind her. She grabbed the tablecloth and pulled.

It over the cleaning Lady’s head.

‘help!’ mumbled the cleaning lady, ‘where am i?’

The second Masked Cleaning Lady was scrubbing the dungeon floors.

‘Excuse me,’ said Princess Jane, standing outside one of the cells.

‘but, it’s very dirty in here.’

‘I swept it only five minutes ago.’ Said the second cleaning lady.

‘let me have a look.’ She walked into the cell.

Princess Jane closed the door and turned the key.

The third cleaning lady was making a terrific noise with the vacuum

cleaner. She did not see Princess Jane creeping up behind her. Princess

Jane grabbed the vacuum. She pointed the nozzle at the cleaning lady.

‘one false move.’ Shouted Princess Jane, ‘ and I’ll suck you into

the vacuum, now, take off your mask.’

Slowly the cleaning lady took off her mask.

‘Father!’ cried Princess Jane.

The other two cleaning ladies turned out to be Captain Smith and Captain

Jones.

‘I think that you had better explain.’ Said Princess Jane.

‘well,’ said king Harry, we set off on our quest. When we reached the

woods, we saw a dragon.’

‘We think we saw a dragon,’ said Captain Jones.

‘at least, we heard sth moving in the woods and it sounded like a

dragon.’

Said Captain Smith.

‘so we thought we had better come home.’ Said Captain Jones.

‘we dressed up as cleaners.’ Said Captain Smith.

‘we rather like doing housework,’ said King Harry, ‘we like the smell

of polish.’

‘we like the hum of the vacuum cleaner.’ Sa

id Captain Jones.

‘we like the feel of soap flakes.’ Said Captain Smith.

‘and it’s much less dangerous than fighting dragons.’ Added King

Harry.

‘dragons are very rare.’ Said Captain Jones. ‘it’s not fair to hunt

them.’

‘Hm,’ said Princess Jane. ‘ it seems

to me that you three have been

telling lies, Father, you have always told me to tell the truth.’

‘I’m very sorry,’ said King Harry.

‘what will the Queen say? She’ll find out that you haven’t found any

cleaners or fought any dragons.’ Said Princess Jane ‘

she will send

you on a year’s dragon quest.’

King Harry, Captain Smith and Captain Jones went pale.

‘ please don’t tell,’ they begged, ‘I won’t tell if …’ said

Princess Jane

‘if what?’ ‘ if my friends can come round to play.’ ‘agreed.’ Said

King Harry.

The next day, Queen Norah came back from her royal tour. She was very

pleased to find the castle neat and tidy. ‘so’ she said, ‘the quest

was a success, who did you find?’

‘we found three cleaners.’ Said King Harry. ‘they wear masks’ said

Captain Jones.

‘and they can only come on Mondays’ said Captain Smith. ‘why’s

that?’ asked Queen Norah.

‘now that we have proper cleaners.’ Said King Harry. ‘don’t you

think that Jane’s friends can come here again?’

Queen Norah was so pleased to be in a nice clean castle that she agreed

at once.

Every Monday Queen Norah waves goodbye to king Harry and his two

captains as they set off to fight dragons. Princess Jane’s friends come

to play. Later, the masked cleaning ladies of om arrive to clean the

castle. So everybody is happy.

8

第八篇

The Masked Cleaning Ladies Save the Day

1

‘let’s try the song once more, your Majesty,’ said Billy the Butler.

‘Right,’ said Queen Norah. She sang, ‘We’re going to win the cup.

We’re going to win the cup. Ooh ah the addio, we’re

going to win the

cup.

How was that?’

‘Much better, your Majesty,’ sighed Billy. ‘But do try to…’

‘Try to what?’ snapped Queen Norah.

‘Well,’ said Billy. ‘It would help if you sounded a little happier.’

‘It’s this song,’ said Queen Norah. ‘It’s got such silly words. But

our football team is in the cup final and I really must learn it.’

King Harry walked in.

‘Do you think we will win, dear?’

‘Of course we will,’ said Queen Norah.

