Mission 5
Fwirl stretched out in her bed. The DAB had been on a secret raid all afternoon and she was tired. She gently drifted into a wonderful dream...
She was in history lesson with Brother Hobert. She was so bored! Then, Brother Hobert said, "This is really boring isn't it? So I say...No more history lessons!" All the Dibbuns cheered and fled out of the classroom.
Fwirl tossed in her sleep. She turned over and drifted off...
She was in the orchard, eating all the fruits. There were autumn fuits, like almonds and chestnuts. There were summer fruits, like peaches and plums and strawberries and bilberries. On the East side of the Abbey it was snowing. All the Dibbuns were playing in the snow and throwing snowballs and building snow creatures. On the West it was sunny. All the Dibbuns were playing tug-of-war and sailing round the pond.
Fwirl sighed. She lay on her back. And dreamt...
It was the Midsummer feast and the Abbot had just said grace. They were all about to tuck in when the Abbot said something.
"Wait!" he said "in honor of all the nice things she's done, let's give all of the best food to Fwirl!"
Fwirl couldn't believe her ears. All of the nicest things on the table were coming towards her. Summer fuit salads, teabreads, walnut cheeses, summercream puddings, all manner of delights were coming towards her and she could smell them, see them, feel them and best of all, taste them. She could feel them funning down her throat and filling her stomach. She could taste them, seet and sour, tangy, salty, bitter, every flavor in the world running down her throat, down, down, down...
"Wake up, Fwirl!" Fwirl sat up and rubbed her eyes. Tangle stopped waking her up and left her to get up and went to breakfast. Fwirl sighed. Oh well, maybe she'd go there tonight.
Mission 8
Ma Mellus's heavy footsteps faded as she walked down teh stairs. My mind was racing frantically. I had too get out! Suddenly an idea popped into my head. The fake! I pulled the burlap sacks filled up with straw and dirty stuff out from under the bed. I changed them to look like an otter, covered them with my blanket, and retrieved the rope, grappling hook, and knife i had bought the day before. I knew they would come in handy! Then I tied the rope to the grappling hook. I got my friend and told her to conceal the grappling hook while I was gone. i didn't want to chance not being able to throw it back up. I attached the grappling hook to the windowsill, checked to mak sure the coast was clear, let the rope down and climbed down it, paw over paw. When I got down, I slowly creeped to the north wallgate. Quietly unlatching it, I pushed it forward, inch by inch. Hlding my knife ready, I silently crept through the woodlands, searching for my friend, Pikkle. I saw him sitting on the stump we had planned to meet at, waiting with a steamin' deeper 'n ever pie. "Wow!" I said. "How did you manage to steal that, matey?" He laughed and answered "Simple. The Foremole left four on the windowsill to cool overnight, and I just waited till nobeast was watching, strolled up easy as you please, grabbed it, and ran!" We both laughed while demolishing the pie. We talked about our next plan, finished the pie, and made our way cautiously back to the Abbey. We crept through the wallgate, split, and went our ways. I found the rope and silently climbed up to safety. My friend Scratchy was waiting. "Oh, there you are." she said. "Have fun?" I smiled and nodded. We both quietly creeped back to our beds, and Ma Mellus never found out!
Mission
"Awright, les' go!" Theena whispered as she and her band of Dastardly Dibbuns crept silently towards the kitchens. Their candied chestnut supply was running low, so they were out to get more.
"Here we..." Theena gasped. Where there should have been an easily opened pantry, there were elders holding scrubbing brushes! Theena turned to her band. "Run back to the dorm now! I'll explain later. Go!"
Once inside, an annoyed otter named Minka turned to Theena and said, "What was that for!" There were answering murmurs from the others. Theena explained what she saw. "There must be somebeast who told them we planned to raid tonight. We have to find out who it was, or our raiding nights are over!"
The next day Theena informed Tangle of what had happened. The hedgehog called a meeting of the Dibbun leaders and informed them of the situation. They were astonished. Tangle told them what to do, and they set off with the new plan.
