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- Story Listed as: Fiction For Kids
- Theme: Fairy Tales & Fantasy
- Subject: Childhood / Youth
- Published: 08/21/2013
A DOG'S LIFE
Born 1969, M, from Herten, NRW, GermanyOnce upon a time there was a dog. Initially, he lived in an amusement park named Liseberg in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. He was one of countless dogs at a wheel of fortune, where children came and tried their affluence.
This dog’s name was Ludde.
He was kind, gentle and modest and would accept most cards that life dealt. Day after day, he sat there next to the circle of chance and waited for some child to come and win him. Without luck. He wished for a charming youngster that could cuddle him and take him with on spectacular adventures. His dreams never ceased to fulfil his days, even during the most hopeless of rainy afternoons.
One summer day in 1977, Lady Fortuna arrived and his luck magically changed. A little boy named Charlie stopped at the helm of riches. Ludde liked the boy right away. He was joking with his mum about the violinist Ronnie Hartley and his sentimental songs and spoke entertainingly with his father about the amusing jokes he had heard on TV the preceding night. His colourful T-shirt and baseball cap gave him an appearance of intelligence and tranquillity. Oh, how he hoped that he would be picked up by this little boy and taken away on a stunning exploit. What number did the boy bet on. 24? Hmm, that sounded like a good number.
Oh, please, please, let him win me, the dog thought.
Ludde was lucky. The boy not only won a prize, the man behind the counter picked Ludde as a present for the boy. All day long, Charlie held Ludde in his arms at every amusement park ride as a result of his luck, while Charlie painted pictures and ate pop corn. Ludde was experiencing Canine Bliss. This was doggie paradise.
Soon enough, Charlie was sitting in his mother’s Ford Cortina going home to Kungshöjdsgatan 6 and looking forward to introducing Ludde to his new friends: the smurfs, the snixes, Bamse the Bear, the Snoopies, Uggel-Guggel and Klampe-Lampe and, of course, Ludde’s new best friend Linus, also a brown cocker spaniel.
Linus and Ludde became best friends. Linus was bigger and a bit on the light brown side. Ludde’s dark brown complexion gave him a great advantage among the doggie women. He also had that alluring gaze that so many dog girls loved. They did everything together.
Bamse the Bear was the principal of an animal school, located under the hill of a big playground where the family walked their dog. There were many dogs that lived in the neighbourhood and every dog became his friend: the Labrador Moses, the Basset Hound Salome, the Irish Setter Flame, the Dachshund Lufsen and the pretty dog Sessan. The Moulton family dog was the Cocker Spaniel Snuffy, who had a nice baritone voice. He loved to jump up and down in the high grass on the hill above the big playground.
Under that hill, in an underground city, Bamse taught his students the subject of Animalology. Bamse, the old bear, was a great teacher. As recreation away from their studies, Ludde, Linus and the Snoopies founded a rock band called Snoopy and the Rappers. They had concerts every weekend in the school’s own concert hall. Telling Charlie about the concerts, this boy soon began understanding how overworked Ludde was from studying, playing and working.
It was high time for some fun.
A trip was soon planned to relieve Ludde from all the stress.
The high point of Ludde’s existence was a trip to London with Mama Gun in the summer of 1979. They lived at Hotel Tenma. Ludde, very faithful to his emotional lifestyle, fell in love with a Spanish maid in the hotel named Maria. She tended to Ludde’s every wish and command. They both knew that they would eventually would have to part, living such diverse lifestyles. Ludde took comfort in the arms of s small brown Dachshund named Duckie.
In order to divert Ludde’s attention away from love trouble, the Moultons met Christopher Timothy. He was the star of the TV-show “All Creatures Great and Small”. This show was about the animal doctor James Harriot and the family followed this tale religiously every week.
Timothy was performing a show in London called Happy Birthday close to the West End and Charlie was very proud at being able to meet the famous actor.
Ludde, too, was swollen with satisfaction, although he was afraid the actor was going to operate on his tail.
They had to explain to Ludde that it was just a part the actor was playing. Ludde was relieved and at once began to chatter and giggle.
Charlie’s Godfather, the well-known composer Jim Wilson, arrived in London and together they all went shopping, sightseeing and watching musicals. Especially impressive was their visit to the musical “Oliver!”, where a real dog joined the actors on stage. Ludde found it magnificent that a canine colleague was becoming a famous animal thespian. Ludde was very joyous to be a part of Charlie’s life and Charlie was happy to be a part of Ludde’s life.
