3/21/2021 0 Comments Sticks The Short Story
Place coloring sheets and crayons where children can use them when invited but will not be distracted beforehand.The Sioux culture centered on using horses to hunt buffalo for food.
![]() Hes very small, Mum said as she peered at the tiny water snail. Just a black dot. Hell grow, said Abby and pulled her pyjama bottoms up again before she got into bed. In the morning Abby jumped out of bed and switched on the light in her fish tank. Gerry, the fat orange goldfish, was dozing inside the stone archway. Jaws was already awake, swimming along the front of the tank with his white tail floating and twitching. It took Abby a while to find Mr. Sticky because he was clinging to the glass near the bottom, right next to the gravel. At school that day she wrote about the mysterious Mr. Sticky who was so small you could mistake him for a piece of gravel. Some of the girls in her class said he seemed an ideal pet for her and kept giggling about it. ![]() Sticky clinging to the very tiniest, waviest tip of the pond weed. It was near the water filter so he was bobbing about in the air bubbles. She fed the fish then lay on her bed and watched them chase each other round and round the archway. When they stopped Gerry began nibbling at the pond weed with his big pouty lips. He sucked Mr. Sticky into his mouth then blew him back out again in a stream of water. The snail floated down to the bottom of the tank among the coloured gravel. I think hes grown a bit, Abby told her Mum at breakfast the next day. But I dont want him to get too big or he wont be cute anymore. She needed two pieces of expensive paper to do both ends but the teacher didnt mind because she was pleased with the drawing and wanted it on the wall. They sellotaped them together, right across the elephants middle. In the corner of the picture, Abby wrote her full name, Abigail, and drew tiny snails for the dots on the is The teacher said that was very creative. They scooped the fish out and put them in a bowl while they emptied some of the water. Mr. Sticky stayed out of the way, clinging to the glass while Mum used the special vacuum cleaner to clean the gravel. Abby trimmed the new pieces of pond weed down to size and scrubbed the archway and the filter tube. Mum poured new water into the tank. Wheres Mr. Sticky Abby asked. On the side, Mum said. Ive got work to do. She plopped the fish back in the clean water where they swam round and round, looking puzzled.
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