Long, long ago, a lizard called lennie lived in garden behind a big house. it was a nice garden, with warm rocks for basking on, agapanthus bushes for sleeping under, and lots of delicious snails. loved eating snails - crisp and crunchy on the outside, smooth and slimy on the inside. YUM!!!Late one afternoon, Lennie was settling down for a snooze under an agapanthus bush, when ... BANG!!! went the back door. into the garden came a horrible dirty giant. she was really disgusting. She Wore a revolting old sack for a dress, and her hair was tangled and greasy and her face was smeard with grime as if she hadn't washed it for a month. Lennie pressed himself deep into the agapanthus, but the seckdress giant was too quick for him. Her dirty bare feet kicked the leaves aside. She grabbed.

Lennie by the tail and carried him inside. Bang!!! went the back door again. it was dark in the kitchen of the big house, but when his eyes grew used to the light, Lennie saw there was a whole crowd in there. There was another lizard and six mice and a rat called ferdi, whom Lennie knew slightly because he lived in the garden compost bin. There was another giant too, a wrinkly old giant, carrying an enormous pink club with a shard silver star on the end. The wrinkly whacked Lennie over the head with her club. There an enormouse puff of pink smoke and, next think Lennie know, he growing.His legs became longer, and his tail became shorter. His smooth comfortable skin was stretch so tight it seemed to choke him. Suddenly he was covered with tight leggings

and a velvet jacket, and a staff collar prickled around his neck. his head shot up towards the ceiling, then stopped, leaving him eyeball to eyeball with the wrinkly giant. exclaimed Lennie. The wrinkly giant said, 'Don't worry, dear. I just changed you into a footman.' 'Well, you change me back right now,' said Lennie. 'I didn't ask to be a footman. I don't even know what a footman is.' 'I' II change you back when the clock strikes twelve,' said the wrinkly giant. 'Till then, you have a job to do. Hang on the back of the coach and when it stops at the Palace, open the door for the lady.'

'What's a palace?' asked Lennie. 'What's a job?' asked the other lizard. but by then the wrinkly giant was busy whacking a pumpkin became a coach with ferdi as the driver.

and the poor little mice turned into huge hideous white horses, harnessed in a line in front of it,

Then the wrinkly giankly giant whacked the sackdress giant with the pink club and guess what happened to her? All her clothes fell off! One more whack of the pink stick and she had new clothes, and her was shiny and she was wearing glass slippers with silver toecaps.'All aboard,' said the wrinkly giant. She winked and smiled, as if this was all great fun. Then she raised her pink club again. Lennie and the other lizard footman quickly climbed on the back of the coach and hung on, just as the wrinkly giant had told them. ferdi the rat cracked a whip and the mice started running for their lives. they did't want to get whacked again.