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as I said, tonight is

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part two of My

5:18

Father's Dragon by Ruth

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Stiles Gannett. This

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is a delightfully whimsical story to read. And

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chapter five. I believe,

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so we're moving on to chapter six. Chapter

5:55

five is right after Mr.

5:57

Elmer Elevator. escapes

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some tigers on

6:03

his way to go save the dragon. So

6:07

now we follow Elmer Elevator as his

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journey continues into

6:12

the wild island. So

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tonight I hope you can sleep soundly

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to part two of My Father's Dragon

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by Ruth Styles Ganet. Now

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is the time for you to fluff up

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your pillow just how you like it. Feel

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yourself melt into your bed. Get

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real comfortable. Close

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your eyes and

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let me read to you. Chapter

6:58

6 My Father

7:00

Meets a Rhinoceros My

7:05

father soon found a trail leading away from

7:07

the clearing. All sorts

7:09

of animals might be using it too, but

7:12

he decided to follow the trail no matter what

7:14

he meant because it might lead to the

7:16

dragon. He

7:18

kept a sharp lookout in front and behind

7:20

and went on. Just

7:24

as he was feeling quite safe, he

7:26

came around a curve right behind two wild

7:28

boars. One

7:31

of them was saying to the other, do

7:33

you know that the tortoises thought they

7:36

saw a monkey carrying his sick grandmother

7:38

to the doctors last night? The monkey's

7:40

grandmother died a week ago, so

7:43

they must have seen something else. I

7:45

wonder what it was. I

7:50

told you that there was an invasion of Pho, said the

7:52

other boar, and I intend to find

7:54

out what it is. I

7:56

simply can't stand invasions. Neem

8:00

either, said a tiny little voice. I

8:03

mean, me neither. And

8:05

my father knew that the mouse was there too. Well,

8:10

said the first boar, you search

8:12

the trail up this way to the dragon. I'll

8:15

go back down to the other way, through

8:17

the big clearing, and we'll send mouse to watch

8:19

the ocean rocks in case the invasion should decide

8:21

to go away before we find it. My

8:27

father hid behind a mahogany tree just in time, and the

8:29

first boar walked right past him. My

8:33

father waited for the other boar to get a head start on

8:35

him, but he didn't

8:38

wait very long because he knew that when the first

8:40

boar saw the tigers chewing gum in

8:42

the clearing, he'd be even more suspicious.

8:49

Soon the trail crossed a little brook, and my father, who

8:52

by this time was very close to me, was

8:55

very thirsty, stopped to get a drink of water. He

8:59

still had on his rubber boots, so

9:01

he waited into a little pool of water and

9:04

was stooping down when something quite sharp picked him

9:06

up by the seat of the pants and

9:08

shook him very hard. Don't

9:12

you know that's my private weeping pool,

9:14

said a deep angry voice. My

9:19

father couldn't see who was talking because he was

9:21

hanging in the air right over the pool, but

9:24

he said, oh no, I'm

9:26

so sorry. I didn't

9:28

know that everybody had a private weeping

9:31

pool. Everybody

9:34

doesn't, said the angry voice, but

9:37

I do because I have such a big thing to weep

9:39

about, and I drown everybody

9:41

I find using my weeping pool. With

9:46

that, the animal tossed my father up and down

9:48

over the water. What

9:52

is it that you weep about

9:55

so much? Asked my father, trying

9:58

to get his breath. and

10:00

he thought over all the things he had in his pack. Oh,

10:05

I have many things to weep about, but

10:07

the biggest thing is the color of my tusk. My

10:12

father squirmed every which way trying to see the

10:14

tusk, but it was through

10:16

the seat of his pants where he couldn't possibly see it.