They told every dibbun that the Dastardly Dibbuns were going to raid again that night. The leaders were supposed to watch the expressions on dibbun's faces and follow any who looked suspicious.
There was news at the end of the day. One weasel had gone away immediately at the news. Finnbarr had lost him, however. The weasel's name was Ariagi. He was new to DAB. Theena resolved to talk to him later.
Theena strode up to Ariagi that afternoon. He looked slightly nervous. Theena smiled sweetly and said, "So, do you like Redwall?" Ariagi nodded. Theena gave him a chestnut and kept talking. Ariagi began to relax.
When Ariagi was answering Theena's questions with "yes" every time, Theena asked, "Did you talk to the elders yesterday?"
"Yes."
"Did you tell them about our planned raid on the kitchens?"
"Yes."
Theena jumped up. "Traitor!" She yanked a blanket off her bed and flung it over him. "I got the traitor! Come on out!" From various hiding places in the dorm, Dibbuns emerged, looking angry. Tnagle and the other leaders came out and the first Dibbun trial was held.
Ariagi explained that the elders had threatened to give him a bath and make him go to bed early if he did not tell them about DAB's plans. "So I told them. What else could I have done?" he whined piteously.
Tangle replied, "You could have withstood the torture or called other Dibbuns to help you. We all would have helped. But you chose to betray us. So hear is the ver-ver-verdict -- guilty!" she announced, stumbling slightly over the big word.
Tangle continued over Ariagi's pleas for mercy. "The sentence is this--you will be relieved of all your candied chestnuts and demoted down to Sleepyhead. Should this happen again, you will be kicked out of DAB!"
It never happened again.
Mision #31
It was a beautiful summer day at Redwall Abbey. River Sling, Slingtail Da Otter, Swiftstream, Ruddingy, Tishi, Rose Treefwirl, Acorn Ashetail and Topaz were playing tag close to the berry patches while Sister Cicely and Mother Mellus watched the Dibbuns play.
"Hey, Rose," cried Slingtail, "I tagged you fair and square, you're it."
"You missed me," was Rose's reply, "and you're still it."
Swiftstream, grabbed Slingtail up and chased Rose down, "Here me, little matey, I'll help you."
They quickly caught Rose who giggled and said, "Hey, two against one isn't very fair."
"But you're much quicker than your brother and you have been climbing trees to escape and that's not fair either."
"I'll tell you what," River Sling the otter maid said shyly, "Let's not argue. It's too nice out here. Let's pick berries for supper instead. Maybe Friar Hugo will make a pie of them for supper!"
"That sounds great," said Swiftstream, "Hey, Tishi, did you bring a basket out by any chance?"
Tishi the Blue Cat smiled broadly, "I'm always prepared. I gave four to Muvver Mellus to hold for us."
The Dibbuns got the baskets and began to fill them. Topaz and River Sling picked strawberries, Rose Treefwirl and Acorn picked blueberries, Swiftstream and Slingtail decided that black currants were what they liked the best leaving the blackberries for Tishi and Ruddingy.
As the Dibbuns finished they saw strangers walking up the road to the Abbey. There were two adult beasts and a young beast. The adults wore dusty traveling clothes. The little one, however, was black furred with a fine long tunic of silvery gray and a long cape of silver. To complete his attire he had a silver medallion he wore on a chain around his neck. The tall beasts were ferrets!
Mother Mellus rushed in front of the dibbuns. "What is your business here?"
The ferrets looked at one another. "We are only passing through, but we found this young mouse wandering the forest alone and hoped that you might take him in. We don't want any trouble. We don't even want to stay in the Abbey. Please just take in this little one."
Mother Mellus looked at Sister Cicely with concern, "What do you think we should do?"
Sister Cicely said decisively, "We will take the little one in and talk to the Abbott. We wouldn't want any young creature to wander alone. Thank you for bringing him here."
