Free Selby Snowbound by Duncan Ball Page B

andcozy down here. I’ve got an idea: let’s have a look at the pictures we took of Bogusville.’
    ‘They took pictures of Bogusville?’ Selby thought. ‘They actually turned the telescope around and pointed it down here! Wow! This is going to be fun!’
    Dr Trifle found the photo of Australia and then zoomed down to Bogusville. As he zoomed closer and closer Selby could see houses and then people appear.
    ‘The people all look like ants,’ Mrs Trifle said. ‘Make it bigger so we can see them properly.’
    Dr Trifle clicked the computer mouse and made things bigger and bigger.
    ‘Look! There’s Aunt Jetty!’ Mrs Trifle cried. ‘You can see her perfectly. And look! She was picking her nose when we took the photo. She didn’t know she was being spied on from space. Isn’t that a riot!’
    ‘Yeah, a disgusting riot,’ Selby thought. ‘That woman gives me the shivers even when she
doesn’t
have her finger halfway up her nose. Yuck!’
    ‘Let’s zoom in on our house,’ Dr Trifle said, moving across the town till the top of the house was in view.
    ‘What’s the point?’ asked Mrs Trifle. ‘There was nobody at home. We were at the tracking station, remember?’
    ‘Maybe we’ll see Selby,’ Dr Trifle said. ‘Maybe he was outside somewhere.’
    ‘Gulp,’ Selby thought. ‘They were actually spying on me! I’m not sure I like this.’
    ‘Hmmm, I wonder if that’s him in the back yard next to the pool?’ said Mrs Trifle. ‘There’s sort of a blob-like thing there on the lounge.’
    ‘Oh, no!’ Selby thought as the sweat began to pour down his forehead. ‘I was out there reading that stupid book and they were looking down on me! They’re going to catch me reading! I’m about to be sprung — from space by that stupid Sky Eye spy!’
    ‘Let’s zoom in a little closer,’ Mrs Trifle said. ‘I can’t quite make out what I’m looking at.’
    ‘Oh, woe,’ Selby thought. ‘This is it. This is the end. The Trifles are about to find out that I’m not just an ordinary non-star-gazing dog but the only real live talking, thinking, book-readingdog in Australia and, perhaps, the world. I might as well tell them before they find out for themselves.’
    Selby put his paws up on the computer table and cleared his throat ready to say: ‘Okay, okay, turn that silly thing off — you caught me,’ when Dr Trifle clicked the computer mouse again.
    Suddenly a strange image filled the screen. It was all blue but sprinkled with little white dots.
    ‘Hey, that’s not me,’ Selby thought. ‘It’s
Percy Peach’s Planet Plan!
— the star map! Just when they took the picture I was holding the star map over my head and that stupid Sky Eye couldn’t see me! Thank goodness for that!’
    ‘This is very strange,’ Dr Trifle said. ‘The telescope must have turned around again. I do believe we’re looking back out into space. That’s what all those white dots are: they’re stars and planets.’
    ‘But there’s something very unusual about them,’ Mrs Trifle said.
    ‘They just look like stars to me,’ Dr Trifle said.
    ‘Except — they have all their names printed next to them. It’s just the way it should be,’ Mrs Trifle said, looking out the window to see ifthe names were next to the stars. ‘That is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.’
    ‘What a close call!’ Selby thought as he breathed a sigh of relief and headed off to get a good night’s sleep. ‘And Percy Peach was dead right: that planet plan of his certainly is a life-saver. Well it saved my life, anyway!’
    Paw note: See the story ‘Selby Soars to New Heights’ in the book
Selby Speaks.
You’ll love it!
    Paw note: I do love spy stuff. For more of my adventures read ‘Selby Supersnoop, Dog Detective’ in the book
Selby Supersnoop.

SELBY’S SALSA
    ‘This Pablito Coco is the greatest bandleader ever!’ Selby thought as he whirled around the floor. ‘I just love his music! When I hear that beat I’ve just gotta use my