So, with the permission of the school principal, all of the students in prep to year three set off with their teachers.
As they walked over the railway line and into town one of the teachers said,
"Now, because you're helping the festival organisers they said you can all have some free lollies from the Lolly Shop but you'll have to take turns."
Five at a time they walked into Mrs Toffee's Lolly Shop and made their selection. Some got jelly beans. Some asked for lollipops and some wanted Chicken Feed.
Mrs Toffee stood there with her glasses, brown hair and big, black apron and made sure they all said 'please' and 'thank you'.
"Now," said their teachers, "Let's walk up to Policeman's Hill and make sure it's really, really clean and tidy. We'll go the long way round pass the Hall of Memory and the Motel because it's not so steep."
When they got there they made a game out of who could pick up the smallest piece of litter. The teacher called it an Emu Parade.
"Hey, here's a shiny little bit on the grass," said Timothy.
He bent over to pick it up but his sticky lolly fell out of his pocket and landed on the shiny little thing.
"Oh! It's disappeared," said Timothy as he picked up his lolly and popped it into his mouth.
"Timothy, you shouldn't eat things that have fallen on the ground. There could be anything on that lolly."
And, do you know what? There was something stuck to that lolly it was the shiny little thing and it got stuck in Timothy's throat.
"Arrrrrh! Arrrrrrh! Arrrrrrh! I'm chocking!" called Timothy.
"Look he's turning blue!"
The teacher found her mobile phone and called an ambulance.
They told her to whack Timothy on the back to see if he could cough up the thing in his throat.
As the ambulance came speeding up the road with its siren wailing, Timothy gave a mighty cough and something small, round and shiny went flying out.
It bounced off the windscreen of the ambulance and went whizzing up into the sky towards the swimming pool.
Timothy was taken off to Murgon Hospital in the ambulance and the children and the teachers hurried down the hill towards the swimming pool.
When they got there, the pool was closed but they tied three long sticks together and tied a net to the end and poked it over the fence into the pool.
The teachers said, "Three tries only and then back to school."
The first time they only scooped up a dead grasshopper. "Ohhh!"
The second time they scooped up a plastic toy shark. "Ohhh!"
But the third time they scooped up something small and round and shiny.
It was a gold ring with a shiny pumpkin jewel on the top. "Ahhhh!"
"That must belong to the Pumpkin Fairy Princess," said one girl.
"I bet it's magic," said a boy.
"All right make a wish," said a teacher.
"We wish that Timothy is well again."
And do you know what? He was.
Created by Daryll Bellingham and the students from years Prep, 1 and 2 at Goomeri State School.
Want to listen to our recording of the story by teachers and students? Here it is -
© 2010
Want to listen to our recording of the story by teachers and students? Here it is -
© 2010
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