‘Yes dear,’ said King Harry. ‘But the Carrot Castle team are such

cheats, especially king Charles, the manager.’

At that moment, Captain Jones marched in. ‘I’ve just had a message

from King Charles at Carrot Castle. He is very keen to know what colour

shirts our t

eam will be wearing.’

‘Green, I think,’ said King Harry. ‘And his lot can play in red. Has

anyone seen Princess Jane? I am going to run a training session for her

after breakfast.’

Captain Jones giggled.

‘And what’s so funny?’ asked the King. ‘In

my younger days I was

known as the Wizard of the Dribble.’

‘That,’ said Queen Norah, ‘was because you couldn’t eat rice pudding

without putting most of it down you shirt.’

There was a crash of broken glass from the hall.

‘Sorry,’ called Prin

cess Jane. She came in carrying a football. ?I

missed my kick.’

‘Ah, Jane,’ said Queen Norah. ‘I was watching you in training

yesterday. You didn’t play well at all. Don’t forget you are the team

captain. So I have told one of the best trainers in the country to give

you some help.’

King Harry bluseded. ‘I’m not quite that good.’

‘Not you, you twit,’ said Queen Norah. ‘Mr Goal.’

‘Missed a goal?’ said King Harry. ‘Don’t you mean “scored a

goal”?’

‘what are you talking about?’ cried Queen Norah. ‘That’s his name.

Mr Jason Goal. He’s coming here this morning. I must dash. I have to

try on my new football fan?s outfit.’

The Queen rushed off.

2

The dining room fell silent.

‘What’s the matter, dear?’ said King Harry.

?Princess?Jane?let?o ut?a?great?long?sigh.?

‘Mum’ s?right.?I’m?not?playing?very?well.?I’m?supposed?t o?score?goals

.?At?the?moment?I?couldn’t ?score?against?a?mouse.’

??’ On?you?head,?Jane,’?called?King?Harry?and?he?threw ?the?ball?at?the?

Princess.?She?jumped?a t?the?ball.?The?ball?bounced?off?her?shoulder?into

?the?marmalade.????

< br>‘See?what?I?mean?’?she?said?sadly.?

‘Never?mind,’?said?King?Harry.?

‘By?the?time?you’ve?put?your?kit?on,?Mr?Goal?w ill?be?here.?You’ll?soo

n?be?scoring?doz ens?of?goals.?But?now?it’s?time?for?us?

to?get?to?work.

’

King?Harry,?Captain?Smith?and?Captain?Jones?loved? doing?housework.?Queen

?Norah?thought?th at?housework?was?a?job?for?cleaners,?not?captains? and?k

ings.?So?once?a?week?the?three?men ?disguised?themselves?as?the?Masked?Cl

e aning?Ladies?of?Om.????

King ?Harry?and?his?two?captains?raced?out?of?the?dinin g?room.?Minutes?la

ter,?dusters?in?hands ,?and?dressed?as?the?famous?cleaning?ladies,?they? w

ere?at?work?tidying?the?castle.?

???King?Harry?and?Captain?Jones?w ere?polishing?the?cannons?when?they?saw

?a?man?walking?towards?the?castle.????

‘That?must?be?Mr?Goal,’?said?Captain?Jo nes.??

Just?as?Mr?Goal?reach ed?the?drawbridge?another?man?jumped?out?of?the?bu s

hes.?He?began?talking?with?Mr?Goal.?

‘Wait a minute,’ said King Harry. ‘It’s King Charles of Carrot

Cast

le.’

King Charles spoke to Mr Goal and then walked away.

‘What did he want?’ asked Captain Jones.

‘There’s something funny going on. We’d better keep an eye on him,’

said King Harry.

King Harry and the two captains cleaned around the castle for the rest

of the morning. But they made sure that one of them was always watching

Princess Jane Mr Goal.

The three cleaners stopped for a cup of tea in the kitchen.

‘Well,’ said King Harry. ‘There doesn’t seem to be anything funny

going on.’

‘I saw the Princess put the ball in the net dozens of times,’ said

Captain Jones.

