The Dung Beetle (17)

The Dung Beetle (17)

  The gardener's son and one of his playmates had been explored in the hothouse and, when they saw the dung beetle, they decided it would be fun to keep it.

  They wrapped it in a leaf from a grapevine, and the gardener's son stuck it in his pocket.

  The dung beetle tried to creap and to crawl, and the boy closed his hand around him and that was most uncomfortable.

  The boys ran to the big pond at the other end of the garden. A wornout wooden shoe with a missing instep became a ship. With a stick for a mast and the dung beetle, who was tied to the stick with a piece of woollen thread, as the captain, the ship was launded.

  The pool was large and the dung beetle thought he was adrift on an ocean. He got so frightened that he fell over on his back and there he lay with all his legs pointing up towards the sky.

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