Once back in Gothenburg, Ludde told his friends all about the trip. The Snoopies alleged that they wanted to experience an adventure of their own and promptly went out searching for submarines, as a Russian submarine had been sighted in Sweden at the time. Linus really wanted to experience something else exciting, as well. Ludde recommended that he and Linus go out into the night and find some fun, something that they both would recall with affection.
At first, the two friends found nothing but dog walkers and cinemas with billboards announcing the newest movies. When they arrived at a huge pasture next to a woodland, an escapade did appear. Never did they imagine such an exciting activity would arrive at their well trained paws.
A spaceship could be seen flying down from the heavens. It was round with millions of lights. Two dogs stuck their heads out of the window in the space ship. The one with the yellow and purple stripes smiled at Ludde. She said: “My name is Mona!” The other one was pink with white spots and said: “My name is Nedan!” Together, they sang: “We are moon dogs and we have observed you. Please come to us. We want to marry you. Kissy-Kissy!”
Well, needless to say, Ludde and Linus were, in that old turn of phrase, flabbergasted in hearing that two female dogs from the moon were interested in them as mates.
Immediately, the two ardently amorous gents rushed to Charlie. Ludde and Linus had been up all night talking about the dogs. They just had to fly to the moon. Charlie was a smart boy. They were sure that he would know how to build a rocket.
As Charlie was eating breakfast, pondering affectionately over his joghurt and flakes with strawberries, he listened to the dogs and their tale of love.
He laughed as a reply, saying that he could not possibly build a rocket. After all, he was not a scientist.
Ludde and Linus pleaded. This was the chance of a lifetime.
Well, it just so happened that he knew an astronomer that built rockets in his free time. Maybe he could help them.
Within a week, the new spaceship was standing ready in the yard of Kungshöjdsgatan 6. The dogs were ready to take off to the moon with none other than Charlie himself as a pilot. He had received a crash course in astronomic engineering that week.
Well, as Ludde and Linus landed on the moon they discovered that they could jump much higher than on Earth. Their lunar acrobatics were soon interrupted by amazing cries of love by their colourful female doggies.
“Ludde! Liiiiiiiiiiiiiinus! Ow-ow-owww-oy-oyyyoy!”
They exclaimed that they wanted to make lots of babies with them and that their own one mile long church, the moon word for this
being Schonka, would be a perfect place for matrimony.
Charlie acted as priest, his vows reading as follows: “Do you, Ludde Moulton, take this bride to be your lawfully wedded wife and promise to be nice to her and never talk back?”
“I do.”
Soon enough, the two couples were doggie husband and doggie wife. Walking out of the Schonka, they were blissful.
Unfortunately, Mona and Nedan’s old boyfriends New and Full arrived at exactly the wrong time and claimed that they wanted Mona and Nedan to themselves. Mona and Nedan refused to even look at them and said that Ludde and Linus now were their boys and no one could stop them.
A wild race through outer space began, where New and Full chased the four dogs back to a forest on Earth. Desperate for some place to hide, they received refuge in Woody Woodpecker’s hut. This bird immediately began building a tree house for the four dogs, where Charlie would live as well, and insisted on staying there until New and Full had disappeared.
The Earth dogs had bad luck. New and Full did arrive and abducted Mona and Nedan, telling them fake stories about how evil Ludde and Linus were, how boring their fur was and how much better they would treated by dogs that came from outer space.
Mona and Nedan had big fights with Ludde and Linus. This, at least, until they realized that New and Full were lying. In a spectacular rescue, New and Full were chased away and never seen from again.
However, there were other problems ahead. An evil witch named Mishawashalinga appeared, prompted by the antics of her rival Macadabus. She had travelled through time and brought some Vikings with her from that other time, who immediately threatened to eat the dogs. It took all their strength to convince the Vikings that Mishawashalinga was fooling them. They did manage to get the needed trust of the Vikings, but the witch was temporarily stronger. Before disappearing totally into the mists of time, she put a magic spell on the dogs that transported them far away.
Everyone, including the Vikings, found themselves in Africa in the middle of a crazy dance party. They were gone faster than arrived, running to the nearest city on camels and jumping onto a bus that took them to God knows where. The bus was empty, except for an old man sitting in the back. They soon discovered that this old man was none other than Bamse the bear, who had come there to save them.
Mishawashalinga was back and this time she was making them fly, hoping to transport them back to the moon in order to have New and Full win the race. The famous Swedish detective Ture Sventon served as a informer on the bus. He had been hiding under the seats. They could make everything all right again if they only closed their eyes and said: “There is no place like home!” three times in a row.
