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of him.
The tunnel was turning upward. Boris had to grab
both sides of the wall and dig his feet into the cracks
in the wall. Slowly, he pulled himself up. Boris felt
the blood from his cuts run down into his sleeves.
But the pain didn't matter. All that mattered was
the patch of light ahead. Boris felt the night air
against his face. He was close now. Close to freedom.
Then a sound behind him terrified him. It was the
sound of those clawed feet. They were following him.
Boris scrambled up to the top of the tunnel even
faster. The moonlight was so bright now that he could
see his hands in front of him. He felt a rat brush
against his leg. But he had only a few yards to go.
With his last bit of strength, Boris lunged toward
the light. He felt his head crash into something hard
and cold. For a moment he was stunned.
Then he opened his eyes. In front of him, the moon
shone through the bars of a heavy gate. Still pressed up
against it were the cold, white bones ... of a skeleton.
There was no escape. There was no going back.
This was it. Just Boris ... and the rats.
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The Lamb
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his sheep from place to place and played his flute all
day long. Among the flock of sheep there was a lamb .
with golden fleece. Whenever the boy played his
flute, the lamb began to dance. The boy grew very
fond of this lamb and decided to ask his boss if he
could have the lamb rather than his wages. When he
returned home that evening, his boss waited at the
gate. When he saw the sheep all there and all well~
fed, he was very pleased. He agreed to hire the boy
and began to discuss wages. The boy said he would
watch the sheep for a year if he could have the lamb
with the golden fleece. The farmer was very fond of
the lamb himself, but knowing what a good shepherd
the boy was, he agreed to give him the lamb.
The year passed quickly and the lad received the
lamb for his wages. He set off home with it. As they
journeyed, night set in just as he reached a village.
The boy went to a farmhouse to ask for a night's
lodging. Now there was a daughter in the house who
when she saw the lamb with the golden fleece
determined to steal it. About midnight she stole
into the room where the shepherd was sleeping, but
the moment she touched the lamb, her hand stuck
hard~and~fast to its fleece. When the lad got up he
found her stuck to the lamb. He could not separate
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and the lamb, the girl, the woman, and the priest
each danced by themselves for joy.
The shepherd married the king's daughter, the
priest was made court-chaplain, the woman court
baker, and the girl, the lady-in-waiting to the
princess.
The wedding festivities lasted more than a week,
and the whole land joined in the celebration, and if
the strings on the fiddle hadn't broken, they might
still be dancing now!
Worst Friends
BY AGNES GARDNER
WORST FRIENDS
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like look under the hood and turn the key off and on.
But none of us knew that much about cars. So Miss .
Forminster said, "You two will have to go and get
help. No one's likely to come along for a long time."
Westy and I glared at each other and then went
up the road toward the main highway. "It must be
about two miles away," I puffed.
Westy laughed. "Don't worry. Thwackman, I'll
carry you on my back when you get tired."
"Maybe we should take the shortcut across that
field," I suggested, making a face at him.
Westy said, "Okay, we could do that in order to
save my strength." So we climbed over a fence and
went marching across a field.
Suddenly, out of somewhere, came this big
dog. "Yikes!" said Westy. He jumped way up and
grabbed the lowest branch of a lone tree. He was
hanging there, swinging his feet, when the dog
came racing over.
It was a big dog and if it jumped on me, I would
be knocked down for sure. The noise it made did not
have a welcome ring.
"Hi fella," I said on a somewhat higher note than
usual. "Good boy, good dog."
To my relief and Westy's disbelief the dog stopped,
-WORST FRIENDS
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