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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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Suddenly, with no warning, a long dart flew out of the yellow probe and hit me in the side. OUCH!
I think it was some sort of stun gun, as I immediately felt very sleepy. I swam slowly back to my grotto and slept for the rest of that day. When I woke up, I was still very angry with Mad Mick!

After a few days I felt better and things on the lake were quiet. The weather was nice and foggy so I could swim around more on the surface. One day I swam all the way up to Lochend near Inverness, which is quite a long way! The whole lake is 24 miles long, so you can imagine I was quite tired when I got back. Just as I was having a nice rest in my cave, it started ...  

 
  ... the banging sounds and then the explosions! I had a look outside my cave, and there was Mad Mick and the yellow underwater probe again! This time it just wasn't funny! They had planted dynamite in the rocks near my grotto. After the explosions the rocks were falling down and I thought they would block the door to the cave!!  

 I went outside and decided to swim under the yellow probe and bump it. They went away in a hurry then!

Mad Mick's gone. But will he come back again?

 
 

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