They did so. Before the bus entered the stratosphere, Mishawashalinga was gone and with her the Vikings and Ture Sventon. Bamse was a happy bear and so were the dogs.
Well, Ludde and Linus were quite tired after all these exciting adventures. They decided to enjoy nuptial, canine bliss for a bit. Nevertheless, soon enough, that old desire to explore the unknown overwhelmed them and the gang flew to New York and helped Charlie audition for Gene Kelly. Charlie’s rendition of Singing in the Rain overwhelmed Gene Kelly and would promptly see Charlie singing on Broadway.
Dogs will be dogs and so the two pals decided to travel to more unusual lands, after they returned in Sweden. They took a train from Gothenburg Central Station that seemed to lead nowhere. The train actually finally did stop somewhere in a strange land they never ever had heard of named Imitate-Me in the capital of Repeat-After-Me. The president was Monkey-Cat and his king was King Parrot. Their temporary home Hotel Royal was a place of nerve racking tension, as no one would tell them anything.
It was a very frustrating experience for the dogs. Every time they asked a question they received not the answer, but the inquiry in another form. This brought Ludde to conceive one of his more brilliant plans. One day, he uttered the tongue twister about Peter Piper picking of peck of pickled peppers. He uttered it so fast and so often that the population, if not the entire country, was on a stand still. Suddenly, they could not imitate one another any more. They had to think for themselves.
“What are we going to do?” became the main question all around town. Soon, however, that changed. The dogs were awarded the medal of honour for their contribution to their society. The land was renamed “Be-Unique” and the capital “Say-Something-Special”. The president renamed himself “Soul-Man” and the king decided now to call himself “King Humane I”. To celebrate all of this, they sang the song: “I am what I am” followed by “My Way”.
The tour that took the canines around the world was, to say the very least, unique. They came to the Blueberry-Land, where they rode on a boat made out of bread in a sea of blueberry juice. They also visited the Multi Vitamin Drink Land and had never felt so strong as when they left the country to go back to Gothenburg.
After all these wonderful adventures, it was time to go back home to Charlie’s bed. After all, when Charlie wasn’t playing the drums, it was a restful place to be.
The Moulton residence in Gothenburg was a calm position to reside in. The Snoopies probably had their own tales to tell.
They had had enough adventures for now.
Soon, they were all moving to Vienna and this was going to prove itself as the biggest adventure of them all.
A DOG'S LIFE(Charles E.J. Moulton)
Once upon a time there was a dog. Initially, he lived in an amusement park named Liseberg in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. He was one of countless dogs at a wheel of fortune, where children came and tried their affluence.
This dog’s name was Ludde.
He was kind, gentle and modest and would accept most cards that life dealt. Day after day, he sat there next to the circle of chance and waited for some child to come and win him. Without luck. He wished for a charming youngster that could cuddle him and take him with on spectacular adventures. His dreams never ceased to fulfil his days, even during the most hopeless of rainy afternoons.
One summer day in 1977, Lady Fortuna arrived and his luck magically changed. A little boy named Charlie stopped at the helm of riches. Ludde liked the boy right away. He was joking with his mum about the violinist Ronnie Hartley and his sentimental songs and spoke entertainingly with his father about the amusing jokes he had heard on TV the preceding night. His colourful T-shirt and baseball cap gave him an appearance of intelligence and tranquillity. Oh, how he hoped that he would be picked up by this little boy and taken away on a stunning exploit. What number did the boy bet on. 24? Hmm, that sounded like a good number.
Oh, please, please, let him win me, the dog thought.
Ludde was lucky. The boy not only won a prize, the man behind the counter picked Ludde as a present for the boy. All day long, Charlie held Ludde in his arms at every amusement park ride as a result of his luck, while Charlie painted pictures and ate pop corn. Ludde was experiencing Canine Bliss. This was doggie paradise.
Soon enough, Charlie was sitting in his mother’s Ford Cortina going home to Kungshöjdsgatan 6 and looking forward to introducing Ludde to his new friends: the smurfs, the snixes, Bamse the Bear, the Snoopies, Uggel-Guggel and Klampe-Lampe and, of course, Ludde’s new best friend Linus, also a brown cocker spaniel.
Linus and Ludde became best friends. Linus was bigger and a bit on the light brown side. Ludde’s dark brown complexion gave him a great advantage among the doggie women. He also had that alluring gaze that so many dog girls loved. They did everything together.
