It wasn't long before Mavis got

Mavis Cox lost. She looked around, but

all she could see were trees.
Nervously, she felt into her
and the bag for her favourite toy,

Three Fuzzy
Puppies
A Fairy Tale by Vivian
Once upon a time there was
a thoughtless girl called Mavis
Cox. She was on the way to
see her Sharon Clifford, when
she decided to take a short
Piglet, but Piglet was nowhere
cut through New Swamp.
to be found! Mavis began to
panic. She felt sure she had
packed Piglet. To make
matters worse, she was
starting to feel hungry.

Unexpectedly, she saw a fuzzy

puppy dressed in a yellow
bowler hat disappearing into
the trees.
"How odd!" thought Mavis. be impolite to eat
a whole house, but perhaps it
For the want of anything
would be considered
better to do, she decided to
acceptable to nibble the odd
follow the peculiarly dressed
fixture or lick the odd fitting,
puppy. Perhaps it could tell
in a time of need.
him the way out of the forest.
A cackle broke through the
Eventually, Mavis reached a
air, giving Mavis a fright. A
clearing. She found herself
witch jumped into the space
surrounded by houses made
in front of the houses. She
from different sorts of food.
was carrying a cage. In that
There was a house made from
cage was Piglet!
lettuces, a house made from
macarons, a house made from
chocolates and a house made
from pancakes.

"Piglet!" shouted Mavis. She

turned to the witch. "That's
my toy!"

The witch just shrugged.

Mavis could feel her tummy "Give Piglet back!" cried
rumbling. Looking at the Mavis.
houses did nothing to ease
her hunger. "Not on your nelly!" said the
witch.
"Hello!" she called. "Is
anybody there?" "At least let Piglet out of that
cage!"
Nobody replied.
Before she could reply, three
Mavis looked at the roof on fuzzy puppies rushed in from
the closest house and a footpath on the other side
wondered if it would be rude of the clearing. Mavis
to eat somebody else's recognised the one in the
chimney. Obviously it would yellow bowler hat that she'd
seen earlier. The witch "That's nothing," said the next
seemed to recognise him too. puppy. "I could
eat two houses."
"Hello Big Puppy," said the
witch.

"Good morning." The puppy

noticed Piglet. "Who is this?"

"That's Piglet," explained the

witch.

"Ooh! Piglet would look lovely

in my house. Give it to me!"
demanded the puppy.

The witch shook her head.

"Piglet is staying with me."

"Um... Excuse me..." Mavis

interrupted. "Piglet lives with "There's no need to show off,"
me! And not in a cage!" said the witch. Just eat one
front door and I'll let you
have Piglet."

Mavis watched, feeling very

worried. She didn't want the
witch to give Piglet to Big
Puppy. She didn't think Piglet
would like living with a fuzzy
Big Puppy ignored her. "Is puppy, away from her house
there nothing you'll trade?" and all her other toys.
he asked the witch.
The other two puppies
The witch thought for a watched while Big Puppy put
moment, then said, "I do like on his bib and withdrew a
to be entertained. I'll release knife and fork from his
him to anybody who can eat pocket.
a whole front door."
"I'll eat this whole house,"
Big Puppy looked at the house said Big Puppy. "Just you
made from pancakes and said, watch!"
"No problem, I could eat an
Big Puppy pulled off a corner
entire house made from
of the front door of the house
pancakes if I wanted to."
made from macarons. He
gulped it down smiling, and
went back for more.
 And more.

And more. "I'll eat this whole house,"

said Average Puppy. "Just you
Eventually, Big Puppy started
watch!"
to get bigger - just a little
bit bigger at first. But after Average Puppy pulled off a
a few more fork-fulls of corner of the front door of
macarons, he grew to the size the house made from
of a large snowball - and he chocolates. She gulped it
was every bit as round. down smiling, and went back
for more.
"Erm... I don't feel too good,"
said Big Puppy. And more.

Suddenly, he started to roll. And more.

He'd grown so round that he
After a while, Average Puppy
could no longer balance!
started to look a little queasy.
"Help!" he cried, as he rolled She grew greener...
off down a slope into the
...and greener.
forest.

