“Ha ha, slow, slow Toffee!” said Ally.
Toffee still kept munching until her tummy was full.
Ally was about to get Toffee some water. By that time, Toffee rushed to the tap and started glugging down the water.
“Glug, glug, glug, glug, glug.” She drank water faster than anybody could.
Ally then introduced Toffee to Albert. Albert and Toffee were the best play mates. They played continuously for 4 and ½ hours.
“Toffee, come and eat your lunch,” said Ally.
Toffee came running to Ally and started munching and crunching like she always did and also glugged water like she always did. She then continued to play with Albert.
They took a nap for an hour and played again until 6’O clock.
Fifi came to take Toffee back home. “Did you have fun guys?” asked Fifi.
“Yeah, lots of fun,” said Ally not being genuine.
“Oh, great! See you tomorrow at the playground,” said Fifi and left.
Chapter 11
Trouble in the Play Ground
Everyone comes to playground after breakfast and that is the routine during vacation time.
So, one such morning everyone were in the playground, including Fifi and Toffee. For the past few days, everyone had a chance to have Toffee, the rabbit. Some of them liked her and some of them did not. That day, in the park everyone started liking Toffee and they played with her.
Wherever Fifi went, Toffee followed her. Suddenly Toffee bounced onto the swing and .. THUD!! The swing broke.
Toffee then went to the merry-go-round and rotated it so fast that it came off!
All the children were yelling. “STOP, STOP, Don ’t do that!”
But Toffee did not! She wanted to go on the slide. She climbed up the ladder and sat on the slide. She was so heavy that the slide couldn’t bear her weight.
“DABAK!!!” Toffee was down on the ground. But to everybody’s surprise, she did not cry. She had done too much of chaos in the park. Everyone had enough. They tried doing everything, even pulling her down with a rope; but the rope broke apart into pieces.
So Fifi ran back home and got her parents and her friends’ parents. All of them came running. “What on earth is going on??!!”asked all the parents.
“Toffee has gone wild!” shouted the children in one voice.
“Call for help!!” shouted Ally’s mom. So, Finola called Wizardo.
“Quick, stop her Wizardo!” said Finola’s mom.
“Stoppify, Stop, stop drop, Drop, Drop” DABAK! Down she fell from the monkey bars.
“Oh bother! Now we have to pay for all the repair. I wonder what is the cause for all this,” asked Fifi.
“I think, I would be knowing,” said Wizardo magicked up a book. “Mmmmm, Toffee has got the case of crazy hoppifys. Once she has got it, next time she wouldn’t,” explained Wizardo.
“Oh, ok, may be Toffee is alright,” said Ally. And she was.
All the kids gathered up their pocket money and paid for the repair of the damaged equipment.
Chapter 12
The Mystery of the Lost Bracelet
Grandma and Grandpa had come to visit Ally & Albert. Grandma got Ally a guinea pig. She was so happy. They named her Lia. It was night. All of them had supper and slept.
The next morning someone shrieked, “Aaaahh!!” Everyone woke up. It was Ally’s mom who shouted.
“What happened?” asked everyone.
“My bracelet has disappeared” said mom.
Ally and Albert put on their detective uniforms and started looking for clues. They started searching everywhere in the house. They searched after breakfast, post lunch and continued in the evening.
Late in the evening, they spotted paw prints. They had stripes on them. The footprints led to the room where Grandma & Grandpa slept.
“This looks like some animal has stolen the bracelet,” expressed Ally.
“Yeah,” said Albert. “It cannot be Toffee. These footprints are too small.”
“Let us go and look in Grandma & Grandpa’s room,” said Ally.
They tiptoed into the room and started searching. They found mom’s bracelet lying near the guinea pig’s cage.
“Could it be Lia?” asked Albert.
“Hmmm, possible. Let us ask Grandma,” said Ally.
“Grandma, Grandma, did you see Lia carrying the bracelet into her cage?” asked Albert.