The ferrets bowed and continued walking down the road.
Sister Cicely turned to the mouse who was looking forlorn. "What is your name?"
The mouse said in a low voice, "They call me Gungle Woodmouse. About a week ago, we were attacked by foxes and my parents were killed. I wandered around until the ferrets found me and I was afraid they would kill me, but they said that they were going past an Abbey and that if they brought me here the Warrier wouldn't hurt them and they could travel on safely."
Sister Cicely said, "You poor little one. Come we'll talk to the Abbott right away and then find you a place to sleep."
She turned to the Dibbuns, "I'm counting on you dibbuns to make Gungle feel at home here."
"Of course we will." Chorused the Dibbuns who ran into the Abbey to take their berries to Friar Hugo and run tell Tangle about the new Dibbun.
After his interview with the Abbott, Gungle was escorted to the dorms by Mother Mellus and given a bed and chest to put away his things. The rest of the Dibbuns crowded around firing questions.
"Where'd you live before?"
"Did you have any brothers or sisters?"
"What's it like fighting foxers?
Mother Mellus broke in "Let's give Gungle a chance to get settled in before you imps give him the third degree."
Everyone went down to dinner and gave Gungle a taste of their favorite food. After dinner the dibbuns went upstairs to plan the "great kitchen raid of all times."
"This one has to be carefully planned," said Tangle.
"Yes," agreed Tishi, "Mother Mellus caught us last time and we had to do dishes for a week.
"It was like getting two baths in a day!" said Acorn in horror.
"Eeww," said Slingtail, "I don't like one baff in a day."
"I know!" said Rose who was one of the most daring Dibbuns. "We pretend to be asleep when Mother Mellus comes by to check on us, then we sneak down the back steps until we see the light go out in the kitchen and Friar Hugo leave for the night. Then we can go and fill our sacks with puddens, and trifle and I know that they have hidden the candied chesknuts in the pots and pans cupboard. I overheard Friar Hugo bragging to Sister Cicely that no Dibbun would look there."
"Okay Tangle, when shall we do it?" asked Swiftstream. "Ruddingy and I are ready tonight."
"Let's wait until tomorrow night," said Tangle, "because the moon will be full and it will be easier to see."
"Okay, we'll make sure that we have everything ready tomorrow." Said Topaz.
The next morning all the Dibbuns were sleeping soundly, when Mother Mellus and Friar Hugo came storming into the dorms.
"Alright you scamps, where did you put the food you stole last night?"
All the Dibbuns stared questioningly at each other. Who had stolen food, the raid was to be tonight. Rose shot a suspicious look at Ruddingy and Swiftstream and mouthed, "Did you two do it?"
Swiftstream and Ruddingy both shook their heads.
"Well since no one will confess to this thievery all of you will have to wash dishes for two weeks, except Gungle. He is new here and wouldn't know where things were kept,' said Mother Mellus sternly.
"Wait, we didn't do it," protested Rose.
"I don't believe you," said Mother Mellus. "So go ahead and get down to the kitchens, you can wash the big beasts breakfast plates before you have breakfast."
As the Friar and Mother Mellus left, Rose who had sharp hearing heard the Friar mutter, "I never thought they'd look in the pots and pans cupboard."
Rose waited until the dishes were washed and the dibbuns had had breakfast before she approached Tangle with her discovery.
"Tangle, only those of usens who were in on da plan knew about where the chesknuts were hid. Have you questioned everybeast about who did it?"
"Yes, I did an' nobeast did it."
"This is really suspicious," said Rose, "the only one who was there last night who we don't know is Gungle."
"Yeah," said Tangle, " He was there and he didn't have to do dishes with us. I think that we need ta search 'is things and put a watch on 'im"
"You and I can search his things, why don't you let River Sling watch him. She's very quiet and nobeast knows she's there.
"Will ya do it for us, River Sling?" asked Tangle.
"Sure." Said River Sling. "I will be back by lunchtime so I can help with the dishes."