Big Puppy never finished

eating the front door made
from macarons and Piglet
remained trapped in the
witch's cage.

Average Puppy stepped up,

and approached the house
made from chocolates.

A woodcutter walked into the

clearing. "What's this bush
doing here?" he asked.

"I'm not a bush, I'm a puppy!"

said Average Puppy.
"It talks!" exclaimed the smiling, and went back for
woodcutter. "Those talking more.
bushes are the worst kind. I'd
And more.
better take it away before
somebody gets hurt." And more.

"No! Wait!" cried Average After five or six platefuls,

Puppy, as the woodcutter Little Puppy started to fidget
picked her up. But the uncomfortably on the spot.
woodcutter ignored her cries
He stopped eating pancakes
and carried the puppy away
for a moment, then grabbed
under his arm.
another forkful.
Average Puppy never finished
But before he could eat it,
eating the front door made
there came an almighty roar.
from chocolates and Piglet
A bottom burp louder than a
remained trapped in the
rocket taking off, propelled
witch's cage.
Little Puppy into the sky.
Little Puppy stepped up, and
"Aggghhhhhh!" cried Little
approached the house made
Puppy. "I'm scared of heigh..."
from pancakes.
Little Puppy was never seen
again.
"I'll eat this whole house,"
said Little Puppy. "Just you Little Puppy never finished
watch!" eating the front door made
from pancakes and Piglet
remained trapped in the
witch's cage.

"That's it," said the witch. "I

win. I get to keep Piglet."

"Not so fast," said Mavis.

"There is still one front door
to go. The front door of the
house made from lettuces.
And I haven't had a turn yet.

"I don't have to give you a

turn!" laughed the witch. "My
Little Puppy pulled off a game. My rules."
corner of the front door of
the house made from
pancakes. He gulped it down
 "I haven't finished," explained
Mavis. "I am just waiting for
my food to go down."

When Mavis's food had

digested, she broke off
another piece of the door
made from lettuces. Once
more, she toasted her food
over the fire and waited for
it to cool just a little. She
ate it at a leisurely pace then
The woodcutter's voice carried waited for it to digest.
through the forest. "I think
Eventually, after several
you should give her a chance.
sittings, Mavis was down to
It's only fair."
the final piece of the door
"Fine," said the witch. "But made from lettuces. Carefully,
you saw what happened to the she toasted it and allowed it
puppies. She won't last long." to cool just a little. She
finished her final course.
"I'll be right back," said Mavis.
Mavis had eaten the entire
"What?" said the witch. front door of the house made
"Where's your sense of from lettuces.
impatience? I thought you
The witch stamped her foot
wanted Piglet back."
angrily. "You must have
Mavis ignored the witch and tricked me!" she said. "I don't
gathered a hefty pile of reward cheating!"
sticks. She came back to the
"I don't think so!" said a
clearing and started a small
voice. It was the woodcutter.
camp fire. Carefully, she
He walked back into the
broke off a piece of the door
clearing, carrying his axe.
of the house made from
"This little girl won fair and
lettuces and toasted it over
square. Now hand over Piglet
the fire. Once it had cooked
or I will chop your broomstick
and cooled just a little, she
in half."
took a bite. She quickly
devoured the whole piece. The witch looked horrified.
She grabbed her broomstick
Mavis sat down on a nearby
and placed it behind her.
log.
Then, huffing, she opened the
"You fail!" cackled the witch. door of the cage.
"You were supposed to eat the
whole door."
Mavis hurried over and
grabbed Piglet, checking that
her favourite toy was all
right. Fortunately, Piglet was
unharmed.

Mavis thanked the woodcutter,

grabbed a quick souvenir, and
hurried on to meet Sharon. It
was starting to get dark.

When Mavis got to Sharon's

house, her threw her arms
around her.

"I was so worried!" cried

Sharon. "You are very late."

As Mavis described her day,

she could tell that Sharon
didn't believe her. So she
grabbed a napkin from her
pocket.

"What's that?" asked Sharon.

Mavis unwrapped a doorknob

made from macarons.
"Pudding!" she said.

Sharon almost fell off her

chair.

The End