10:20

When I was a young rhinoceros, my

10:23

tusk was pearly white, said the animal,

10:26

and then my father knew that he was hanging

10:28

by the seat of his pants from a rhinoceros'

10:31

tusk. But

10:33

it has turned to nasty yellow-gray in my

10:35

old age, and I find it

10:37

very ugly. You

10:40

see, everything else about me is ugly, but

10:43

when I had a beautiful tusk, I

10:45

didn't worry so much about the rest. Now

10:49

that my tusk is ugly too, I

10:51

can't sleep nights just thinking about how completely

10:53

ugly I am, and

10:55

I weep all the time. But

10:59

why should I be telling you these things? I

11:01

caught you using my pool, and now I'm going

11:04

to drown you. Oh,

11:09

wait a minute, rhinoceros, said my father.

11:11

I have some things

11:13

that will make your tusk all white and beautiful

11:15

again. Just let me

11:17

down, and I'll give them to you. The

11:22

rhinoceros, said him. You do? I

11:25

can hardly believe it. Why? I'm so excited. He

11:30

put my father down and danced around in a circle while

11:32

my father got out the tube of toothpaste and the toothbrush.

11:34

Now, said my father, just move your tusk a little

11:39

nearer, please, and

11:42

I'll show you how to begin. My father wet

11:44

the brush in the pool,

11:49

squeezed on a dab of toothpaste, and scrubbed very hard

11:52

in one tiny spot. Then

11:56

he told the rhinoceros to wash it off, and

11:59

when the pool was calm again, I was very happy. He told

12:01

the rhinoceros to look in the water and see

12:03

how white the little spot was. It

12:08

was hard to see him in the dim light of the jungle, but

12:11

sure enough, the spot shone pearly

12:13

white, just like new. The

12:18

rhinoceros was so pleased that he grabbed

12:20

the toothbrush and began scrubbing violently, forgetting

12:23

all about my father. Just

12:27

then, my father heard hoof steps, and

12:30

he jumped behind the rhinoceros. It

12:34

was the boar coming back from the big clearing

12:36

when the tigers were chewing gum. The

12:40

boar looked at the rhinoceros and

12:42

at the toothbrush and at the tube

12:44

of toothpaste, and then he

12:46

scratched his ear on a tree. Tell

12:50

me, rhinoceros, he said. Where

12:52

did you get that fine tube of

12:54

toothpaste and that toothbrush? Too

12:58

busy, said the rhinoceros, and

13:01

he went on brushing as hard as he could. The

13:06

boar sniffed angrily and trotted down the

13:08

trail toward the dragon, muttering

13:10

to himself. Very

13:12

suspicious. Tigers too

13:15

busy chewing gum. Rhinoceros

13:17

too busy brushing his tusk. Must

13:20

get hold of that invasion. Don't

13:23

like it one bit, not one bit. It's

13:26

upsetting everybody terribly. Wonder

13:29

what it's doing here, anyway. Chapter

13:37

7 My

13:39

Father Meets a Lion My

13:44

father waved goodbye to the rhinoceros, who

13:46

was much too busy to notice. Got

13:49

a drink farther down the brook and

13:51

waded back to the trail. He

13:55

hadn't gone very far when he heard an angry

13:57

animal roaring. Ding

13:59

blasted. had told you

14:01

not to go blackberrying yesterday. Won't

14:04

you ever learn? What will

14:06

your mother say?" My

14:11

father crept along and peered into his small

14:13

clearing just ahead. A line

14:16

was prancing about, clawing at his mane,

14:19

which was all snarled and full of blackberry

14:21

twigs. The

14:25

more he clawed, the worse it became,

14:27

and the madder he grew, and the more

14:29

he yelled at himself because it was himself

14:32

he was yelling at all the time. My

14:37

father could see that the trail went through the

14:39

clearing, so he decided to

14:41

crawl around the edge in the underbrush and

14:43

not disturb the lion. He

14:47

crawled and crawled, and the yelling

14:49

grew louder and louder. Just

14:51

as he was about to reach the trail on the other

14:53

side, the yelling suddenly stopped.

14:57

My father looked around and saw the lion glaring

15:00

at him. The

15:02

lion charged and skidded to a stop a

15:04

few inches away. Who

15:10

are you? The lion yelled at my father.