‘She was heading the ball perfectly when I went by,’ said Captain

Smith.

‘There’s nothing to worry about,’ said King Harry. ‘Now perhaps we

can tackle the grime

round the cooker.’

Princess Jane stuck her head round the door.

‘How are things going, dear?’ asked King Harry.

‘Brilliantly,’ said Princess Jane. ‘I’ve never played better. I’ve

just poppede in to say that we’re having one last training sess

ion. We

will be in the library. Mr Goal says that he does not want anyone to

come in.’

She was gone in a flash.

‘That sounds a bit odd to me,’ said Captain Jones.

‘Very odd,’ agreed Captain Smith.

‘I think that it’s time to polish the brass,’ said King Harry.

‘The brass next to the library?’ said Captains Smith and Jones.

‘Of course,’ said King Harry.

‘Well,’ whispered King Harry, ‘what can you see?’

Captain Jones was peering through the keyhole.

‘They are sitting facing each other,’ he said.

‘Yes. Yes,’ said King Harry.

‘Now Mr Goal is swinging a watch on a chain, backwards and forwards,’

said Captain Jones.

‘He’s telling the Princess about last

-

minute goals,’ said Capt

ain

Smith.

‘No he’s not,’ gasped Captain Jones. ‘He is hypnotizing Princess

Jane.’

‘I wonder why?’ said King Harry.

‘To help her remember tactics,’ said Captain Smith.

‘I still don’t like it,’ said King Harry.

3

Princess Jane danced into the kitchen.

‘He’s gone.’

‘How do you feel?’ asked King Harry.

‘Brilliant,’ said Princess Jane. ‘I feel ready to score loads of

goals.’

‘Jolly good,’ said Captain Smith.

‘I must go and work on my penalty kicks,’ said Princess Jane

. ‘By

the way, Captain Smith, I love you new overall.’

‘Thank you, Princess.’

‘Green really suits you,’ laughed the princess as she ran off to the

garden.

The three cleaners looked at each other.

‘Green!’ they said together.

‘But my overall’s red,’ said Captain Smith.

‘It’s that Mr. Goal,’ roared Captain Janes. ‘He’s hypnotized her to

think that red is green.’

‘Why does he want her to think that?’ asked King Harry.

‘Because,’ gasped Captain Janes,’Carrot Castle

are playing in red. If

the Princess thinks that red is green she will pass to the Carrot Castle

team instead of ours.’

‘So that’s why King Charles was talking to Mr. Goal,’ said King Harry.

‘Can’t we snap her out of it?’ asked Captain Smith. ‘Can’t w

e throw

a bucket of water over her?’

‘No,’ said King Harry. ?That could be dangerous. I have a better idea.

Follow me to Carrot Castle.’

The Masked Cleaning Ladies stopped outside the kitchen of Carrot Castle.

Mrs. Jumpkins was pegging out the carrot Castle red football shirts. The

cleaning ladies got off their horses. They pretended to look at the

shirts.

‘Oh dear,’ said King Harry.

‘Oh dear, oh dear,’ added Captain Jones and Captain Smith.

‘What’s the matter?’ asked Mrs. Jumpkins.

‘When are you going to wash these shirts?’ asked Captain Smith.

‘What do you mean?’ snapped Mrs. Jumpkins. ‘I’m just putting them

out to dry.’

‘You call this clean?’ said Captain Jones.

‘Yes I do,’ said Mrs. Jumpkins.

‘It’s the dungeon for you then,’ said King Harry.

‘Dungeon?’ said Mrs. Jumpkins.’What’s the dungeon got to do with

me?’

‘That’s where the last washerwoman ended up,’ said Captain Smith.

‘And she handed in shirts cleaner than this.’

‘Oh my,’ moaned Mrs. Jumpkins. ?I haven’t go the time to do them

again. The team are playing in the cup final this afternoon.’

‘Leave it to us,’ said King Harry. ‘We can wash, dry and iron these

shirts in half an hour.’

Half an hour later the King handed a parcel to Mrs. Jumpkins.

