Billy Likes to Watch TV

3.7

“Did you see the acrobats on TV yesterday?” said Billy.

“Yes, I liked them very much; especially when they all stood on each other’s shoulders,” said Paul.

“Well, I don’t think that is very difficult,” said Billy. “I can do that.”

“Of course you can’t,” said Paul. “It’s very difficult.”

“We shall see,” said Billy, and the two boys went into the garden.

But Paul was right — Billy could not even get on to his shoulders. Then he decided to climb the apple tree and low himself on to Paul’s shoulders. But he could not do that, he fell down on his father’s finest tulips and broke four of them.

Paul decided to help his friend.

“Haven’t you got some tulips in those artificial flowers in your room?” he said. “Let us cut off these broken tulips and put artificial ones in their place.”

Some time later Billy’s father looked out of the window and said:

“Most of the tulips are only in bud, but four of them have already bloomed.” And he went out to look at these wonderful flowers.

A moment later he came back to look for Billy, but he couldn’t find his son. Billy was trying another trick he had seen on TV. In this trick a girl got into a chest and vanished into thin air.

“I hope this trick works better than the last one,” he thought when he was in the chest.

But it did not work better. Billy was still in the chest when his father opened it and asked him to explain those tulips which bloomed so quickly.