Bamse the Bear was the principal of an animal school, located under the hill of a big playground where the family walked their dog. There were many dogs that lived in the neighbourhood and every dog became his friend: the Labrador Moses, the Basset Hound Salome, the Irish Setter Flame, the Dachshund Lufsen and the pretty dog Sessan. The Moulton family dog was the Cocker Spaniel Snuffy, who had a nice baritone voice. He loved to jump up and down in the high grass on the hill above the big playground.
Under that hill, in an underground city, Bamse taught his students the subject of Animalology. Bamse, the old bear, was a great teacher. As recreation away from their studies, Ludde, Linus and the Snoopies founded a rock band called Snoopy and the Rappers. They had concerts every weekend in the school’s own concert hall. Telling Charlie about the concerts, this boy soon began understanding how overworked Ludde was from studying, playing and working.
It was high time for some fun.
A trip was soon planned to relieve Ludde from all the stress.
The high point of Ludde’s existence was a trip to London with Mama Gun in the summer of 1979. They lived at Hotel Tenma. Ludde, very faithful to his emotional lifestyle, fell in love with a Spanish maid in the hotel named Maria. She tended to Ludde’s every wish and command. They both knew that they would eventually would have to part, living such diverse lifestyles. Ludde took comfort in the arms of s small brown Dachshund named Duckie.
In order to divert Ludde’s attention away from love trouble, the Moultons met Christopher Timothy. He was the star of the TV-show “All Creatures Great and Small”. This show was about the animal doctor James Harriot and the family followed this tale religiously every week.
Timothy was performing a show in London called Happy Birthday close to the West End and Charlie was very proud at being able to meet the famous actor.
Ludde, too, was swollen with satisfaction, although he was afraid the actor was going to operate on his tail.
They had to explain to Ludde that it was just a part the actor was playing. Ludde was relieved and at once began to chatter and giggle.
Charlie’s Godfather, the well-known composer Jim Wilson, arrived in London and together they all went shopping, sightseeing and watching musicals. Especially impressive was their visit to the musical “Oliver!”, where a real dog joined the actors on stage. Ludde found it magnificent that a canine colleague was becoming a famous animal thespian. Ludde was very joyous to be a part of Charlie’s life and Charlie was happy to be a part of Ludde’s life.
Once back in Gothenburg, Ludde told his friends all about the trip. The Snoopies alleged that they wanted to experience an adventure of their own and promptly went out searching for submarines, as a Russian submarine had been sighted in Sweden at the time. Linus really wanted to experience something else exciting, as well. Ludde recommended that he and Linus go out into the night and find some fun, something that they both would recall with affection.
At first, the two friends found nothing but dog walkers and cinemas with billboards announcing the newest movies. When they arrived at a huge pasture next to a woodland, an escapade did appear. Never did they imagine such an exciting activity would arrive at their well trained paws.
A spaceship could be seen flying down from the heavens. It was round with millions of lights. Two dogs stuck their heads out of the window in the space ship. The one with the yellow and purple stripes smiled at Ludde. She said: “My name is Mona!” The other one was pink with white spots and said: “My name is Nedan!” Together, they sang: “We are moon dogs and we have observed you. Please come to us. We want to marry you. Kissy-Kissy!”
Well, needless to say, Ludde and Linus were, in that old turn of phrase, flabbergasted in hearing that two female dogs from the moon were interested in them as mates.
Immediately, the two ardently amorous gents rushed to Charlie. Ludde and Linus had been up all night talking about the dogs. They just had to fly to the moon. Charlie was a smart boy. They were sure that he would know how to build a rocket.
As Charlie was eating breakfast, pondering affectionately over his joghurt and flakes with strawberries, he listened to the dogs and their tale of love.
He laughed as a reply, saying that he could not possibly build a rocket. After all, he was not a scientist.
Ludde and Linus pleaded. This was the chance of a lifetime.
Well, it just so happened that he knew an astronomer that built rockets in his free time. Maybe he could help them.
Within a week, the new spaceship was standing ready in the yard of Kungshöjdsgatan 6. The dogs were ready to take off to the moon with none other than Charlie himself as a pilot. He had received a crash course in astronomic engineering that week.
Well, as Ludde and Linus landed on the moon they discovered that they could jump much higher than on Earth. Their lunar acrobatics were soon interrupted by amazing cries of love by their colourful female doggies.
“Ludde! Liiiiiiiiiiiiiinus! Ow-ow-owww-oy-oyyyoy!”
They exclaimed that they wanted to make lots of babies with them and that their own one mile long church, the moon word for this
being Schonka, would be a perfect place for matrimony.
