Elizabeth Does Stuff
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Elizabeth Finds A Fish
Elizabeth loves animals, and often goes to the zoo to see the live animals shown in her books. She knows all their names. But she has never actually seen a really truly live fish.
One day she notices a picture of a fish in one of her animal books (she has a lot of animal books). She asks her granddad if she could meet a real live fish.
Her granddad tells her fish are very shy, but he will see if he can get one to meet her. He tells her that while most fish have fins and tails like the ones in her books, some have wings or arms or legs. He tells her he will see if he can get one of those to
meet her, as well as one of the ordinary kind.
She asks when. He tells her he will try to arrange a meeting next Tuesday.
Elizabeth can hardly wait.
She dreams about the meeting, and how it will be.
Did it turn out that way?
Elizabeth Finds The Longest Pipe
As Elizabeth grows up her grandparents begin to take her out to do more ‘stuff ’. She never knows what the ‘stuff ’ will be until she gets to actually doing it. But ‘stuff ’ is always new, exciting, interesting and fun.
One day they take her to a little bush railway leading to a dam in the hills near her house. She’s never been on a train before. It goes deep into the bush, over rivers, through tunnels (she’s never been in a tunnel before), and she sees bugs which can
light themselves up all by themselves without batteries. She meets a sneaky shape, and finds the biggest ever puddle and longest ever pipe.
She sees something her granddad tells her never ever to try cut at home – he says it’s guaranteed to make mothers really upset and grumpy.
What did she see?
Can she resist temptation?
About the Author
For thirty years he was a partner in a law firm at Auckland in New Zealand. In 1997 he purchased the totally bare hull of a burnt out fishing trawler as a retirement project for the distant future. He’d always wanted a big family boat. In 1999 he had a major stroke. It forced him into retirement. Clearly project time had arrived. But it proved much bigger and more complicated than he’d ever imagined. It took over six years. He renamed the boat HOSFUS (don’t ask!). About four years its re-launch, he became unable to bend enough to do even normal maintenance on it, and had to sell it. Selling was like a death in the family. He is now old and crunchy, retired, and completely devoted to the pursuit of slack living. In the course of slack living he wrote these two stories for his granddaughter Elizabeth.