Wiggles - David R. Wood (reading books for 6 year olds .TXT) 📗

Hello there my name is "Wiggles" and I'm a Woim
No not a worm! A woim... (WO - IME)
Also known as a Swallowtail Caterpillar
You see worms do not have eyes, or a mouth, and I do.
That is how I can talk to you.
I also have lots of little feet that help me climb things,
like sticks, and branches, like the one I'm on now.

They also help me to escape things like those
Quackers over there (Ducklings)



OH OH! They have seen me!
Leaping from the stick to the back of a wagon
I hope they can't get me before I can hide in here.



I'm right up there on their food list too!
I would make a tasty treat for one of them if they catch
me in the back of this old wagon.
I will wait until nightfall right here behind this broken
board.

Then they will have to go into hiding
themselves because then Waskly Fox will be out
looking for a duckling dinner.
Waskly Fox is very sneaky.

If he don't get them then Flash Hooter might.
Flash Hooter is a big old barn Owl, she has very keen
eye sight in the dark with those big eyes of hers.
Old Flash won't bother with me because I'm way to
small for her to make a meal out of.



Sniff...Sniff...

What is that delicious smell?
It is making me very hungry...Sniff Sniff Sniff
Yummy... It smells like my favorite treat

Apples!

I want that apple so bad I can taste it from here, but I
have to wait until darkness so the Quackers don't eat
me first.
I just have to have a bite of that apple.

The sun is starting to set, in a few more minutes I will
wiggle a little then go into a full scale run.
Those Quackers are heading for their momma now.
Now is my chance...

Slowly and cautiously Wiggles starts to move out from
behind the board that he was hiding behind.
Up over the side of the waggon he goes, the tiny little
hairs acting as his feet moving faster and faster until
Wiggles gets off of the waggon, and is on the ground
following the delicious scent of the apple that he is
craving to have a bite from.

Well what do you know an apple, and laying there all by it’s self.



With no one around to eat it but little ole me
And the scent from its tasty meat is making me very hungry.

Wiggling at first and then going into a full scale run.
Using the hairs underneath my body the way people use there feet.

Aah yes’s…..

Nothing like a delicious apple lying on the ground with no one around to eat it.
And it’s all mine…

Chomp…..Chomp…..Chomp

Smacking my lips and slurping the juice with my lips.

Hey!!!

Now wait one dag-gone minute!
That was not me chomping, what’s going on here?
Holy Raisin Muffin!
Those are some extra large teeth, and they just missed me.
I’m out of this apple before those teeth bite me next.

I should have known… those teeth belong to the one and only Bandit. Bandit Raccoon that is.
And I got out just in time too.




Bandit was just sinking his large teeth into the apple, and carrying it down to the water to wash it off. Because that’s what Raccoons do before they eat anything is to wash it off.

KA - BLAM!

Splash… Oh No! Bandit dropped the apple.
And it rolled down hill into the water.
I hope Bandit can get that delicious apple before it floats too far away.

KA - BLAM KA - BLAM

Bandit got soaked by what ever was causing those monstrous splashes in the water.

Text: Copyright 2009 by David R. Wood All rights reserved No part of this story may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or means without the prior written permission of the author, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine, or journal.
Publication Date: 07-24-2009

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Dedication:
I wish to dedicate this book to my grand-children. Tyler, Colin, Curtis, Sabrina, Savannah, Samantha, and Kaitlyn. May each one of you never forget how to be a child at heart.