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Friday 13 July 2012

day forty-seven and "Smash!"

Then, in the next few seconds, something amazing happened! Ron saw another craft appear from nowhere. It was a pedal-powered rotor-sledge, and it was driven by a large birdman. He was wearing a big, black astracan hat and had a large orange beak and a bushy white moustache. He looked very stern. It was Benny!
Benny came in at an angle and reached out with a long crackit racquet and smashed the snow-mice in their cups one-by-one. "Smash!". "Blang!". "Crack!" etc.  Ron cheered as he saw the snow-mice jumping out of their smashed-up cups as they corkscrewed down, opening little parachutes that looked like gentlebirdmen's white handkerchiefs.
"Saved!", thought Ron. He could see Benny now approaching gently in the rotor-sledge. Just then though, there was a little ripping noise, as the cardboard centre of the roll of tape, weakened by all the swinging, started to break. For a few moments a layer of cardboard peeled away until the roll broke completely and Ron fell....

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