‘Strange Ricies’

Press, 3 February 1987, Page 14

‘Strange Ricies’

By

EMMA SCADDEN,

aged 11, of Christchurch

One Saturday morning (last week), I woke up feeling like I hadn’t slept in. I looked at my alarm clock it was 6.30 a.m. I went downstairs and made myself some breakfast I poured myself a bowl full of ricies and put a piece of toast in the toaster. I poured the milk over the ricies and they started popping.

Then each rice bubble turned into a tiny person. I rubbed my eyes could I be seeing things? Surely not.

I went and had a look on the ricie packet and sure enough on the side of the packet it said this:

Corricks have made these special ricies for adults only. They have extra popping. Keep out of reach of all children.

Well it certainly didn’t say anything about these little people that pop out of your ricies when you pour the milk on. Mum definitely hadn’t kept them out of my reach.

I went back to the bowl of ricies. I looked into the bowl and by now there were thousands of little people.

What had Corricks done to their ricies? I began to

panic. What could I do? Then all of a sudden the people started shrinking. My troubles were nearly over but not quite. One little person was left.

I took him up to my bedroom and put him in a matchbox.

I carefully put the matchbox in my desk under a book. I then went downstairs to watch the Saturday morning cartoons. After the cartoons I went back up to my bedroom. But instead of the ricie leader being in the matchbox, in my desk, under the book he was sitting on the lightbulb reading a book. I said: “What are you doing here?” and “Go away.”

All of a sudden he vanished into thin air. My command had worked. I looked around me he was nowhere to be seen. I looked on my light-bulb there was a note. It said this: Dear ricie eater. I have gone back to the supermarket and hopped into another ricie packet. Enjoy eating more ricies. From — The Ricie. I read the note over again and then put it in my desk under that same book. I never never saw that ricie person again.