Volume VII
"Jus Draco Nobilis, Watson". Holmes continued expansively,
"Commonly known as The Soup Dragon* [see below for the results of
the latest research]. An extremely rare creature who can be
persuaded to mine pure soup ore in exchange for gin and tonics. Now, let us
calmly explore this new discovery."
"Aiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!" I remarked as sheer terror lent me the
wings to levitate back up the mine shaft. The sheer terror that naturally and
spontaneously occurs when confronted by a fiercesome, fire-breathing dragon who
is more than moderately miffed to find that there is a human in her soup.
"I said 'calmly'," Holmes complained. "What, pray, is
calm about screaming 'aiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee!'?"
Latest Bulletin from the Camborne School of Mines
Soup-Dragon
In fact she should be called the Soup-Dragon because there aren't any
soup-dragons living anywhere else. She lives inside the planet. She cooks soup
in the volcanic wells that lie under the pointed chimney hills at the edge of
the copper tree wood. She cooks red soup, green soup and sometimes even
purply-blue
soup.
The Clangers are her friends and are glad she is there because soup is their
favourite food. In fact, apart from the blue-string pudding that grows on the
roof, it is their only food. Luckily it has been calculated that there is enough
soup in the wells to last the Clangers for another 7,384,497,003 years, if they
are careful.
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