“No, but I did see something in Lia’s cage. When I took a closer look, I saw that it was a bracelet. I did not know to whom it belonged. So I just kept it out of the cage,” explained Grandma in detail.
“That’s it! This is mom’s bracelet! We found it!” exclaimed Ally.
“Let us go and give it back to mom,” said Albert.
“Oh! Thank you! Thank you so much,” said mom who was extremely happy to get back her lost bracelet.
“Alright! Supper time!” said Grandma.
Everyone rushed to the dining room. Ally and Albert were so hungry after their detective work. Mom served spaghetti, meat balls and tomato soup.
“What is for dessert?” asked Albert.
“Butter scotch pudding!” said Ally.
Chapter 13
The Food Fight
Ally was slurping her spaghetti and by mistake, she spat a bit of it on Albert.
“Don’t you know table manners?” said Albert angrily and poured the tomato soup on Ally.
“Yuck! Why did you do that? “said Ally. She took the plate of spaghetti and threw it on Albert’s face.
“Ha, ha, ha,” laughed Ally. “Now you look like a spaghetti monster!”
Albert was chewing the meat balls when Ally threw the plate of spaghetti on him. As he was shocked, the meat ball went flying straight onto mom’s face. Mom’s face went red with anger.
Furiously she took her butter scotch pudding and threw it straight on his shirt. Albert got angry and threw the spaghetti on mom. When it came near mom, she ducked, and it went straight on to dad’s face.
Dad got angry and poured the soup on mom’s face. Meanwhile, Albert started shooting meat balls on mom. Ally shot meat balls on Albert. Everyone started throwing food on each other.
Grandma and Grandpa were sitting still and shocked. All the food went waste. The entire table became messy. Everyone smelled of spaghetti, meat balls, tomato soup and butter scotch pudding. Grandma and Grandpa came back to their senses and started scolding them.
Chapter 14
The Messy Cleaning
The cleaning was very difficult; especially for grandpa, dad and Albert. They did not know which soap to use for what type of cleaning. So, when grandma, mom and Ally were washing the dishes, three of them were left to clean the table. They got confused.
“Which soap shall we use? Detergent or stroke gel**?” asked dad.
(** A soap used for cleaning furniture)
“Errr.. May be detergent,” suggested grandpa.
So, they used detergent to clean the table and chairs! They used stroke gel to wash all the soiled clothes! Then they took ##sparkly hands to wash the rest of the dishes. And they used silver soak*** to wash their hands.
(## A hand wash) (**A gel for washing dishes)
“Something strange! Our dining table smells of detergent!” said mom
“Yup,” announced dad proudly. “We used the detergent for cleaning the table. Smart, ain’t we?”
“No, really foolish,” said grandma. “Don’t you know that detergent is used for washing clothes?”
“Ehm, no,” said grandpa. “We thought it was used for cleaning the table.”
“And, your clothes smell of stroke gel,” said mom.
Ally and Albert giggled.
“You have also used hand wash for washing the dishes,” giggled Ally.
Hearing that, mom and grandma ran to the kitchen to smell the vessels.
“Ha, ha, ha very funny,” said grandma and mom in a stern voice.
“Now, show me, let me smell your hands!” sai
d mom.
“Oh my goodness! You have been using silver gel for washing your hands! This can lead to being sick.”
“Eating with hands washed using the wrong soap, eating from dishes that is washed using wrong soap, eating on a table that is cleaned using wrong soap!! Ughh? Enough! My mouth is aching!” said mom and stopped her lecture.
All of them ran out of the room, covering their ears. When mom looked around, she was surprised.
“Where are you all,” asked mom.
“We are right here,” said grandma.
All of them came out one by one.
“Why did you go to the other room?” asked mom softly.
“We could not bear your lecture,” said Ally.
“You were the people who did something wrong,” said mom.
“Alright, alright, sorry for that,” apologized dad, grandpa and Albert.
“Ok, leave all that,” said grandma. “It is time to have some fun now.
