"What's happened?" lamented the fluffiest
Snoodle.
"Maybe people think that Snoodles should
wake up earlier.' one of them ventured.
"Oh No!" they cried in unison. "Everybody
knows that Snoodles need their sleep!"
"Maybe we've been naughty." whispered
the smallest Snoodle, his eyes large and round. There was a shocked silence.
"We haven't been naughty have we?"
they whittered in distress.
"Oh no! We're only little!"
"This must be anti-Snoodle day." trembled
the cuddliest Snoodle. The Snoodles whittered and goulooed and ran to one
another and got all their duvets confused.
"Surely there's not an anti-Snoodle day,'
said the roundest Snoodle. "Everyone loves Snoodles and we're only little."
"And round."
"And cuddly."
"Maybe we should go to Whitehall and ask
the important people what we've done wrong.' suggested the littlest Snoodle.
"Then maybe they'll forgive us."
"Oh yes,' they all agreed.
"But it's so far away." said the fluffiest
Snoodle "I'd be afraid to go all that way, even in my Snoodle mobile
and when I got there I'd be too scared to talk to the important people."
"I know!" Said the fattest Snoodle
who had just struggled out of his second bowl of cornflakes, "Let's write
down what we want to say on bits of card and glue handles on them so we can
hold them up to be read."
"Ooh, what a clever idea." agreed the
Snoodles, "And if we had a song to sing it would give us courage."
So the little Snoodles pattered off to prepare
their placards and their Snoodle mobiles. All the while, they sang their new
song.
"Onward little Snoodles,Going to Whitehall.
With our stock of Blankets, wrapped up in a ball.
Snoodles at the rear, snap their duvets on,
Forward into Whitehall, Snoodling as one."
A Snoodle mobile is the Snoodles' favoured mode
of transport, mainly because they have such little legs and it allows them
to snoodle in transit. A Snoodle mobile consists of a snoodling surface complete
with mattress, pillows and mobile duvet (one that can be clipped to the mattress
to prevent it from flying off) a wooden back rest to stop the pillows from
falling off and a post at each corner. The whole ensemble is mounted on castors.
In fact Snoodle mobiles are often mistaken for beds except of course that
beds don't tend to trundle down high streets or park in library car parks.
When the exhausted Snoodles had finished their
preparations, each one climbed into his Snoodle mobile and set off for Whitehall.
Snoodle mobiles are not designed for long journeys. They are usually used
to ferry the Snoodle from one sleeping place to another because they can never
decide which one they like best. Travelling a long distance proved too much
for some of the mobiles and the rescue services were working full time pulling
Snoodle mobiles out of ditches and reuniting frightened Snoodles with their
duvets.