"No, we can handle that," said Tangle, "you just stick ta him like glue."
Rose and Tangle search all through Gungle's chest and found a pouch that held the stolen chestnuts. Then they searched the other chests and found that Swiftstream and Ruddingy's chests held partly eaten sweets, but not ones that either otter liked.
"I don't like this," said Rose, "Gungle stole the food and tried to make it look like Swiftstream and Ruddingy were to blame."
"But I don't think we are going to convince the elders without more proof." said Tangle. "Mother Mellus will think we are just trying to shift the blame."
"I hope River Sling finds out something more." Said Rose hopefully.
River Sling followed Gungle like a shadow. She watched as he snuck up to the room where the big beasts were holding their regular council meeting about the defense of the Abbey. Gungle was muttering to himself about what he was hearing, obviously memorizing the information. River Sling saw Gungle sneaking out of the Abbey and followed him to the woods where Gungle met up with the two ferrets. They were spies, trying to breach the Abbey defenses.
River Sling swiftly ran back to the dorm and told the Dibbuns what she had seen and heard. "That mouse is actually a dwarfed rat and he told the ferrets all he heard about the Abbey defenses."
"Good work, River Sling, but how are we going to convince the big beasts what we know. They won't believe us," said Tangle.
"Why don't you trick Gungle?" asked Slingtail.
"How are we going to do that?" asked Acorn.
"Wait, me little matey has something there," said Ruddingy. "We got into this mess because Gungle used our plans to get the food."
"I'm thinking what you're thinking matey," said Swiftstream, "we set a trap by making new plans in front of him, but this time we accidentally also let Friar Hugo and Mother Mellus overhear us too. Then when they wait to catch us they will catch Gungle and the ferrets in the act instead."
"That's brilliant," said Tishi, "and I know just what we should do. We will talk about sneaking out of the Abbey to have a secret pillow fight. If the ferrets are planning an attack then they will want to take us as hostages."
"But we might actually get dibbun-napped by the ferrets or Friar Hugo and Mother Mellus might stop us too soon." Said Topaz.
"How about we leave that to River Sling and you. You two will run to get Mother Mellus and Friar Hugo as soon as we leave with Gungle. Ruddingy and Swiftstream will hide in the bushes and distract the ferrets until the big beasts come. If anything happens, Rose will be our backup."
After the dinner dishes were done, the dibbuns gathered around Tangle and plotted the "Great Pillow fight." After the plans were finished the dibbuns went to bed. Gungle quietly slipped out.
"We got him!" whispered Tangle. "Now are all of you ready?"
"Yeah! Baffs nevah! Play Forevah," cried Tishi.
Tishi, Acorn, Tangle, Slingtail, Soilflicker, Rosebud Speedpaw, and Tagg grabbed pillows. Rose, Swiftstream, Ruddingy ran ahead to hide in the bushes and trees. River Sling and Topaz watched for the signal to fetch the big beasts. The pillow fight of the century began. The two sides had great fun pelting each other with pillows. Gungle and the ferrets slunk into the copse hiding behind trees ready to snatch the dibbuns.
The first ferret reached for Slingtail and a pebble smashed into the back of his head. He looked around and saw a young squirrelmaid leaping up into the upper branches of the tree. "You can't get me you mucky-pawed varmint. She put her paws to both side of her head saying, "Nyah, nyah."
The other dibbuns started throwing pillows at the ferrets.
At this point River Sling and Topaz brought the big beasts on the run. They arrived just in time to see the ferrets and Gungle grabbing at the Dibbuns and crying out. "We'll get you and then we'll storm the Abbey you little pests!"
Ruddingy and Swiftstream and Rose used their slings and the Dibbuns used their pillows. Finally the ferrets gave up and said, "It was Gungle's idea in the first place. He thought it would be easy for a dwarfed rat to pretend to be a mouse, but these little devils of yours are impossible.