15:14

My name is Elmer Elevator. Where

15:18

do you think you're going? I'm

15:21

going home, said my father.

15:23

That's what you think, said

15:25

the lion. Ordinarily,

15:28

I'd save you for afternoon tea, but

15:31

I happen to be upset enough and hungry enough to

15:33

eat you right now. And

15:37

he picked up my father in his front paws

15:39

to feel how fat he was. My

15:44

father said, oh please lion,

15:46

before you eat me, tell

15:48

me why you are so particularly upset today.

15:53

It's my main, said the lion, as

15:55

he was figuring how many bites a little boy would

15:57

make. You see what

15:59

a dread pitiful mess it is, and

16:02

I don't seem to be able to do anything about it. My

16:06

mother is coming over on the dragon

16:08

this afternoon, and if she sees me

16:10

this way, I'm afraid she'll stop my

16:12

allowance. She

16:14

can't stand messy manes, and

16:17

I'm going to eat you now, so I won't

16:19

make any difference to you." Oh,

16:22

wait a minute, said my father, and

16:25

I'll give you just the things you need to make

16:27

your mane all tidy and beautiful. I have

16:30

them here in my pack. You

16:34

do, said the lion. Well,

16:36

give them to me, and perhaps

16:38

I'll save you for afternoon tea after all.

16:42

And he put my father down on the ground. My

16:48

father opened the pack and took out the

16:51

comb and brush and the seven hair ribbons

16:53

of different colors. Look,

16:55

he said, I'll show you what to

16:57

do on your forelock where you

16:59

can watch me. First,

17:02

you brush a while, and then you

17:04

comb, and then you brush again

17:06

until all the twigs and snarls are gone. Then

17:10

you divide it up in three and braid

17:12

it like this and tie a ribbon

17:14

around the end. As

17:19

my father was doing this, the

17:21

lion watched very carefully and

17:23

began to look much happier. When

17:28

my father tied on the ribbon, he

17:30

was all smiles. Oh,

17:33

that's wonderful, really wonderful, said the

17:35

lion. Let me

17:37

have the comb and brush and see if I

17:39

can do it. So

17:42

my father gave him the comb and brush

17:44

and the lion began busily grooming his mane.

