It was my job as a grandad to make up a story one bedtime, you may like to re-tell it to someone.
WILLIE AND THE BABY FISH.
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
WILLIE WAS A BABY WHALE, BUT, EVEN BABY WHALES ARE VERY BIG.
WILLIE WATCHED AS ALL THE OTHER BABY FISH SWAM ABOUT PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK IN THE PLANTS GROWING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
WILLIE WAS VERY SAD BECAUSE ALL THE BABY FISH WERE FRIGHTENED WHEN WILLIE SWAM UP TO THEM, AND THEY SWAM AWAY TO HIDE.
THERE WAS ONE NAUGHTY LITTLE FISH, HERBERT THE BABY HADDOCK.
HERBERT SHOUTED AT WILLIE AND TOLD HIM HE WAS FAT, AND, MUCH TOO FAT TO HIDE ANYWHERE.
WILLIE WAS VERY SAD AND TEARS RAN DOWN HIS FACE.
ONE DAY THE LITTLE FISH WERE VERY SILLY, THEY SWAM OUT A LONG WAY TO WHERE THE WATER WAS VERY DEEP, AND THEIR MUMMIES HAD TOLD THEM NOT TO DO THAT BECAUSE THERE WERE BIG SHIPS ON THE WATER AND IT WAS VERY DANGEROUS.
THE SILLY LITTLE BABY FISH FORGOT AS THEY PLAYED IN THE PLANTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, AND, SUDDENLY, THERE WAS A BIG SPLASH, AND A SHIPS ANCHOR WAS FALLING DOWN TO THE SANDY BOTTOM.
THE BABY FISH WERE VERY FRIGHTENED AND QUICKLY SWAM AWAY, EXCEPT FOR HERBERT THE BABY HADDOCK, HE WAS TRAPPED BY HIS TAIL UNDER THE BIG ANCHOR,
HERBERT WRIGGLED AS HARD AS HE COULD, BUT, HIS TAIL WOULD NOT COME OUT FROM UNDER THE ANCHOR.
ALL THE OTHER BABY FISH SAW THAT HERBERT WAS TRAPPED AND HAD TO THINK OF A PLAN TO GET HIM FREE.
CHARLIE, THE BABY COD, HAD A PLAN, ALL THE LITTLE FISH WOULD PUSH VERY HARD AT THE ANCHOR AND HERBERT WOULD SWIM FREE.
ALL THE BABY FISH LINED UP WITH THEIR NOSES AGAINST THE ANCHOR AND SWAM AS HARD AS THEY COULD, BUT THE ANCHOR WAS TOO HEAVY, THEY COULD NOT MOVE IT.
HERBERT STARTED TO CRY."WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ME?", HE SAID.
ELVIS, THE BABY EEL SAID, "YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE SHIP PULLS THE ANCHOR UP, AND THEN YOU CAN SWIM FREE". HERBERT SAID,"THAT MIGHT TAKE A LONG TIME AND A BIG CRAB COULD COME ALONG AND EAT ME".
"WE NEED ANOTHER PLAN" SAID CHARLIE THE BABY COD, "WE NEED SOMEONE REALLY BIG TO PUSH THE ANCHOR". ELVIS SAID, "THE ONLY ONE THAT WE KNOW IS WILLIE BUT HE WOULD NOT HELP BECAUSE HERBERT CALLED HIM NAMES AND LAUGHED AT HIM".
"PLEASE GO AND ASK WILLIE TO HELP ME", SAID HERBERT.
THE BABY FISH SWAM OFF TO LOOK FOR WILLIE AND THEY FOUND HIM IN THE HARBOUR WHERE HE WAS DIVING IN AND OUT OF THE WAVES, AND HUMANS WERE CHEERING HIM AND TAKING HIS PICTURE.
THE BRAVEST BABY FISH WAS SAMMY THE BABY SALMON. SAMMY SWAM UP TO WILLIE AND SAID, "PLEASE WILLIE, WILL YOU HELP US".
"IF I CAN, I WILL", SAID WILLIE.
SAMMY TOLD WILLIE WHAT HAD HAPPENED, AND, WITH WILLIE AT THE FRONT THEY ALL SWAM BACK TO THE ANCHOR. "STAY BACK", SAID WILLIE, AND WITH ALL HIS STRENGTH AND WEIGHT, HE SWAM, CRASH, IN TO THE ANCHOR.
THE HEAVY ANCHOR MOVED JUST A LITTLE BIT AND HERBERT COULD WRIGGLE FREE.
ALL THE BABY FISH GAVE A LOUD CHEER, AND WILLIE SAID, "IT WAS EASY FOR A BIG BABY FISH LIKE ME".
HERBERT SAID, "THANKYOU WILLIE, I AM VERY SORRY THAT I CALLED YOU NAMES, I WILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN".
WILLIE AND HERBERT, CHARLIE AND ELVIS, SAMMY AND ALL THE OTHER BABY FISH PLAYED TOGETHER, BUT, WHEN IT WAS WILLIES TURN TO HIDE THE OTHER BABY FISH FOUND HIM VERY QUICKLY.