‘There you are. All done. Now whatever you do, don’t take the kit out

of the bag until the team are ready to play. Then the shirts will look

perfect.’

The two royal families took their places side by side in royal box.

Queen Norah looked amazing in her new football fan’s outfit. She even

had a hat in the shape of a football pitch.

The crowd cheered as the two teams ran out onto the pitch.

Princess Jane’s team was in red and Carrot Ca

stle was in green.

‘Wait a minute,’ gasped King Charles. ‘The teams have got the wrong

shirts. Carrot Castle are supposed to be in red.’

‘Surely,’ said King Harry, ‘it doesn’t matter what colours they play

in? They must be different colours, that

’s all.?

King Charles put his head in his hands and groaned.

‘Six nil. Six nil. Six nil,’ chanted Queen Norah. ?Oh well done!’

‘We are so proud of you, Jane,’ laughed King Harry. ‘Scoring all six

goals.’

‘It’s all thanks to Mr. Goal, my trainer,’ said Jane. ‘I must show

him the cup.’

‘Not toddy,’ said Queen Norah. ‘It is far too dirty. Nobody can see

the cup until those cleaning ladies have given it a proper polish.’

‘Yes dear,’ said King Harry. ‘I’ll

-I mean-

they’ll see to it next

time they come.’

9

第九篇

The masked cleaning ladies meet the pirates

Queen Norah was showing Princess Jane the Royal Treasures.

‘Jane’ snapped Queen Norah. ‘You aren’t listening!’

‘I’m’ yawne

d Princess Jane.

‘Then,’ said Queen Norah, ‘what is this?’

She pointed at a model of a horse.

‘It’s er…’ began the Princess.

‘You’re as bad as King Harry. He doesn’t care about the Royal

Treasures either.

This is the Golden Horse of Tong.

It belonged to

your Great, Great, Great Grandfather. H…’

King Harry came in.

‘The postman’s just been,’ he said. ‘This is for you.’

Queen Norah opened the letter.

‘Bad news,’ sighed Queen Norah.

‘My sister’s crown is missing.’

‘Stolen?’ asked King Harry.

‘I expect she’s just it down somewhere. You know what she’s like. I

shall have to go and help her find it.’

‘What day is it?’ said Queen Norah.

‘Monday?’ said King Harry.

‘Correct. The cleaning ladies will be coming. The front of the castle

needs a jolly good scrub, I want you to stay here and make sure those

cleaners do a good job.’

‘Yes, dear,’ said King Harry.

‘I shall lock up the Royal Treasures. I don’t want our Royal Treasures

being lost or stolen.’

King harry waved goodbye to Queen Norah.

‘Now,’ said King Harry to C

aptain Smith and Captain Jones.

‘It's time for up to change into the Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om.’

The King and his two captains took over the housework when the last

cleaner left. They kept it a secret from Queen Norah by dressing up as

cleaning ladies and wearing masks.

The Queen would have been furious if she ever found out.

A few moments later the three men came back, dressed as cleaning ladies.

‘The Queen won’t be back for ages,’ said Princess Jane.

‘You don’t need to wear the masks today.’

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‘Ahoy there!’ came a cry from outside the castle.

‘We are a gang of very dangerous pirates, hiding behind a rock..’

Princess Jane peeped over the castle wall.

‘Where’s your ship?’ she asked.

‘We’re saving up for one. Now give us your treasure.’

‘No!’ shouted Kin

g Harry.

‘Then we will make you walk the plank,’ yelled the voice.

‘Have you got a plank?’ called the King .

‘No. We’ll throw you to the sharks, then,’ shouted the voice.

‘There aren’t any sharks round here,’ called Princess Jane.

‘Look,’ shouted the voice

.

‘Just hand over your treasure.’

‘We can’t give them the Royal Treasure,’ said King Harry.

‘Because the Queen has locked the room and she has the key.’

‘We will have to fight them,’ said Princess Jane.

‘Fight?’ said King Harry.

‘You mean us?’ gasped Capta

in Smith and Captain Jones.

Princess Jane took out her telescope and looked at the rock.

