The Longest Story Ever by Andrew Wooding - Day #11

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Charlie the Dog and Ethel were visiting their local tree centre. Why were they there? To buy a tree, of course!

Except there was a tree on the loose. It had two eyes that blinked and legs for running around on. Right now it was catching its breath in a corner of the tree centre.

‘B-but, sir,’ said Ethel. ‘That tree that was running…’

‘Quiet, Ethel,’ snapped Charlie. ‘I don’t believe a word of it. Stop pestering me. I’m trying to find a tree for our back garden.’

An energetic boy called Nigel was running up to the tree.

‘Way-hey!’ he squealed. ‘Another tree for me to climb. Fantastic!’

As well as climbing trees, Nigel also loved dressing up as a cowboy. He had a cowboy hat on, a cowboy waistjacket, cowboy jeans and a long winding rope with a loop on the end for rounding up cows.

‘Ride ‘em cowboy. Yee-haaa!’ he yelled as he twirled his rope above his head.

Nigel was also wearing cowboy shoes with sharp spurs on. It was a very warm day so the spurs were hot, and Nigel was from Tottenham. This meant that he was wearing … Tottenham Hot-Spurs! Ha ha!

(If anyone was actually reading this story, they would have said: ‘Boo. That’s a terrible joke!’ So it’s a good job no one’s reading it, then, isn’t it?)

Anyway, within seconds Nigel had eagerly jumped up onto the tree and was quickly shinning up it.

‘Ow! Ow! Ow!’ This was coming from the tree. The tree was going ‘Ow! Ow! Ow!’ because Nigel’s sharp spurs were digging into its trunk.

Very painful. In fact, the tree was in so much pain that it hopped and skipped round the tree centre in agony, with Nigel on its back.

Nigel was really enjoying this. He felt like the bravest of cowboys riding a bucking bronco or a runaway horse.

‘Yee-haaa!’ he yelled. ‘This is amazing!’

As hard as it is to believe, tomorrow’s exciting instalment is going to be even more amazing…


Today’s total: 339 words (Total so far: 3,597 words)