17:47

As a matter of fact, he was

17:49

so busy that he didn't even know when

17:52

my father left. Chapter

17:59

8 My father meets

18:01

a gorilla. My

18:05

father was very hungry, so

18:07

he sat down under a baby banyan tree

18:09

on the side of the trail and ate

18:12

four tangerines. He

18:15

wanted to eat eight or ten, but

18:17

he only had thirteen left, and it

18:19

might be a long time before he could get more. He

18:24

packed away all the peels and

18:26

was about to get up when he heard the

18:28

familiar voices of the boars. I

18:32

wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen

18:34

them with my own eyes, but

18:37

wait and see for yourself. All

18:39

the tigers are sitting around chewing gum to beat

18:41

the band. Old

18:44

Rhinoceros is so busy brushing his tusk, he

18:46

doesn't even look around to see who's going

18:49

by. And they're

18:51

all so busy, they won't even talk

18:53

to me. Horse

18:57

feathers, said the other boar, now

19:00

very close to my father. They'll

19:03

talk to me. I'm going to

19:05

get to the bottom of this if it's the

19:07

last thing I do. The

19:11

voices passed my father and went around a

19:13

curb, and he hurried on

19:15

because he knew how much more upset the boars

19:18

would be when they saw the lion's

19:20

mane tied up in hair ribbons. Before

19:25

long, my father came to a crossroads, and he stopped

19:27

to read the signs. Straight

19:32

ahead, an arrow pointed to the beginning of

19:34

the river, to the left

19:36

of the ocean rocks, and to

19:38

the right to the dragon fairy. My

19:43

father was reading all these signs when he heard

19:45

paw steps and ducked behind the signpost. A

19:50

beautiful lioness paraded past and turned down

19:52

toward the clearings. Although

19:56

she could have seen my father if she had bothered to glance. at

20:00

the post. She was too

20:02

much occupied, looking dignified to see anything but

20:04

the tip of her own nose. It

20:09

was the lion's mother, of course, and

20:11

that, thought my father, must mean that the dragon

20:13

was on this side of the river. He

20:18

hurried on, but it was farther away than he

20:20

had judged. He

20:22

finally came to the riverbank in the late

20:24

afternoon and looked all around, but

20:27

there was no dragon anywhere in sight. He

20:30

must have gone back to the other side. My

20:35

father sat down under a palm tree

20:37

and was trying to have a good idea

20:39

when something big and black and hairy jumped

20:41

out from the tree and landed

20:43

with a loud crash at his feet. Well,

20:49

said a huge voice. Well

20:51

what, said my father, for which

20:54

he was very sorry when he looked up

20:56

and discovered he was talking to an enormous

20:58

and very fierce gorilla. Well,

21:02

explain yourself, said the gorilla. I'll

21:05

give you till ten to tell me your

21:07

name, business, your age, and

21:09

what's in that pack. And

21:12

he began counting to ten as fast as

21:14

he could. My

21:20

father didn't even have time to say

21:22

elm or elevator, explore, before

21:24

the gorilla interrupted. Too

21:27

slow. I'll twist your

21:29

arms the way I twist that dragon's wings, and

21:32

then we'll see if you can't hurry up a bit. He

21:36

grabbed my father's arms, one

21:38

on each fist, and was about to twist

21:40

them when he suddenly let go

21:42

and began scratching his chest with both hands.

21:47

Blast those fleas, he raged. They

21:50

won't give you a moment's peace. And

21:53

the worst of it is, you can't even get a good

21:55

look at them. Rosie,

21:58

Rhoda, Rachel. Ruthie, Ruby,

22:01

Roberta, come here and

22:04

get rid of this flea on my chest. It's

22:06

driving me crazy. Six

22:10

little monkeys tumbled out of the palm tree,

22:13

dashed to the gorilla, and began

22:15

combing the hair on his chest. Well,

22:19

said the gorilla, it's still there. We're

22:23

looking, we're looking, said the

22:25

six little monkeys. But they're

22:27

awfully hard to see, you know. I

22:31

know, said the gorilla. But hurry,

22:34

I've got work to do. And

22:36

he winked at my father. Oh,

22:40

gorilla, said my father. In my

22:43

knobsack, I have six magnifying glasses.

22:46

They'd be just a thing for hunting fleas. My

22:50

father unpacked them and gave one to

22:52

Rosie, one to Rhoda, one

22:55

to Rachel, one to Ruthie, one

22:57

to Ruby, and one to Roberta. Why,

23:01

they're miraculous, said the six

23:03

little monkeys. It's

23:06

easy to see the fleas now. Only

23:09

there are hundreds of them. And

23:11

they went on hunting frantically. A

23:16

moment later, many more monkeys

23:18

appeared out of a nearby clump of

23:20

mangroves and began crowding around to

23:22

get a look at the fleas through the

23:24

magnifying glasses. They

23:27

completely surrounded the gorilla, and he could not see

23:29

my father, nor did he remember to twist

23:32

his arms. Chapter

23:38

9 My father makes a

23:41

bridge. My

23:46

father walked back and forth along the bay, trying to think

23:48

of some way to cross the river. He

23:52

found a high flagpole with a rope going over to the other side.

23:57

The rope went through a loop to the top of the pole. and

24:00

then down the pole and around a

24:02

large crank. A

24:05

sign on the crank said, The

24:07

summoned dragon yanked the crank, for

24:10

poor disorderly conduct to a gorilla. From

24:16

what the cat had told my father, he knew

24:18

that the other end of the rope was tied

24:20

around the dragon's neck, and

24:22

he felt sorrier than ever for the poor dragon.

