The Purple Drape

Isabel was a little, wee bit afraid to go to sleep. By mistake, she had watched a few minutes of a really scary show on the TV that was all about Martians with funny heads. She was afraid that the Martians might be real. So she decided not to sleep, she fell asleep.

In her dream, she was standing...just standing, when all of a sudden, her cousin, Joshua grew two more eyes. He had four eyes and was just goggling and oogling at her when, just like magic, lo and behold, he turned into...a MONSTER! He was big and blackish, purplish...and he said his name in a really scary voice.

"I AM THE PURPLE DRAPE!"

And with that, he grabbed Isabel around the waist and she could NOT move.

"Get AWAY from me, PURPLE DRAPE!" she yelled very loudly into his creepy purplish eyes.

But the Purple Drape only laughed and laughed and laughed.

Isabel woke up with a start. "Mummy, Mummy!" she ran screaming into her Mummy's room.

"What is it, Isabel," her Mummy asked as she gathered Isabel into her arms.

Isabel trembled and cried as she told her Mummy all about the Purple Drape and her cousin Joshua!

In the morning, and the next night, and the following morning, Isabel was still scared. In fact, she was still scared after her Mummy called Joshua to tell him about Isabel's bad dream. In fact, she was still scared until Joshua came over to her house for dinner that night. Isabel told him the WHOLE story. And do you know what Joshua did?

He rolled his eyes and guffawed! (A guffaw is a big loud laugh!)

And guess what? The sound that Joshua made with his guffaw, was SO funny, that Isabel laughed like crazy!

And guess what else? Isabel was never afraid of the Purple Drape again!