‘I can only see three pirates. They don’t look fierce, but they are

dirty.’

‘Dirty! Said King Harry.

‘The Masked Cleaning Ladies know about dirt. We shall need hot wat

er,

soap, polish and ’

‘You can’t start cleaning now,’ said Princess Jane.

‘Ah,’ said the King. ‘This is a very special cleaning job. Captain

Smith, go and polish the big shield in the main hall. Captain Jones, you

must the floor. I shall run a nice, hot,

soapy bath.’

‘What shall I do? Asked Princess Jane.

‘You keep them talking,’ said the King.

A bit later King Harry yelled, ‘OK, you dirty pirates, came and get

us!’

The three pirates rushed out from behind the rock.

They ran across the drawbridge. The doors opened.

The pirates stopped. There in front of them was a cleaning lady. She was

armed only with a duster.

‘This is going to be easy,’ said the first pirate.

The pirates raced forward. The cleaning lady was really Captain Smith

and he pulled his duster to one side.

Beneath it was the royal shield.

It was so shiny that the pirates were dazzled. They hid their eyes.

They did not see the floor that Captain Jones had polished.

‘Help!’ yelled the pirates as they skidded on the slippery floor.

They slid down the hall, straight into the bathroom.

The three pirates landed in a lovely hot, soapy bath.

Before they had time to say, ‘Ahoy there,’ they were being scrubbed

and soaped.

‘OW!’

‘Hold still!’

The pirates wiped the soap out of their eyes. They saw King Harry,

Captain Smith and Captain Jones dressed as cleaning ladies and holding

up mirrors.

‘Oh no,’ said the first pirate.

‘We’re clean.’

King Harry was holding a camera.

‘Please don’t take our picture,’ said the pirates.

‘It’s would be terrible if other pirates found out. Please we’d do

anything.’

‘You have wasted a lot of our time,’ said King Harry.

‘Now, put these aprons on. You can help with the cleaning.’

‘Cleaning?’ said the pirates.

‘Yes,’ said King Harry, ‘Or I’ll take your picture.’

Soon, the King and his captains and the three pirates were all scrubbing

away at the castle wall.

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A trumpet sounded.

‘Oh no,’ said King Harry. ‘That means that Queen Norah is back.’

‘She’ll find out that we are the cleaning ladies,’ said Captain Smith.

‘She’ll be furious.’ said Captain Jones.

‘What shall we do?’ wailed Captain Smith.

‘There’s only one thing we can do,’ said King Harry.

‘The three pirates must pretend to be the cleaners.’

‘Good idea,’ said Princess Jane.

‘You go and get changed and I’ll watch the pirates.’

The drawbridge was lowered. King Harry ran to meet Queen Norah.

‘Did you find your sister’s crown?’ he asked.

‘It was under the sofa,’ said the Queen. She looked up and saw three

pirates scrubbing at the front wall of the castle.

‘Those cleaners haven’t got their masks on.’

‘Er, uh, er,’ gasped King Harry.

‘I am glad. They have such honest faces, said the Queen,

‘Come down at once, your cleaners.’

The three pirates stood before the Queen.

‘What day is it?’ said the Queen.

‘Monday? Said the pirates.

‘Pay day,’ laughed the Queen,

‘Oh dear,’ said King Harry.

‘Oh yes,’ said the pirates.

The Queen opened her purse. The pirates held out their hands.

‘But

-

’ began Captain Jones.

‘Your majesty…’ said Captain Smith.

‘What a fess,’ said Queen Norah.

‘Anyone wou

ld think that you had done the cleaning. Now cleaners, come

with me. I was showing Jane the Royal Treasures this morning. They need

a good polish.’

Queen Norah walked off with the three pirates.

King Harry whispered to the two captains, ‘I don’t trust thos

e pirates.

Follow me.’

Queen Norah unlocked the door.

‘This is the room where we keep all the Royal Treasures,’ she said

proudly.

‘Are they worth a lot of money? ‘ asked the first pirate.

‘This is the Golden House of Tong. It is worth thousands,’ she said.

