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Nessie's Grotto
By Sue Clarke
Have you heard about the Loch Ness monster? Nessie is a monster who lives in a deep lake in Scotland. Read and listen to a story about Nessie.
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Of course down at the bottom of the lake the water is very dark and murky and you can't really see much. I have to use my own sonar systems to catch fish. Anyway, one morning I was very sleepy and my sonar systems were not working very well and I swam right into the scientists' equipment.
OUCH!

I think I said some bad words which they picked up on their equipment. I found out later that they said I sounded like a mixture of a 'snorting horse' and 'an eating pig' – now that wasn't very nice, was it?

Oh dear! Mad Mick has heard me...
  So – Mad Mick and the other men went off for a few days and I thought my life would be quiet after that. But I was wrong!! The next week I was happily going for a morning swim around the bottom of the lake when I discovered a sort of round space-ship object called a 'probe' moving around in the dark water.  

It was yellow, and through its windows I could see that man Mad Mick again. It had lots of flashing lights and cameras, and when the men saw me the lights started flashing even more. I suppose they wanted lots of photographs.

I HATE CAMERAS!

Mad Mick can see me through the window.

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