Ram on the Roof

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Granny is making jam when a huge black-faced woolly ram trots into her kitchen. Brave Granny shoos him out, flapping her apron madly. Ram runs back outside, around the side of the house, up the bank and comes in the open laundry door on the second storey. Uh-oh! Granny finds him standing on the spare bed with dirty hooves, where her washing is folded neatly. Oh-no!Granny doesn't want to startle him in case he poops on the bed; she quietly sidles around the bed and threatens to turn him into mutton stew if he doesn't get off the bed. Ram jumps down, races along the passage into her bedroom and leaps onto the window seat. Granny arrives in her bedroom in time to see him rise up on his back legs and attack his own reflection in the window, and then he is on the roof surrounded by broken glass and window frame.The farmer drives by, sees Ram on the roof and comes charging up the driveway. He chases Ram up and down on the iron roof trying to grab him, but in vain. At last Granny opens the large casement window and Ram jumps through, runs along the passage, out though the laundry door, then the top gate and is back in the paddock at last. Granny races behind him and shuts the gate. The farmer promises to do the repairs. But Ram has enjoyed himself and he plans another visit as soon as his skinned nose heals up. This is a true story. It happened to me. The action is fast moving and the pictures colourful. The story is written in verse because children love rhyme and rhythm, and adults enjoy reading it.