The Sausage Escape
Inspired by Sam's dinner at the soft play centre.
Once upon what can only be described as a time, two sausages were lying on a plate. There was also a jacket potato, a Yorkshire pudding and some peas lying next to them. They had only met each other five minutes ago when the chef put them onto the plate, but already they were good friends.
The peas were using the sausages as springboards to bounce into the Yorkshire pudding, and the jacket potato was telling them silly stories making them all laugh.
Suddenly, a knife and fork appeared from up above, came down and chopped one of the sausages into pieces and took them away.
The other foods on the plate were shocked. Jacket was the first to recover his voice.
“Quick everyone,” he said, “we must make a plan to get out of here, otherwise we'll all be taken away, and who knows what will become of us?”
“But what can we do?” said the peas.
“Hmm...” said Jacket. “I know where we'll be safe – in a cave on the beach. We can have fun playing in the sand too.”
“But how can we get there?” asked Yorkshire.
“Well,” said Jacket, thoughtfully, “how about this: I'm round and so is Sausage, so why don't I be the back wheel, Sausage can be the front wheel, and Yorkshire can go on top of us. The peas can jump into Yorkshire and we'll all be able to roll away.”
So, without further ado, they all took up their positions.
“Now ROOOLLLLL!” shouted Jacket, and off they went.
The rolled off the plate and onto the chair, then onto the floor, then over to the door. That's where they found the first obstacle – the door was closed.
 |
“Now what?” asked Sausage.
“We know!” shouted the peas. “Sausage should jump up and down and waggle around, that will tempt the cat over here, because cats love sausages. Then he can hide behind Jacket so the cat can't find him. Then the cat will get bored, go out through the cat flap and we can jump through behind.”
Sausage looked a little worried – it sounded dangerous – but he agreed to give it a try. Sure enough, the cat went over to gobble up the dancing sausage, but when he got there, the sausage was nowhere to be seen. The cat soon got bored of looking and wandered outside through the cat flap. The food quickly jumped through and hid behind a bush.
“Fantastic!” said the peas, “but now, how do we get to the beach?”
They all thought for a minute.
“I know,” said Sausage, “I can hear some seagulls flying around, and they love Yorkshire puddings. Yorkshire can go and lie on the path over there and wait for a seagull to come down, snatch him up and take him away to the beach to feed her chicks.”
Yorkshire didn't like this at all.
“But the seagull will eat me! And how will the rest of you get to the beach?”
“Don't worry, I've worked it all out”, said Sausage, reassuringly. “While the seagull is busy trying to fit you in her beak, Jacket and I will jump on her back, and the peas can grab hold of her legs. Then, when she reaches the beach, the peas can tickle her legs and she'll laugh so much she'll drop you. Then the rest of us can jump down.”
So Yorkshire agreed to give it a try. Everything went according to plan, and as they tumbled from the seagull and down onto the sandy beach, they thought their troubles were over. Then they noticed all the hungry seagulls and crabs looking for food.
“Quick, someone think of a plan!” shouted the peas.
“I know,” said the Yorkshire. “We'll walk along in single file and the peas can climb on top of us as camouflage. Then we'll look like a piece of green seaweed being blown along the beach. Seagulls and crabs don't eat seaweed, so we'll be able to get to the cave in safety.”
And that's just what they did. They reached the cave and lived there happily for the rest of the day, until the tide came in and they were all washed away.