Chapter 15
The Crazy Clown
Witcho’s and Wizardo’s birthday was nearing. Ally and her friends had planned for a surprise party. The idea was Witcho had to do a magic surprise to Wizardo and Wizardo had to do a magic surprise to Witcho.
“Gosh! Only two more days to go!” exclaimed Tina and Mina.
“We have already planned the surprises. Now the only things left to do are food, decoration and presents,” said Emily.
“Come on guys, got to work,” said Ally. “Fifi & Finola, can you please keep Wizardo busy?”
“Hey, what about Witcho? Don’t you know she is still in stone age?”, said George and rushed to the shop to buy decorations.
All the mothers were experts in cooking. So, they wanted to give the responsibility of party food to them. Everyone went home and requested their mothers. All the mothers started preparing for the party while the children spent hours decorating the hall.
Then the next day all of them collected their pocket money.
“The cake that Witcho and Wizardo like costs $12,” announced Albert.
“Well, I have got $2,” said George.
“2”, said Fifi.
“3,” said Finola.
“Same here,” said Tina and Mina together.
“3,” said Emily.
“Another 3 from us,” said Ally and Albert.
“So, we will have $4 remaining. Let us spend that on presents,” said Emily.
All of them ran to the gift shop close by. They spent 1$ on a birthday card and another 1 $ on a teddy bear that was as big as a 1 year old toddler.
They all went back . Ally took the presents home and hid them in a cardboard box.
The next day was the party! All of them were so excited.
Witcho and Wizardo came in from different directions. When they saw each other, they started doing magic tricks on each other, as planned by the children.
There was a huge magical explosion! Out came a clown!
Witcho and Wizardo were surprised. They opened their mouths so wide that we could fit a whole water melon inside!
“Gosh! It is the crazy clown from the underworld of stone age,” said Wizardo trembling.
“He is totally bonkers! If he happened to see someone wearing bright red lipstick, he would splash water on their face and smear the lipstick all over their face and hands!” said Witcho.
“And whenever he smells perfume or talcum powder, he starts the unstoppable sneezes, which lasts for at least a month,” said Wizardo.
“Yes, so be very careful with him and make sure that he does not see red lipstick or smell talcum powder or perfume,” said Witcho.
The party continued. The crazy clown spotted Fifi’s mother- Mrs. Daffodil, wearing bright red lipstick. The crazy clown ran to her, splashed water on her face and smeared the lipstick all over her face. No one noticed as they were all busy dancing and playing.
Mrs. Daffodil gave a loud scream. Everyone stopped everything. Fifi went running to her mother and tried to wipe off the lipstick from her face. All others also joined her. While all this happened, the crazy clown’s key had stopped.
Mrs. Daffodil literally could not see with lipstick all over her face. Fifi asked Ally to bring a tub filled with water. Then she held her mother’s hands and dipped her face into the water and scrubbed it with a sponge. Water splashed all over including Mrs. Daffodil’s party dress.
“This is girl has gone totally crazy,” said Finola.
“Oops, sorry mom, I did not mean to wet your new dress. I was only scared if the lipstick would spread on to your dress. People say better to prevent that to cure, you know! So sorry mom, so sorry everyone,” apologized Fifi and ran to her home.
She came back after some time with a bag in her hand, a big one. She gave it to her mother. Her mother opened it and she got a surprise. It was her favorite gown. She had been searching for that beautiful blue gown for years. Now Fifi had found it so easily. The daughter and mother hugged each other. Fifi had also got pink lipstick for her mother. NO RED anymore!
Mrs. Daffodil changed into the blue gown and came out looking gorgeous. She looked the best among all the others.
** NOTE: Please do not read this chapter to naughty children!
Chapter 16
The Lord of the Underworld
Everyone had cake and pizza for dinner. They also gave away the surprise gifts to Witcho and Wizardo. Just then, there was a cling-clang and a tic-toc sound.
“Who could that be?” asked Albert.
All of them quickly gathered in a place. The crazy clown started roaming and there was cling clang sound again!