The Dibbuns had saved the Abbey and a feast was held in their honor two days later.
Bravo River Sling! Great completion!
Mission #85
Me (Finnbarr) and a group of 15 other dibbuns one day decide to give Mother Mellus a bath. We had a plan that in the night, we would give her a sleeping pill, so she would sleep really deeply. Then we would drag her to the Infirmary and then bathe her. We were put to bed one night, and we waited in our beds for a few hours. Once I thought it was ready, I gave everyone a signal. We creeped downstairs as silently as possible. Unfortunately, that wasn't very silent, since a little mousebabe tripped on the stairs.
"Whooooaaaa! Bummmp, Buummmp, wheeeee!!!"
It almost woke up some of the adult beasts. We picked up the little mousebabe then carried on with our journey. We walked through the Great Hall to Mother Mellus' room. Just as we came up the stairs again to her room, a little molebabe tripped on the stairs!
"Whummpp! Boi okey! Whooooaaaa, burrhurrhurrhurr, buummmmppp!"
That time, Mother Mellus woke up!
"Hey, what?!? Who, what, where? What are dibbuns doing up here? Back to bed all of you! said Mellus as she tried to herd us out the door
However I had a backup plan. I quickly took a glass of water off of Mellus' table before she could see me do it, stuck the sleeping formula in it and handed the glass to Mellus,
"But Mewwus, we wus jus' gonna give yous a glass of water when that mole tripped on the stairs!" I said.
"Oh, ok, but next time dont wake me up!"
She took a swig of the water with the pill in it, and within a few minutes was snoozing. We grabbed her mattress and dragged it down to the Great Hall with her on it. Luckily, Russano the Wise was staying at Redwall at the time, and we managed to hire him to help us for 35 candied chetnuts. He met us in the Great Hall with the mattress, and we got a ride up to the Infirmary on the mattress. When we were up there, we set to work. We tied the struggling Mellus (who had now woken up) into the bathtub so she couldn't escape and started batheing her. We made sure that we got soap in her eyes and scrubbed her spotless.
"Hey, stop this! its not even two hours to dawn! How dare you do this to me!!! Early bedtime without any supper tomorrow for all of you! Accckkk! Soap in my eyes! That means you too Russano!" she cried.
After we thought she was scrubbed enough, we untied her and ran for it! The next day she kept scowling at us. Turns out we did get early bedtime without supper, but it was well worth it!
Mission #50
There was a group of three ferret dibbuns staying at the abbey. They had been found wandering the woods outside. When we (DAB) first met them, we knew there was something odd about them. Firstly, the acctually LIKED bedtime. Second, they were very mean. And third, they liked cleanliness. I heard that they were trying to convince some dibbuns to join their new club DFB (Dibbuns For Bedtime). When they couldn't get anybeasts from DAB to join, they retaliated by stealing our Super Secret Stash of Strawberries (SSSOS). When we asked them to give the SSSOS back, they told Mother Mellus that we were telling lies, and accusing them of stealing. So everytime we did that we got sent to bed early. Then one day we decided to find the strawberries ourselves. We spied on the three ferrets, and we found out that they kept going down to the cellars, and when they came up, they would wash their hands and faces. So I took two dibbuns with me (Tangle and Furrtil) to find out what they were doing down there. We snuck through the kitchens without Friar Hugo seeing us and we went down into the cellars. Unfortunately, Ambrose Spike was down there testing wine and ales. He saw us.
"Hey, what are you three dibbuns doing down here?" He said.
I replied, "Oh usn's have jus' come down to help with testing your drinks."
"Ok then" he said as he handed us each a beaker, "try some of this, it's dannylion Fizz."
We tried some drinks for a while, then Ambrose decided to take a snooze. So we continued our search. We looked around the cellars for about half an hour without any luck. Then all of a sudden we heard some voices.
"Oh, look at dis' 'ere one! Its really big an' juicy!.
"Ya, well look at this 'un. I bet it's half again the size of yours!
