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Three Chicklets
Gruff |
Once upon a time there were three chicklets, who wanted to hop
down a trail to find a cache.
On the way up was a bridge over a cascading stream they had to
cross; and under the bridge lived a great ugly troll, with eyes as
big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker.
| So first of all came the youngest chick to cross
the bridge.
"Trip, trap, trip, trap! " went the bridge.
"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll
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"Oh, it is only I, the tiniest Chicklet, and I'm going to find a
cache," said the chick, with such a small voice, barely making a
peep. |
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"Now, I'm coming to gobble you up!" said the troll.
"Oh, no! pray don't take me. I'm too little, that I am," said
the chick. "Wait a bit till the second Chicklet comes. She's much
bigger."
"Well, be off with you," said the troll.
A little while after came the second chick to cross the
bridge.
Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap, went the bridge.
"Who's that tripping over my bridge?"
roared the troll.
"Oh, it's the second Chicklet, and I'm going to find a cache,"
said the chick, who crowed a little louder.
"Now I'm coming to gobble you up!" said
the troll.
"Oh, no! Don't take me. Wait a little till the biggest Chicklet
comes. She's much bigger."
"Very well! Be off with you," said the
troll.
But just then up came the big chick...
Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap! went the bridge, for the
Chicklet was so heavy that the bridge creaked and groaned under
her.
"Who's that tramping over my bridge?"
roared the troll.
"It's I! The big Chicklet," said the chick, with a screech.
"Now I 'm coming to gobble you up," roared
the troll.
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"Well, come along! I've got sharp claws,
And I'll scratch out face and your eyeballs;
I've got besides two curling-stones,
And I'll crush you to bits, body and
bones." |
That was what the chicklet said. And then she flew at the troll,
and poked his eyes out with her claws, and crushed him to bits,
body and bones, and tossed him out into the cascade, and after that
she went to the cache.
On their return trip, having successfully found that cache, the
Three Chicklets decided to commemorate their victory over the
troll.
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O reader, never fear
A geocache was placed here!
Snip, snap, snout.
This tale's told out. |