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Duff, Fife, and Triona were playing
a game of hide and seek. The woods in the glen were a great place to play.
There were so many hiding places. Duff, a big, brown bear, ran and hid
behind a boulder. It was brown like he was, so it was hard to see him.
Fife, a raccoon, hid among a pile of sticks and twigs lying on the ground.
He was nearly invisible. Triona counted to ten. "Here I come, ready or
not," she called.
Duff and Fife giggled as the
chipmunk looked for them. "I see you, Duff," she called. "You’re behind
that boulder. Come out. You’ve been caught." Duff stood up. He was much
bigger than the boulder and furrier too.
Triona ran through the woods,
looking up into the trees and behind black currant bushes. "I see you,
Fife. You’re hiding under those twigs and sticks. I can see your striped
tail. Come out. You’ve been caught," she called. Fife stood up. He had to
pull bits of twigs and dead leaves from his fur.
"It’s my turn to count," whined
Duff. "I was caught first." Triona and Fife were about to run and hide
when the three of them heard a loud roaring noise. "What was that?" Duff
asked.
Fife looked at the bear. "I thought
it was you. It sounds like a big animal, like a bear."
"It wasn’t me," Duff assured his
friends.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
"It’s coming closer. We’d better all
hide," Triona squeaked. The three animals ran and hid behind the boulders.
"Be very quiet so it doesn’t hear us," she warned.
ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!
"It’s coming into the woods," Fife
gulped. "What if it’s a monster?" he whispered.
"Shhh, Fife. Don’t make any noises
at all," Triona said.
Just then a highland cow came into
the woods and stopped near the boulders. "Why, it’s only Lorna," Duff
said.
"Lorna, why are you roaring like
that? You’re not a monster and you’re not a lion. You’re supposed to moo,"
Fife said.
"Hee hee. I tried to scare you and
see that it worked. I want to play hide and seek too," Lorna laughed.
Feeling relieved to see the cow, the
others climbed out from behind the rocks. "Okay, Lorna, you can play, but
you have to be the one who counts first," Duff said.
"That’s fine. You three go and hide
and I’ll count," Lorna said. "MOO! One. MOO! Two……..MOO! Ten! Here I
come."
They played hide and seek for hours.
Lorna had a harder time hiding because she had big handlebar horns, but
managed to have fun with the others. |