‘Thousands, eh?’ said the second pirate. ‘When I come back,’ said

Queen Norah, ‘I want to see those treasures shining.’

‘Right lads,’ said the first pirate.

‘Let’s grab the stuff.’

The pirates stuffed the treasures into their aprons. They ran towards

the main door.

King Harry, Princess Jane and the two captains came out from behind the

curtain.

‘Not so fast!’ said King Harry.

The pirates stood still.

‘Give those Royal Treasures back at once!’

Sadly, the pirates took the treasures out of their aprons.

‘Now,’ said King Harry to Jane.

‘Take those treasures back before the Queen finds out that they are

missing,’

‘I will,’ said Jane. She dashed off carrying the treasures.

‘Let's face it,’ said King Harry. ‘You are no good as pirates.’

One of the pirates began to sniff.

‘Why don’t you do something honest?’ said Captain Smith.

‘You made a very good job of cleaning the castle,’ said King Harry.

‘You should become cleaners.’

‘That reminds me,’ said Captain Jones.’

You still have the cleaning money. Hand it over.’

The first pirate gave him back the money.

‘The pirates can have half,’ said King Harry, ‘because they did half

the work.’

‘Thanks very much,’ said the first pirate.

‘Cor,’ said the second pirate. ‘This is like doing a real job.’

‘I was going to keep this,’ s

aid the third pirate.

‘But you’ve been so kind.’

He handed King Harry the Golden Horse of Tong.

The pirates left.

‘Help! We’ve been robbed!’ yelled Queen Norah. ‘It’s those cleaning

ladies. They have stolen the Golden Horse of Tong!’

‘Do you mean this?’

said King Harry, holding out the Golden Horse.

‘Oh, thank goodness,’

She gasped ‘What are you doing with it?’

‘Er

-

um,’ said King Harry. Then he had an idea.

‘Oh, yes. I remember. I was going to tell Jane all about it. It was

given to King Sam by the people

of Tong.’

‘Oh, Harry,’ smiled Queen Norah, ‘so you and Jane do care about the

Royal Treasures.’

‘Of course we do,’ said King Harry.

‘We’d be heartbroken if they were ever lost.’

‘Or stolen,’ said Jane.

10

第十篇

Jellyfish Shoes

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Laura had some new jelly shoes.

She was really proud of them. They were pink and see- through like

raspberry jelly.

She ran down to the beach in them. Wherever she walked, they left little

tracks in the sand.

Like this:

'Look, Scott,' Laura called to her brother. 'My new jelly shoes are

leaving stars in the sand.'

Squidge. Laura trod in something slippery. She lifted up her shoe.

'Ughhh!' she said.' What's that mess?'

'It's only a jellyfish,' said Scott.' The sea washes them up on the

beach.'

'Well, I don't like it,' said Laura. 'It looks like a jelly cow-pat.'

Slosh. The sea washed up some more jellyfish. Pink ones this time. They

spread out in pink puddles on the sand.

'Watch out,' said Scott.' Jellyfish can give you a nasty sting.'

'Yuk! ' cried Laura. 'There are loads of them! And, phew, what a pong! I

hate them. They'll spoil my new jelly shoes!'

Scott looked at the jellyfish on the sand. He looked at Laura's new

shoes. An idea popped into his head.

'I don't know why you hate jellyfish,' said Scott. 'What do you think

your new shoes are made of?'

Laura looked down at her shoes. They were see-through and pink. The

jellyfish on the beach were see-through and pink too.

'Don't be silly,' she told Scott. But her voice was shaky.

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'I thought you knew,' said Scott. 'Don't you know what happens to all

these washed-up jellyfish?'

Laura shook her head.

'I'll tell you what happens,' said Scott, who was good at stories. 'The

jelly workers come round. They come round at night with bin bags. And

they shovel all the jellyfish into the bags. And they take them away to

the Jelly Shoe Factory.'

He went on, 'And they make them into shoes. Just like the ones you've

got on. I thought everyone knew that!'

Laura looked down at her new shoes.

'I don't think I like my new shoes any more,' she said.

Then she tore them off.