24:27

If he were on this side, the gorilla

24:29

would twist his wings until it hurt so

24:31

much that he'd have to fly to the

24:33

other side. If

24:36

he were on the other side, the gorilla

24:38

would crank the rope until the dragon would either

24:40

choke to death or fly back to

24:42

this side. What

24:45

a life for a baby dragon. My

24:50

father knew that if he called to the dragon

24:52

to come across the river, the

24:54

gorilla would surely hear him, so

24:57

he thought about climbing the pole and going across on

24:59

the rope. The

25:02

pole was very high, and

25:04

even if he could get to the top without

25:06

being seen, he'd have to go

25:08

all the way across hand over hand. The

25:13

river was very muddy, and all

25:15

sorts of unfriendly things might live in it, but

25:19

my father could think of no other way to get

25:21

across. He

25:23

was about to start up the pole when,

25:25

despite all the noise the monkeys

25:27

were making, he heard a loud

25:29

splash behind him. He

25:33

looked all around in the water, but it was dusk

25:36

now, and he couldn't see anything there. It's

25:40

me, crocodile, said a voice to

25:42

the left. The water's

25:44

lovely, and I have such a craving

25:46

for something sweet. Won't

25:48

you come in for a swim? A

25:54

pale moon came out from behind the clouds, and

25:57

my father could see where the voice was coming from.

26:01

The crocodile's head was just peeping out of the

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water. Oh,

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no thank you, said my father. I

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never swim after sundown, but

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I do have something sweet to offer you. Perhaps

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you'd like a lollipop, and

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perhaps you have friends who would like lollipops,

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too. Lollipop,

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said the crocodile. Why,

26:27

that is a tree. How

26:29

about it, boys? A

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whole chorus of voices

26:35

shouted, hoorah, lollipops. My

26:38

father counted as many as 17 crocodiles with

26:40

their heads just peeping out of the water.

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That's fine, said my father, as he got

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out the two dozen pink lollipops in the

26:50

rubber bands. I'll stick

26:52

one here in the bank. Lollipops

26:55

last longer if you keep them out of the water, you

26:57

know. Now one

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of you can have this one. The

27:05

crocodile who had first spoken swam up

27:07

and tasted it. Delicious,

27:10

mighty delicious, he said. Now

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if you don't mind, said my father, I'll

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just walk along your back and fasten another

27:18

lollipop to the tip of your tail with

27:21

a rubber band. You

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don't mind, do you? Oh

27:28

no, not in the leaves, said the crocodile.

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Can you get your tail out of the water just a

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bit, asked my father. Yes,

27:37

of course, said the crocodile, and

27:39

he lifted up his tail. Then

27:43

my father ran along his back and

27:45

fastened another lollipop with a rubber band.

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Who's next, said my father, and the

27:53

second crocodile swam up and began

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sucking on that lollipop. Now,

27:59

the agenda. can save a lot of time if

28:01

you just line up across the river," said my

28:03

father, and I'll be along

28:06

to give you each a lollipop." So

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the crocodiles lined up right across the river

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with their tails in the air, waiting

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for my father to fasten on the rest of

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the lollipops. The

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tail of the 17th crocodile just reached the

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other bay. Chapter

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10. My Father

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Finds the Dragon When

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my father was crossing the back of the

28:37

15th crocodile with two more lollipops to go,

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the noise of the monkeys suddenly stopped, and

28:43

he could hear a much bigger noise getting louder

28:46

every second. Then

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he could hear seven furious tigers,

