Even with a snowball splat on the head, it's the best fun. One problem - bare bottom. Cold bare bottom. Cold bare bottom getting colder.
Miggi needs some underpants !
If he wants to carry on playing in the snow, Miggi better hurry and find some underpants. Wouldn't it be terrible if he got icicles on the behind !
But where can Miggi get some monkey underpants ? Proper monkey ones with a hole for his tail, but nice and snug all the same ?
No money !
If he can't buy some underpants, perhaps he could borrow some from his friends or just somebody that he knows. What about Mr Hippocrates from the library ? He may like to spend his spare time indoors playing with mud (even when it's snowing outside), but he dresses smart for work.
He probably has lots of pairs of underpants. Miggi asked him first ...
Far too big ! And covered in mud.
Lord
Anthony lives next door. He wears nothing but pants. A different pair
every day. Some purple, some orange. And a change of pants for popping
out to the shops for fresh supplies of dirt.
Much too small !
Why not ask Miss Muntjac, the lady who looks after the lost property at the school ? She has a big box full of all the things that children have put down and forgotten to pick up again. Or things that fell out of pockets by accident. Anything that got lost at school.
Urgggggghhhhhh ! Girl's pants !
If
none of the people that Miggi knows have got any monkey underpants,
then perhaps somebody he doesn't know might have some. What if he put
an advert up for everyone he doesn't know to see.
Oh no, he couldn't do that. Then everyone in the whole town would know about his bare bottom and come to stare at it.
Just where was Miggi going to get some underpants ? He was starting to need them really badly. His bottom was now so cold that it was making him cry. If he didn't get those pants quickly, then he was going to get icicles and he wouldn't be able to fit his bottom on the sledge anymore.
But just then he heard scrabbling noises from behind the fence ...
Miggi had cried so hard that his friend Robert had heard. He came running to find what was wrong. "Miggi, what's the matter ? All that crying". Robert guessed straight away what was stopping a monkey having fun in the snow. "Haven't you got any underpants ?" he asked. "I think I know where you can get some - quick, jump over the fence and run to our garage."
There they are ! Robert knew the underpants had belonged to his granddad. And he knew that his granddad was so old that he could remember the dinosaurs, back in the days when people were more like monkeys, with fur and tails. Granddad hadn't got a tail anymore, but perhaps he did have one in the olden days. And that's why Robert hoped he had thrown out the underpants - because they had a hole where the tail should go and weren't any use to granddad these days.
Yes ! Miggi has found his underpants ! Now his bottom won't get icicles - it won't even get chilly, because his bottom will be snug inside underpants.
Robert had to help Miggi fit his tail through the hole in the underpants. But as soon as that had been sorted out, Miggi dashed back out into the snow to have some more fun.
