Page 17 - How Sophie Grumble Guts Got Her Name

One morning (very early) there was a knock at the door and
Sophie was picked up and popped in a travel carrier. What’s

happening now, she wondered? Maybe I’m going home to Ethel.

Off they went in the car for what seemed a very long time and
when the car stopped, and she was taken out - she was in

another very strange, very noisy and very frightening place. Her
and her carrier were placed on a big trolley with lots of bags of

various shapes and sizes.

Sophie was terrified
and shook

uncontrollably while

panting with fear.

She was loaded into a big
space with all the bags

and after some time

there, an enormous noise

erupted and she felt a
very strange sensation as

though she were being

lifted from the ground
(which in fact she was -

in an aeroplane).

It seemed as though
the sensation went After what seemed an

on for ever and eternity, the noise and more
strange sensations stopped,
Sophie huddled into
and she was unloaded onto
the smallest ball she

could make herself another trolley and taken
in the furthest into a building She heard a

corner of the carry voice in the room say: I’m
crate. here to pick up Sophie.

Goodness me, what now she
. thought?