28:51

then one raging rhinoceros, and

28:54

two seething lions, and one ranting

28:56

gorilla along with countless screeching monkeys,

28:59

led by two extremely irate wild

29:02

boars, all yelling, It's

29:05

a trick, it's a trick. There's

29:07

an invasion, and it must be after

29:09

our dragon. Kill it,

29:11

kill it. The

29:13

whole crowd stampeded down the bank. As

29:19

my father was fixing the 17th lollipop

29:21

for the last crocodile, he

29:24

heard a wild boar scream, Look,

29:27

it came this way. It's

29:29

over there now, see? The

29:31

crocodiles made a bridge for it. Then

29:35

just as my father leapt onto the other bay,

29:38

one of the wild boars jumped onto the back

29:40

of the first crocodile. My

29:44

father didn't have a moment to spare. By

29:48

now the dragon realized that my father was coming

29:50

to rescue him. He

29:53

ran out of the bushes and jumped up and

29:55

down, yelling, Here I am. I'm

29:58

right here. Can you see me? Hurry,

30:01

the boar is coming over on the crocodiles

30:03

too. They're all coming over. Oh

30:07

please hurry, hurry. The

30:09

noise was simply terrific. My

30:16

father ran up to the dragon, took

30:18

out his very sharp jackknife. Steady,

30:22

old boy, steady. We'll

30:24

make it. Just stand still. He

30:27

told the dragon as he began to saw through the

30:29

big row. By

30:33

this time both boars, all seven

30:35

tigers, the two lions,

30:37

the rhinoceros, and the gorilla, along

30:40

with countless screeching monkeys, were all on

30:42

their way across the crocodiles. There

30:44

was still a lot of rope to cut through. Oh

30:49

hurry, the dragon kept saying, and

30:51

my father again told him to stand still. If

30:56

I don't think I can make it, said my father, we'll

30:59

fly over to the other side of the river, and

31:02

I can finish cutting the rope there. Suddenly

31:07

the screaming grew louder and madder, and

31:10

my father thought the animals must have crossed the

31:12

river. He

31:14

looked around and saw something which

31:16

surprised and delighted him. Partly

31:20

because he had finished his lollipop, and

31:23

partly because, as I told you

31:25

before, crocodiles are very moody and not

31:27

the least bit dependable, and

31:29

are always looking for something to eat. The

31:32

first crocodile had turned away from the bay

31:35

and started swimming down the river. The

31:40

second crocodile hadn't finished yet, so

31:43

he followed right after the first, still

31:45

sucking his lollipop. All

31:48

the rest did the same thing, one

31:50

right after the other, until they were all

31:52

swimming away in a line. The

31:56

two wild boars, the seven tigers,

31:58

the rhinoceros. The two lions, the

32:01

gorilla, along with the countless

32:03

screeching monkeys were all riding down the

32:06

middle of the river on the train

32:08

of crocodiles sucking pink lollipops, and

32:11

all yelling and screaming, and getting

32:13

their feet wet. My

32:17

father and the dragon laughed themselves weak because

32:19

it was such a silly sight. As

32:22

soon as they had recovered, my father

32:24

finished cutting the rope, and

32:27

the dragon raced around in circles and tried

32:29

to turn a somersault. He

32:32

was the most excited baby dragon that ever lived.

32:37

My father was in a hurry to fly away, and

32:40

when the dragon finally calmed down a bit, my

32:42

father climbed up onto his back. All

32:47

aboard, said the dragon, where

32:49

shall we go? We'll spend

32:51

the night on the beach,

32:55

and tomorrow we'll start on the long journey home.

32:58

So it's off to the shores of

33:00

Tangerine, shouted my father, as the dragon

33:02

soared above the dark jungle and the

33:05

muddy river, and all

33:07

the animals bellowing at them, and all

33:09

the crocodiles licking pink lollipops and grinning

33:11

wide grins. After

33:14

all, what did the crocodiles care

33:16

about a way to cross the river, and

33:19

what a fine feast they were carrying on their backs.

33:24

As my father and the dragon passed over

33:27

the ocean rocks, they heard

33:29

a tiny, excited voice scream, Bum-ka-bum-ka,

33:34

we'd read our naggin, I

33:36

mean, we need our dragon. But

33:41

my father and the dragon knew that nothing in the

33:43

world would ever make them go back to

33:45

Wild Island. The

33:48

End Thank

33:58

you for listening to Sleepy. Goodnight.