The sounds were coming from a small corridor that was very dimly lit. We followed it down a ways keeping very silent until we saw some light. The passage turned to the left into a room. There were a bunch of old abandoned kegs and barrels surrounding the area. There were thousands of cobwebs and dust motes. In the center of the room, sat the three ferrets gorging on strawberries. We decided that one of us would go up and get Mother Mellus so she could see for herself that we hadn't been lying. So Furrtil went up and got Mellus. Tangle and I waited for a few minutes, listening to the ferrets talk as they lounged about the room, now that they had their fill of strawberries, until we heard footsteps. The ferrets were talking so noisily that they didn't notice when Mother Mellus appeared in the doorway.
"Well then! You have been stealing the strawberries after all!" said Mellus in a loud, booming voice. "It's bedtime without out supper for you tonight and double chores tomorrow! Now as for you other dibbuns, I'm sorry I didn't believe you when you said that they were stealing your strawberries, so in return you get a extra-late bedtime today and no chores tomorrow for all of DAB!"
We gathered up the remainder of the strawberries and went up to the tent to celebrate with all the other dibbuns! From then on, the three ferrets didn't even try to steal strawberries, or get back in any way.
Mission 14 by River Sling of the Tricky Tribe
River Sling the ottermaid, Rose Treefwirl the squirrelmaid and Slingtail the otter were sitting at the breakfast table with the other dibbuns eating their breakfast. Old Friar Toby who was in charge of lessons appeared in the doorway with an angry look on his face.
"Which dibbun filled the inkwells with colored water and dropped the quill pens in strawberry jam?" he asked sternly.
There were stifled giggles from the dibbun ranks, but no one ‘fessed up.
"Since you dibbuns think that this is so funny, we're going to spend lessons sharpening new quill pens and making ink."
This statement was followed by groans. It would take all day and was hard work.
"We were supposed to pick stwabees afta lunch so Adrian Spike cud makes stwabee fizz and stwabee corjal," protested little Slingtail.
"You young terrors should have thought of that before someone trashed the classroom!" said Friar Toby.
Arven, the Abbey Champion, suppressed a smile and said, "That's too bad, Friar Toby, because I hear that it is supposed to storm tonight and it will blow away all of the strawberry trees, because they are as light as goose feathers."
A collective gasp arose from the dibbuns, no strawberries!!!!!
Friar Toby shook his head. "I remember a certain young terror of a squirrel who got into more than his fair share of trouble, Master Champion! But if there are no more strawberries tomorrow, they have only themselves to blame," said the Friar who turned away from the dibbuns to wink at Arven. "Now you young rascals let's get to work."
The dibbuns toiled away sharpening quills and making ink. They finally finished just before supper.
While they were washing up after supper, Slingtail said to Tangle with tears streaming down his face, "What are we going to do, Tangle? It is looking stormy and we can't save the strawberries!"
Tangle patted him on the back, "Well, Slingtail, maybe it won't blow them away and we can get them tomorrow."
Slingtail didn't feel any better and cried himself to sleep. River Sling decided she would sneak out and try to save the strawberries. Slingtail was her little brother and she couldn't bear to see him so sad. She shook Rose Treefwirl awake.
"Rose, we gotta do something to save the strawberries."
Rose and River Sling quickly got on their clothes and pulled on their cloaks. Quietly they crept out the dormitory door and down the staircase. They almost got caught by Sister Red Rose who was checking out the linens in the linen cupboard, but they dodged out of sight until she passed. They dodged through the shadows til they got to the gatehouse and waited for their chance to sneak out of the gate when the gatekeeper went out on nightly security rounds.
Once outside, Rose and River Sling ran to the strawberry patch. The strawberries were still there! The wind began to blow strongly. River Sling threw her cloak over the strawberries.
"Rose, my cloak won't be enough. Can you spread yours over the rest?"
"River Sling," said Rose, "the cloaks are blowing away. We need to get rocks to weight them down."
