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Date: 24 May 2010 13:43:36
This is from the second book called "Bonzo and Friends go to the theatre".
Chapter Five
The toys stood still. The two cats were gob-smacked!
“Has this happened before?”, asked the bigger cat in a whisper.
Trixie Dog nodded. “It took us to a big country house in the year 1808. Elizabeth and Roisin talked to a cat there, called Sasha”.
The toys were already trotting into the summer house. They gathered in the space just beyond the door. Trixie left the shocked cats and went to join the others. They waited. Slowly, as before, the door swung shut. The toys huddled together, some snuggling themselves again deep into Christie Bear’s thick white fur. They closed their eyes, as around them, the summer house started to shake and make a sound like rushing, howling wind, like it had before. Most of the toys had been through this once, but it had been a while, and that howling noise was really scary! Mia, Bonnie and Cherry weren’t there the last time, so they were terrified.
“What’s happening to us?” squealed Bonnie. “I don’t like this!”.
Bonzo and Harvey reached out their paws to the bear, the dog, and the white rabbit. They all held on tightly as the house continued to shake, whine, moan and howl.
“We’re travelling back through time”, said Bonzo, as everything rushed by in a blur. “The one thing we don’t know is where we’re going…”.
The summer house was slowing down. The toys were still scared. They clung to each other, as the howling and whining died away to silence and everything, finally, was still. The toys didn’t move. They needed to be absolutely sure that everything had stopped moving. Finally, Bonzo felt that it was safe to move and to breathe again. He opened his eyes, and took a deep breath in and let it out, in a sigh of relief…
“Oh good grief! What a disgusting smell!”.
Chapter Six
“Well, I don’t know where we are” said Bonzo, who was finding the awful stench very difficult, “but it smells like the bathroom when Mr Wheeler comes home from work”.
“Worse than that” said Arthur, briefly removing his paw from his nose, “much, much, much worse!”.
Mia, Bonnie, Cherry and Christie, being very lady-like toys, had found a wall to clamber on to. They had been looking at the muck and filth that was flowing all over the cobbled ground, and there was no way they were letting their fur come into contact with that. Water was bad enough, but this….All of them shuddered at the mere thought of it! As Cherry and Christie were snow white in colour, they were particularly horrified by what they were seeing….and smelling. There was no escaping that!
The toys appeared to be in a courtyard of some sort. There was no one about, although the noise coming from somewhere close by was loud. It sounded like lots of people. The more you breathed in, the worse the smell made you feel. It was truly awful. Be it the bathroom, or his smelly shoes and socks, Bonzo made a mental note never to think anything nasty about what Mr Wheeler smelt like sometimes, ever again! The puppy looked about him. He was more than a little bit scared, which, as you know, is strange for Bonzo. He turned back and looked at the other toys behind him. They all looked as worried as he felt.
“Okay” said Bonzo. “Let’s explore….but keep close to the buildings. Go underneath the bit that sticks out of the top floors. It’s dark and no one should be able to see us”.