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Once upon a time

A long, long, long... really long time ago,

at the very least, the day before yesterday

There was a far distant land

It was a really, really, really long way away,

at the very least, a mile past the end of your street

There was green grass, and tall trees. Blue Sky,

and the fluffiest whitest cloud's that there ever were,

and so many caves

that you could explore them all forever

and still not see every single one of them

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and in this land there lived a dragon...

he had green skin, with yellow spots,

the bluest eyes, you ever did see.

And the hair sprouting out of the top of his head...

was a bright, bright, bright, bright, red

and this dragons name

was Perilon

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Perilon lived in a two storey, terraced cave,

third cave-door down on the right.

Upstairs was the biggest best-est bedroom

in the whole wide world

and down stairs...

he had hot and cold running streams

and in the bath room

was the best of all....

on the far far wall,

a water fall,

just perfect for a morning shower

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Now one day poor, poor Perilon

had awoken with a cold,

his nose was almost

as red as the tuft of bright red hair

on top of his head

Now you might think that you have it rough

when you have a cold

but poor poor Perilon...

when ever he would sneeze...

"ahhh ahhh ahhh choooo"

a burst of flame would shoot out of

the end of his nose

Poor poor perilon

Laugh though you may,

but you try blowing your nose

when your tissues turn to ash at every sneeze

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Poor poor Perilon felt miserable.

Now he knew he had some medicine

and that the medicine would make his cold go away

but it tasted so disgusting, so awful, so decidedly gross

that it was even worse than Brussels sprouts.

so silly silly Perilon

refused to take it, and decided to see

if the cold would go away all on its own

He sat up in bed

and sneezed so hard...."ahh ahh ahhh chooo"

... that a flame shot out of his nose

The flame was so... so... so... very long

that it melted the night light candle next to his bed

into a boiling, bubbling puddle of wax

poor poor perilon

he sniffled and tried to go back to sleep

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Now word had soon gotten around

that Perilon was not feeling very well

and before long presents,

flowers and get well cards

started arriving at his cave

now wasn't that nice of every one.

Why even Mrs Warg Worm next door

had brought him up a box of candies

and a blanket she had spun

from her very own silk...

she said it was a magic blanket

that would

chase the cold away real fast.

Now you may well think

that anything made out of silk

from a warg worms bottom

is a very gross present indeed,

but once its washed

it makes the softest, warmest, cosiest

blanket in the whole wide world

and its flame proof too.

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Perilon wrapped the blanket

around his shoulders.

he felt awful

but... at least now

he had some presents to enjoy,

and all the good wishes

from all his friends

and all his neighbours

{all, he suspected, except...

little Jimmy Warthog from number 7

who was so mean

he would pull all the girls pigtails

and would trip up all the boys}

he grinned and opened the candies

and then...... you got it....

" ahh ahh ahhh choooooo "

all the candy melted

into gooey soggy bubbly mess

but still.....

he wouldn't take his medicine

Silly silly Perilon

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