Charlie acted as priest, his vows reading as follows: “Do you, Ludde Moulton, take this bride to be your lawfully wedded wife and promise to be nice to her and never talk back?”
“I do.”
Soon enough, the two couples were doggie husband and doggie wife. Walking out of the Schonka, they were blissful.
Unfortunately, Mona and Nedan’s old boyfriends New and Full arrived at exactly the wrong time and claimed that they wanted Mona and Nedan to themselves. Mona and Nedan refused to even look at them and said that Ludde and Linus now were their boys and no one could stop them.
A wild race through outer space began, where New and Full chased the four dogs back to a forest on Earth. Desperate for some place to hide, they received refuge in Woody Woodpecker’s hut. This bird immediately began building a tree house for the four dogs, where Charlie would live as well, and insisted on staying there until New and Full had disappeared.
The Earth dogs had bad luck. New and Full did arrive and abducted Mona and Nedan, telling them fake stories about how evil Ludde and Linus were, how boring their fur was and how much better they would treated by dogs that came from outer space.
Mona and Nedan had big fights with Ludde and Linus. This, at least, until they realized that New and Full were lying. In a spectacular rescue, New and Full were chased away and never seen from again.
However, there were other problems ahead. An evil witch named Mishawashalinga appeared, prompted by the antics of her rival Macadabus. She had travelled through time and brought some Vikings with her from that other time, who immediately threatened to eat the dogs. It took all their strength to convince the Vikings that Mishawashalinga was fooling them. They did manage to get the needed trust of the Vikings, but the witch was temporarily stronger. Before disappearing totally into the mists of time, she put a magic spell on the dogs that transported them far away.
Everyone, including the Vikings, found themselves in Africa in the middle of a crazy dance party. They were gone faster than arrived, running to the nearest city on camels and jumping onto a bus that took them to God knows where. The bus was empty, except for an old man sitting in the back. They soon discovered that this old man was none other than Bamse the bear, who had come there to save them.
Mishawashalinga was back and this time she was making them fly, hoping to transport them back to the moon in order to have New and Full win the race. The famous Swedish detective Ture Sventon served as a informer on the bus. He had been hiding under the seats. They could make everything all right again if they only closed their eyes and said: “There is no place like home!” three times in a row.
They did so. Before the bus entered the stratosphere, Mishawashalinga was gone and with her the Vikings and Ture Sventon. Bamse was a happy bear and so were the dogs.
Well, Ludde and Linus were quite tired after all these exciting adventures. They decided to enjoy nuptial, canine bliss for a bit. Nevertheless, soon enough, that old desire to explore the unknown overwhelmed them and the gang flew to New York and helped Charlie audition for Gene Kelly. Charlie’s rendition of Singing in the Rain overwhelmed Gene Kelly and would promptly see Charlie singing on Broadway.
Dogs will be dogs and so the two pals decided to travel to more unusual lands, after they returned in Sweden. They took a train from Gothenburg Central Station that seemed to lead nowhere. The train actually finally did stop somewhere in a strange land they never ever had heard of named Imitate-Me in the capital of Repeat-After-Me. The president was Monkey-Cat and his king was King Parrot. Their temporary home Hotel Royal was a place of nerve racking tension, as no one would tell them anything.
It was a very frustrating experience for the dogs. Every time they asked a question they received not the answer, but the inquiry in another form. This brought Ludde to conceive one of his more brilliant plans. One day, he uttered the tongue twister about Peter Piper picking of peck of pickled peppers. He uttered it so fast and so often that the population, if not the entire country, was on a stand still. Suddenly, they could not imitate one another any more. They had to think for themselves.
“What are we going to do?” became the main question all around town. Soon, however, that changed. The dogs were awarded the medal of honour for their contribution to their society. The land was renamed “Be-Unique” and the capital “Say-Something-Special”. The president renamed himself “Soul-Man” and the king decided now to call himself “King Humane I”. To celebrate all of this, they sang the song: “I am what I am” followed by “My Way”.
The tour that took the canines around the world was, to say the very least, unique. They came to the Blueberry-Land, where they rode on a boat made out of bread in a sea of blueberry juice. They also visited the Multi Vitamin Drink Land and had never felt so strong as when they left the country to go back to Gothenburg.
After all these wonderful adventures, it was time to go back home to Charlie’s bed. After all, when Charlie wasn’t playing the drums, it was a restful place to be.
The Moulton residence in Gothenburg was a calm position to reside in. The Snoopies probably had their own tales to tell.
They had had enough adventures for now.
Soon, they were all moving to Vienna and this was going to prove itself as the biggest adventure of them all.
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