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010 - My Father Finds the Dragon · My Fathers Dragon

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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, Oh, my Father's Dragon. This liber Rox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain recording by Gregory Holdsworth. My
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  Speaker 1: Father's Dragon by Rude Style's Gannet, Chapter ten, My father
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  Speaker 1: finds the dragon. When my father was crossing the bank
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  Speaker 1: of the fifteenth crocodile with two more lollipops to go,
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  Speaker 1: the noise of the monkeys suddenly stopped, and he could
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  Speaker 1: hear a much bigger noise, getting louder every second. Then
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  Speaker 1: he could hear seven furious tigers and one raging rhinoceros,
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  Speaker 1: and two seething lions and one ranting gorilla, along with
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  Speaker 1: countless screeching monkeys, led by two extremely irate wild boars,
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  Speaker 1: all yelling it's a trick, it's a trick. There's an invasion,
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  Speaker 1: and it must be after a dragon. Kill it, kill it.
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  Speaker 1: The whole crowd stampeded down to the bank. As my
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  Speaker 1: father was fixing the seventeenth lollipop for the last crocodile,
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  Speaker 1: he heard a wild boar scream, Look it came this way.
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  Speaker 1: It's over there now. See the Crocodile's made a bridge
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  Speaker 1: for it. Just as my father leaped onto the other bank,
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  Speaker 1: one of the wild boars jumped onto the back of
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  Speaker 1: the first crocodile. My father didn't have a moment to
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  Speaker 1: spare by now the dragon realized that my father was
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  Speaker 1: coming to rescue him. He ran out of the bushes
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  Speaker 1: and jumped up and down, yelling, here I am, I'm
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  Speaker 1: right here. Can you see me? Hurry? The boar's coming
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  Speaker 1: over on the crocodiles too. They're all coming over. Oh please, hurry, hurry.
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  Speaker 1: The noise was simply terrific. My father ran up to
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  Speaker 1: the dragon and took out his very sharp jackknife. Steady,
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  Speaker 1: old boy, steady, we'll make it. Just stand still, he
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  Speaker 1: told the dragon as he began to saw through the
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  Speaker 1: big rope. By this time, both boars, all seven tigers,
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  Speaker 1: the two lions, the rhinoceros, and the gorilla, along with
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  Speaker 1: the countless screeching monkeys, were all on their way across
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  Speaker 1: the crocodiles, and was still a lot of rope to
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  Speaker 1: cut through. Oh hurry, the dragon kept saying, and my
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  Speaker 1: father again told him to stand still. If I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I can make it, said my father, we'll fly
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  Speaker 1: over to the other side of the river and I
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  Speaker 1: can finish cutting the rope there. Suddenly, the screaming grew
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  Speaker 1: louder and madder, and my father thought the animals must
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  Speaker 1: have crossed the river. He looked around and saw something
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  Speaker 1: which surprised and delighted him, partly because he had finished
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  Speaker 1: his lollipop, and partly because, as I told you before,
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  Speaker 1: crocodiles are very moody and not the least bit dependable,
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  Speaker 1: and are always looking for something to eat. The first
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  Speaker 1: crocodile had turned away from the bank and started swimming
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  Speaker 1: down the river. The second crocodile hadn't finished yet, so
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  Speaker 1: he followed right after the first, still sucking his lollipop,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest did the same thing, one right after
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  Speaker 1: the other, until they were all swimming away in a line.
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  Speaker 1: The two wild boars, the seven tigers, the rhinoceros, the
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  Speaker 1: two lions, the gorilla, along with the countless screeching monkeys.
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  Speaker 1: We're all riding down the middle of the river on
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  Speaker 1: the train of crocodile, sucking pink lollipops, and all yelling,
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  Speaker 1: screaming and getting their feet wet. My father and the
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  Speaker 1: dragon laughed themselves weak because it was such a silly sight.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as they had recovered, my father finished cutting
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  Speaker 1: the rope and the dragon raced around in circles and
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  Speaker 1: tried to turn a summersault. He was the most excited
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  Speaker 1: baby dragon that ever lived. My father was in a
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  Speaker 1: hurry to fly away, and when the dragon finally calmed
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  Speaker 1: down a bit, my father climbed onto his back all aboard,
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  Speaker 1: said the dragon, where shall we go? We'll spend the
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  Speaker 1: night on the beach, and tomorrow we'll start the long
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  Speaker 1: journey home. So it's off to the shores of Tangerina,
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  Speaker 1: shouted my father as the dragon's sword above the dark
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  Speaker 1: jungle and the muddy river, and all the animals bellowing
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  Speaker 1: at him, and all the crocodiles licking pink lollipops and
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  Speaker 1: grinning wide grins. After all, what did the crocodiles care
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  Speaker 1: about a way to cross the river, and what a
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  Speaker 1: fine feast they were carrying on their backs. As my
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  Speaker 1: father and the dragon passed over the ocean rocks, they
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  Speaker 1: heard a tiny excited voice scream, bomb crack, bomb crack.
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  Speaker 1: We read our nagon, I mean we need our dragon.
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  Speaker 1: But my father and the dragon knew that nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the world would ever make them go back to wild
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  Speaker 1: Island the end. And if my father's dragon by rude
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  Speaker 1: styles gannet,