狮子莱恩（一）（作者：绿野仙踪）（待读） [ 绿野仙踪 ] 于:2008-04-25 20:54:15
A door was opened in the dark. Something round and red flew in with a beam of light.

“Wow, a juicy steak!” Ryan stretched out his hands.  His mouth was watering.

“Pa!” The steak landed on Ryan’s face.

Ryan took a bite and thought, “This steak is too tough.”

“Hey, buddy! Why are you eating paper? This is a letter! ” Rabbit Cindy jumped in from outside the window and rescued the letter out of Ryan’s mouth.

Ryan woke up with empty stomach and sniffed. There was no smell of steak only the light scent of rosin.

“Dearest Cindy, thank you for waking me up from my steak dream,” said Ryan getting up from his bed. “I’m so starving though. I could eat a whole rabbit. Sorry, I mean, a whole French cow.”

Cindy glanced at Ryan and passed him the letter. Ryan’s eyes sparkled as he was reading the letter.

“It’s from Molly! She has moved to a small island and is inviting me to visit her!” said Ryan as he threw the letter and spun around the room in delight. “You remember Molly, don’t you? We all competed in the race. The tortoise beat you and Molly the squirrel beat me.”

“Yeah, the slow tortoise won because I fell asleep. But you…did you fall in love with the little squirrel?”

“Well, I have to admit.” Ryan shrugged. “I followed Molly because I admired her long furry tail.  Lions do not have such beautiful tails, you know.”

“Neither do rabbits.” Cindy added.

“It doesn’t matter. You must come with me anyway.” said Ryan, “Let’s pack our things and leave first thing in the morning.”

“Wait a minute,” Cindy said as picked up the letter and read it carefully, “It sounds as though the island is far away from here and there is a big river in between.”

“Are you a sea lion?” asked Cindy.

“Nope.”

“Then I think we will need a boat and two life jackets.” Cindy told Ryan.

(to be continue)