Chapter Ten

by Ruth Stiles Gannett

　　MY FATHER FINDS THE DRAGON

　　When my father was crossing the back of the fifteenth crocodile withtwo more lollipops to go, the noise of the monkeys suddenly stopped,and he could hear a much bigger noise getting louder every second.Then he could hear seven furious tigers and one raging rhinoceros andtwo seething lions and one ranting gorilla along with countlessscreeching monkeys, led by two extremely irate wild boars, allyelling, "It's a trick! It's a trick! There's an invasion and it mustbe after our dragon. Kill it! Kill it!" The whole crowd stampeded downto the bank.

　　As my father was fixing the seventeenth lollipop for the lastcrocodile he heard a wild boar scream, "Look, it came this way! It'sover there now, see! The crocodiles made a bridge for it," and just asmy father leapt onto the other bank one of the wild boars jumped ontothe back of the first crocodile. My father didn't have a moment tospare.