“I am getting scared,” said Ally’s mom.
“Nothing to worry about!” assured Witcho.
Suddenly there was a crash!
“AAAGHHH!” everyone shouted.
With a THUD, came the Lord of the underworld!
“Wh.. Who are you?” questioned Ally.
“I am The Lord Of The Underworld. They call me TLOTUW” he said in a booming voice.
“Where do you live?” asked Finola.
“I live in the underworld palace,” he said.
“How old are you?” asked Tina and Mina.
“Oh, me? I don’t know how old I am. I don’t count my age and I don’t like to do that. I was born somewhere and today I am happy that I am in a good position,” he said.
Questions started pouring in by everyone, except Witcho and Wizardo.
Suddenly, Witcho asked, “What have you come for?”
“Me? I have come for the crazy clown. I want to take him back so that he would not cause any more trouble,” said the Lord of the underworld.
“Oh, he has already caused trouble. My mom had applied red lipstick and he smeared it all over her face. I tried to wash it off her face and then her clothes got wet and then I had to go bring her another set of clothes!” explained Fifi in one breathe.
“Oh, is it? I will take the crazy clown back home, Where is he?” asked TLOTUW
“I think he went out to the garden,” said Tina and Mina.
TLOTUW took his flying tea cup and saucer and rushed to the garden. Everyone ran with him too. When they reached the garden, TLOTUW took out his wiggly tiggly whip with the glitter on top and stretched it, pulled the crazy clown. The crazy clown was busy plucking flowers and throwing them.
Most of the flowers were out of their plants. TLOTUW pulled and pulled, but could not succeed.
“You crazy clown, I command you to stop that and come back home!” said TLOTUW.
“Boss, I am busy collecting flowers for making perfume,” said the crazy clown.
“Oh no! Are you going to make perfume? That is not a great news,” commented TLOTUW
“He is going to get unstoppable sneezes!” whispered Wizardo and Witcho.
“Stop it, stop is at once!” shouted. TLOTUW.
“Ok Boss. But I will come back later to make the perfume,” said the crazy clown.
“Come with me at once and you are NOT coming back here
again, “said TLOTUW sternly.
Immediately the crazy clown followed TLOTUW. They waved good-bye and went back to their home- The underworld.
“Phew, he did not make the perfume or else, by this time, he would have been sneezing,” said Ally’dad. “The Lord of the Underworld saved us!”
Chapter 17
The Vegetable Harvest
Everyone had been growing vegetables in their backyards. The harvests happen four times in a year, once in three months. So, today was the vegetable harvest and all of them ran to the backyards. They had grown potatoes, carrots, beans, cabbage, lettuce, brinjal, okra, pumpkin, beetroot and onions. Everyone’s favorite was potato and so they had decided to harvest that first. All of them collected the potatoes from their respective backyards, washed the mud and put them in a basket.
Ally called to her best friend Emily. “Hey Em, how many potatoes have you got?”
“Ten, Al,” said Emily.
“That is great! I have got eleven!” said Ally.
“How many carrots have you got?” asked Emily.
“I am yet to pull out the carrots Em. Ok bye, catch you later,” replied Ally and hung up the phone.
The carrots grew underground and so it was difficult to find out the plant that has carrots beneath them. However, Ally had a great idea. She got Toffee to sniff out the carrots. She shared the idea with her friends. So Toffee was passed on to trace the carrots. Then they collected the salad and burger favorite- Lettuce- Green Leafy Yummy Lettuce! But some do not like it. They collected them in the basket.
There was a competition too! Whoever harvested the most was the winner. They called each other in between to ask how much they collected. There was also a specific order in which the veggies should be collected- Potato, carrot, lettuce, beans, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, brinjals, beetroots- God knows why!
After collecting all the vegetables, stuffed everything into their car boot and, they set off to where the competition was held. But no one else turned up for the harvest fest, even after an hour. Mr. Johnson, the Mayor was worried. They found out that the quantity of the harvest was very less and so people did not want to participate in the competition!
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