In the village of Trimble, at the finish of the street opposite the village green, stands a dirty old home. Inside, Kronk the meanest gnome in the land, rubbed a hole in the ice that had formed on the inside of his window and peered out. The permanent scowl on face deepened creating him appear meaner and even much more unfriendly than regular.
Outdoors the winter snow had arrived and the people in the village had been out enjoying themselves. Sledges whizzed down fairy hill, snowball fights had been going on everywhere and numerous of the elves have been busy creating snowmen on the village green. Kronk growled, the a single point that he hated far more than snow was seeing folks possessing entertaining. He genuinely was the meanest, most miserly and unfriendly gnome you ever did see.
On the green appropriate opposite Kronk's front window, Peter the elf and his friend Pod have been challenging at perform creating a snowman. They were at it all morning and have been determined that it would be their finest snowman ever. Later As soon as they had completed they stood back to admire their handy function. The snowman was very tall, as higher as they could attain on tiptoes and his physique was round and plump. He had a substantial round head, with black pebble eyes, a carrot nose and a smiling mouth created with a lot of smaller sized stones. 'He's good, but he desires anything else to end him off,' mentioned Peter.
'I've got my granddad's old fishing hat, the a single with the beautiful green feathers,' stated Pod.
'Fantastic, and I've got an old yellow and red scarf to go round his neck,' stated Peter.
'We could place a row of stones down his front to appear adore buttons on a coat, stated Pod.
'OK,' stated Peter. 'You get the hat and come about to my home. I will get the scarf and I will heat us a good warming bowl of soup.'
Peter who was a very great cook had produced a substantial pan of vegetable soup yesterday and After he got residence all he had to do was to pop the pan on the stove and let it heat up. Pod who was seriously fantastic at expanding issues in his garden had offered the vegetables to Peter and as usually, the two buddies would share the soup in between them.
'Excellent, I am cold now that we've stopped developing the snowman and I am definitely hungry too.'
'Me too, let's go,' stated Peter.
At house Peter placed the pan of soup on the stove, place a new log on the fire and took down the scarf from the hook behind the front door. Ten minutes later there was a knock and Pod popped his head about the door. 'Sorry I took so extended but I had a job acquiring the hat. I believed it was in the cupboard and then I remembered I'd place it on the scarecrow in the back garden.
Peter smiled; his friend was from time to time a tiny forgetful. 'Never ever thoughts, you have got it now, take your coat off and go and sit by the fire, I will bring you some soup.'
Pod sat down in a single of the two chairs in front of the fire, Peter poured out two bowls of soup, handed one particular to Pod and selecting up the other bowl sat in the chair subsequent to his friend. There was silence, apart from the odd slurp, as they ate their soup and After they have been completed they had been warm inside too as out.
Peter was a tidy tiny elf and immediately after lunch he washed the bowls and spoons and place them back in the cupboard. 'There, that is accomplished, now we can go and end off the snowman.'
When back at the green they dressed the snowman in the hat with the beautiful green feather and wrapped the extended yellow and red scarf about his neck. The hat was a tiny on the small side, simply because Pod's granddad, was an elf and elves are ever so small. But apart from that, Peter and Pod each agreed that the snowman looked very grand certainly. In reality they had been so please that they did a tiny dance and as the danced they produced up a small song.
Snowman, snowman cuddly and fat
We truly really like your feathered hat,
Feathered hat, feathered hat,
We genuinely enjoy your feather hat,
It suits you oh so effectively.
Snowman, snowman large and powerful
We seriously really like your scarf so extended
It is so extended; It really is so lengthy,
We definitely like your scarf so lengthy,
It will hold you warm.
That evening As soon as Peter and Pod have been rapid asleep in bed, a dark shadowy figure crept up to the snowman and with a growl swiped the green feather hat from its head. Immediately after jumping on the hat the figure unwound the scarf, pulled out the snowman's nose, knocked his head flying and kicked the rest of him into bits.
The subsequent morning Once they went down to the green and located their snowman destroyed, Peter and Pod had been very sad. In truth Peter was so upset that he had to have a sit down on a nearby stump of a tree. 'Who would do such as spiteful factor?' cried Pod.
Peter who was facing Kronk's home saw the curtains at the window twitch and abruptly had an notion who it could be. 'Kronk is spying on us from behind his curtains I bet he is the one particular that did it.'
'What are we going to do?' asked pod.
Peter sat on the stump pondering difficult. Just after a minute or so, he stated, 'We'll create the snowman once again, but this time ...' he stopped and then whispered the rest of the program in Pod's ear so that no 1 could hear.
Pod laughed. 'As soon as are we going to do it?'
'Tomorrow morning, we'll start out whilst It really is nonetheless dark, so that Kronk cannot see what we are performing.'
The immediately after morning As soon as Kronk looked out of his window he was shocked to see Peter and Pod constructing an additional snowman. They should have began very early, for the reason that they currently had most of the physique constructed. Kronk watched them for most of the day and the much more they constructed the a lot more he scowled and growled beneath his breath.
Peter and Pod went house Once they had been completed. But they sneaked back just prior to it got dark and hid in the bushes at the edge of the green. They did not must wait lengthy; When it was dark a shadowy figure crept up to the snowman, knocked off his head and then started to kick at the snowman's physique. Quickly a lot of the physique had fallen, but the middle refused to move. The figure moved back and took a operating kick at the middle and started to hop around on foot shouting, 'Ouch! Ooya! Ouch! Ouch! Oh my foot! Oh my toe! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Quickly absolutely everyone in the village came out to see what was going on and in the light from Peter's torch, there was Kronk hopping about on a single foot. 'What has occurred?' they asked.
'Kronk sneaked out immediately after dark and kicked down our snowman,' stated Peter.
'But why is he hopping around love that?' they wanted to know.
'Mainly because As soon as he kicked down our 1st snowman, we constructed our second a single more than the old tree stump,' stated Peter.
Every person laughed, mentioned it was his own fault and went back indoors, leaving Kronk to hop his way property on 1 leg.
Peter, Pod and the rest of the elves constructed lots much more snowmen that winter and Kronk never ever touched a single of them. In reality he did not leave the home once again till spring came about and Once he did he walked with a limp.
Copyright Fred Watson
Fred Watson published his 1st book, a fantasy adventure novel aimed at the eight-12 age group, in November 2006. A grandfather of 4, he loves to create for all age groups, has an abiding interest in history and continues on a typical basis to add new stories and so on to his web site. Footprint Publishing
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