Stanley and the Magic Lamp - Jeff Brown [11]
Stanley and Arthur got into bed, and she turned out the light.
“The lamp was supposed to be a surprise birthday present,” Stanley said sleepily. “Now it won’t be a surprise at all.”
“I will love it anyhow,” said Mrs. Lambchop. “And Prince Haraz was a tremendous surprise. Good night, my dears.”
She kissed them both, and so did Mr. Lambchop, and they went out.
The brothers lay quietly in the darkness for a while, and then Stanley sighed. “I miss the Liophant a bit,” he said. “But I don’t mind about the rest.”
“Me neither.” Arthur yawned. “Florts, Stanley, and good night.”
“Good night,” Stanley said. “Collibots.”
“Mandrono,” murmured Arthur, and soon they were both asleep.
The End
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Where Is Stanley?
“Breakfast is ready, George. We must wake the boys,” Mrs. Lambchop said to her husband.
Just then, Arthur Lambchop called from the bedroom he shared with his brother.
“Hey! Come here! Hey!”
Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop smiled, recalling another morning that had begun like this. An enormous bulletin board, they discovered, had fallen on Stanley during the night, leaving him unhurt but no more than half an inch thick. And so he had remained until Arthur blew him round again, weeks later, with a bicycle pump.
“Hey!” The call came again. “Are you coming? Hey!”
Mrs. Lambchop held firm views about good manners and correct speech. “Hay is for horses, not people, Arthur,” she said as they entered the bedroom. “As well you know.”
“Excuse me,” said Arthur. “The thing is, I can hear Stanley, but I can’t find him!”
Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop looked about the room. A shape was visible beneath the covers of Stanley’s bed, and the pillow was squashed down, as if a head rested upon it. But there was no head.
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Stanley and the Magic Lamp
Originally published as A Lamp for the Lambchops
Text copyright © 1983 by Jeff Brown
Illustrations by Macky Pamintuan, copyright © 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers
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