Spike+Meets+Frownie

Spike Meets Frownie

When Spike first met Frownie, Frownie had no eyes. He just wandered around bumping into things.

“Hi,” said Spike, “Nice to see you.”

Spike thought Frownie was a colourful sort of monkey with no tail.

Frownie explained that he was a stuffed toy, made by Mr du’s daughter, Rosa. He told Spike that he had been put aside unfinished and had been forgotten about. He had no eyes just a turn down mouth and _____ nose.

Spike felt sorry for Frownie, who would never get to see a beautiful yellow banana even if it was right in front of his nose. Spike thought and thought. At last he got an idea. He went over to his bag and pulled out all his clothes and spread them over the floor. Eventually he saw what he was looking for, a shirt with an extra button at the bottom.

Spike took some scissors from the table and cut the button off the shirt. He asked Frownie to lie down on a cushion and placed the button on his face where one eye should be. He then opened the cupboard under the sink and looked around until he found a needle and thread. He threaded the needle and sewed the button onto Frownie’s face.

Frownie jumped up as soon as it was done. He was so excited, he ran around the room shouting, without once bumping into any of the furniture.

“I can see you. I can see you,” he screamed.

Spike wanted to put another button eye on his face, but Frownie refused to let him cut any more buttons off his clothes. He said that he could see perfectly well with one eye. Spike finally persuaded Frownie to let him sew a cross where the other eye should be so his face would look a bit more balanced in the way that people expected a face to be.

Frownie is really a very happy stuffed toy. If he looks a bit sad that’s just the the way his face turned out to be.