By David Findlay Illustrated By Tuomas Karhunen

Copyright 2012 David Findlay. All rights reserved.

By David Findlay

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Thanks to Ellinora for wonderful inspiration and characters

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Say hello to Izi the Snail and her friend Aicher

the Frog. Izi and Aicher live in the Magic Forest

where they have many exiting adventures. The Magic

Forest is a wonderful place to live but there is one

problem. Also living in the Magic Forest are two bad

slugs called Muggley and Puggley.

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One sunny day Izi and Aicher One sunny day Izi

and Aicher were going for a walk. It was a lovely

day and they had packed a picnic. After a while

they came to a large open clearing and decided

to eat their picnic. The picnic was full of lovely

goodies cheese sandwiches, tomatoes, cucumber and

juice.:

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After the picnic Aicher was very tired and wanted to go for

nap, Izi on the other hand was worried that those bad slugs

Muggley and Puggley would come and steal their sweeties.

“I“m not worried about those silly bullies“ said Aicher bravely.

So they lay down on the gras s and soon they were snoring

away like two happy pigs in a muddy field. After a while

Izi woke from her nap, Aicher was still sleeping so she

decided to explore that part of the Magic Forest.

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Shortly she came to a secret door. She knew it

was a secret door because there was a sign that

said SECRET in big red letters. She knocked

softly but there was no reply. Very slowly she

opened the door and went inside.

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When her eyes got used to the

light she saw a funny looking rope

bridge. She crossed the rope bridge

and tackled the next obstacle

which was a small tunnel.

Crawling through the tunnel she

finally came to a ladder.

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When she got to the ladder she could smell some

banana toffee and wanted to take a closer look.

She climbed the ladder which is quite difficult

for a snail . At the top of the ladder there was

another door, it was open just enough for Izi to

see inside a large room.

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In the middle of the room there was a large pot of bubbling

banana toffee. On the other side of the room were Muggley

and Puggley, they had their backs towards Izi. They were

laughing and joking but Izi could not hear them.

Izi was so interested in the yummy toffee,

she crept forward trying to be as

quiet as possible. What Izi did not see was

the large X painted on the floor and

a fishing net hanging above the X.

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It was a trap set by those cunning slugs Muggley and

Puggley. Luckily for Izi, Aicher had woken up and had fol-

lowed Izi all the way into the room.

Izi slowly crept forward but before she could get to the X

Aicher jumped from the shadows and

shouted "Izi it's a trap.. RUUUN!"

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Acher grabbed Izi and ran away. Climbing down

the ladder which is quite difficult for as a snail

to do , through the small tunnel, across the rope

bridge and out of the SECRET door.

Muggley and Puggley chased after them. As they

ran away Izi remembered what her Mummy had

said when she left the house that morning “"Do

stay away from those naughty slugs and remember

that they are scared of water“."

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Suddenly Izi had an idea, “Quick“ said Izi “this

way“ and they ran towards Tea Cup Valley. Tea

Cup Valley is where all the trees have tea cups

on their branches instead of apples, oranges or

cherries.

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Izi had remembered that it had been raining that

morning and that the tea cups would be full of

water. They climbed the biggest tree and started

to shake the branches and all the water started

pour out of the tea cups. Little did Muggley and

Puggley know that they were soon to be soaked.

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They ran straight into the shower of water and

started to cry like babies. “Arrrrgggghhh we hate

water“ they yelped as Izi and Aicher laughed at

them from high up on the tree. They could not

stand the water and cried all the back home to

their mummy.

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That left Izi and Aicher free to stroll home,

eating their sweets and retelling the story of their

big adventure. They would remember that day for

a long time and how they managed to get away

from Muggley and Puggley. What an adventure

thought Izi and what a great place the Magic

Forest is to live.