Fibles Read Free

eating the evening fare of vegetables.
    "Everyone who cleans their plates of peas and carrots gets to go in the dessert line," offered MaaMaa.
    The older sisters, Pee Ewe and Ewe Too, were holding their noses. Ewe Wee was watching them when a commotion of pushing and shoving began in the buffet line, because someone had tried cutting in line. Everyone in the restaurant was turning heads to see what was happening. When the commotion was over, MaaMaa Ewe did a plate check and was pleased to see that everyone had finished their peas and carrots.
    "Okay, kids, let's go get in the dessert line," said MaaMaa with a smile.
    "Baa-daa-boom, baa-daa-bing! We love our ice cream!" sang the kids.
    A month went by, and MaaMaa once again said, "Let's all go out for dinner!"
    The Ewe family jumped in the mini-van and once again went to the all-you-can-eat veggie restau­rant. This time, Ewe Wee was the first sister to load up her plate with peas and carrots and was the first to finish them in record time, without holding her nose.
    "What turned you around on eating peas and carrots?" asked Pee Ewe.
    "The first time we were here, I was too scared to eat my peas and carrots, so I scooped them into my napkin and took them home, until I could come up with a way to enjoy eating them," said Ewe Wee.
    "What did you come up with that makes them so easy to eat?" asked Ewe Too.
    "I came up with a recipe called "Peaish-Carbob's", where I alternate sliding peas and carrots on a small skewer stick. Then I dunk'em in my favorite dipping sauce, and they go sliding down real easy. It's a ba-a-autiful combination!" said the chef Ewe Wee.

The Guppible One

    Gillmore the guppy was getting bored with having to go to swimming school along the coast, especially on a day when the sun was shining, the surf was splashing, and the water was sparkling clear.
    Each day before school assembled, Percy the perch would be perched on his favorite rock, waiting for Gillmore the guppy to join up with him before leaving for school.
    As Gillmore arrived that morning for school, Percy said, "It's such a beautiful morning. I wish something exciting would happen in school today."
    "I agree!" said Gillmore. "All our class does is swim up and down the coast in the same spot everyday, and it's so boring!"
    Lurking close by in the water was Finister the devilfish, who listened in on Percy's and Gillmore's conversation about wishing something exciting would happen today.
    "Hey, you guys want to play hooky today?" offered Finister.
    "What's hooky?" asked Gillmore.
    "Playing hooky is fishtailing it over to the pier after skipping school, and then nibbling away at the free lunch the fishermen dangle from their lines without getting hooked," said the devilish Finister.
    "That sounds like an exciting fishing expedi­tion to me," answered Gillmore.
    "How about you, Percy?" prodded Finister.
    "A free lunch sounds fishy to me, so I think I'm going to play it safe and stay in school," Percy replied.
    "We're going to leave our backpacks next to your rock and pick them up later, after our free lunch," Finister and Gillmore said to Percy.
    Percy got off his perch and swam off to class. When Wally the walleye swam by, Finister asked him to tell Miss Marlin the schoolteacher that he and Gillmore were sick and feeling like fish out of water and wouldn't be able to attend school today.
    The plan to play hooky had now set sail, as Finister and Gillmore fishtailed over to the pier to get an exciting free lunch. Finister was the first one to begin nibbling away at the free lunch when a fish­erman quickly hooked him and reeled him in for a fish fry.
    The next school day, as Gillmore arrived to join up with Percy for swimming school, he was looking as black as a sea bass. His scales were smoking, his lips were swollen shut, and he was feeling like a crappie.
    "What happened to you?" asked Oly the mackerel.
    "When Finister got hooked by the fisherman, I got so scared. I swam out to sea as fast as I could,