Rose and River Sling found rocks and put them around the cloaks. Then the two dibbuns huddled together in under the nearby bushes trying to stay warm as the wind grew stronger and the rain began. They finally fell asleep huddled together. The next morning they were awakened by Abbess Tansy and Arven. "What are you two doing here you're chilled through," said the Abbess.
"We were making sure that the strawberries didn't blow away." said Rose Treefwirl sleepily, and then she sneezed.
"Slingtail was crying because he was afraid that because someone was bad yesterday and Friar Toby made us sharpen quills and make ink. We were supposed to pick strawberries so Ambrose Spike could make strawberry fizz and strawberry cordial. Slingtail cried himself to sleep," said River Sling. "I couldn't let him be sad."
"Blown away?" asked the Abbess, "What are you talking about?"
Arven looked guilty, "I told them the story about the strawberry trees that blew away, " he said, "I was just teasing and I thought they knew it was just a story."
"Arven, that was a fib that those little otters told long ago. Strawberries don't grow on trees, River Sling and they don't blow away, Rose. Let's get these two dibbuns into the infirmary at once."
Arven and Abbess Tansy carried River Sling and Rose into the infirmary. They were given physicks and warm nettle soup then put to bed while the other dibbuns picked the strawberries. The two were sick for three days but when they finally got out of the infirmary the dibbuns and adults threw a small party for them complete with a cake with strawberry trees on it and strawberry fizz.
Arven proposed a toast, "Here's to River Sling and Rose Treefwirl who bravely kept our strawberries from blowing away. Hip, hip hooray. Hip, hip, hooray. Hip, hip hooray!"
Abbess Tansy said, "But I don't want any other dibbuns to worry about the strawberries so much that they sleep outside. Rose and River Sling could have gotten very sick. We gave them physicks and warm nettle soup."
"Eeww!!!" chorused the dibbuns.
River Sling and Rose were the heroes of the dorm and Slingtail hugged his sisters until they could hardly breathe.
So Treefoil starts 2 dig using foremoles digging kit and suprisingly finishes a round deep hole in a short time. The serpents hane not struck yet but Treefoil can see that they will do. So Treefoil hurtles past the other dibbuns and charges into the snakes*. Up an' at em Liiikkkkleee maaaaaaagggggiiiitttss. *This seems to draw the others awake as they catch on to Treefoils' plan. They use the same dibbun cry and charge into the snakes. One by one the dibbuns throw all the snakes into the pit Treefoil had dug and piled in dirt to cave the hole in*.
Pwhew dat was close guys. Lets go dat way.* Treefoil points to the way the snakes had come from. After a short time crawling they saw daylight and started to climb out of the tunnels. Perfect. Came out in the strawberry patch. Then the hungry dibbuns start rolling around playing tag and eating strawberries*. All in a days work eh guys. * They all fell about laughing*
THE END
From Treefoil da squirrel of Darstadly dibbuns
Climbing under the table in Cavern Hole RosiePo giggles
" Muda Mella not find'in me here!"
then an elder looks under the table,
" Hey, I thought it was the dibbuns bath time?"
RosiePo squeaks and scuttles between the elders' legs.
She runs into the gatehouse where the gatekeeper is asleep.
She decides on the cupboard by the desk as a hiding place,
" This be a good hide'in place," she says as she shuts the cupboard door.
Giggling softly she listens until she heres Mother Mellus,
" Is RosiePo here Brother?"
The brother yawns,
" How should I know you just woke me from sleep."
" Sorry Brother."
Then the door shut and RosiePo slowly climbs out.
Suddenly she is picked up and tickled by a huge hand,
" No, no Moda Mella I no wana bath!"
She said as she giggled furiously
Mother Mellus stayed silent.
Still kicking and moving the three elder with help from Mother Mellus washed and put
RosiePo to bed
" I no want bath no mores." RosiePo said with a yawn,
" No more..." and with that she fell asleep
