Dodo

Dodo

dodo is always hungry. He can eat mountains - and often does —

One day, when Dodo was tucking into the side of a mountain, a robber saw him and thought he was digging for gold.

“Give me all your gold!” shouted the robber, pointing his gun at Dodo. “But I haven’t got any —” said Dodo, “— except for the golden sunbeams. I dance on them.”

And Dodo did a dance on a sunbeam.

“If you can do that,” said the robber, “then you can dance over the rainbow.”

“Of course I can,” said Dodo.

“Well, there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Go and get it - or I’ll blast your beak off!”

So Dodo danced to the top of the rainbow, with the sun shining in his eyes and the rain falling on his feathers.

Then, he slid down the other side. And there really was gold at the rainbow’s end!

Dodo picked it up in his beak. But as he reached the top, the rainbow began to fade from under his feet. Down below, the robber yelled, “Throw me the gold before the rainbow fades!”

So Dodo did. But the pot was so heavy that it flattened the robber—

— and all the gold spilled out in a glittering, sparkling heap. Dodo wondered what to do with it. “I could leave it here,” he thought.

“But it’s wrong to waste money.” So he ate it.