For the city children Kerri and Doug, visiting the countryside and sitting around a campfire was just a dream. In their city there were no exciting wild animals, and the city lights obscured the stars in the night sky.
Now that they were camping in the countryside with their parents, the sky had no limit and the night was very dark. The stars were shining brightly, and tiny creepy crawlies scuttled around in the darkness as Kerri and Doug huddled around the campfire.
The marshmallows tasted delicious to Kerri and Doug. They had never had gooey and delicious marshmallows cooked over a campfire. The campfire smelled all smoky, like usual.
It was getting dark and the fire was going low. Kerri and Doug put their hands over the flames to feel the heat before they went into the tent for bed.
When they were going to bed, Kerri said, “I heard something!”
Doug said, “I’ll bet it was just your imagination.”
But Kerri said, “No, I really heard something! I’m going out to see what it was.”
Doug had to follow her. She couldn’t be out there in the dark, dark night! When he stepped outside, he could barely see anything. It was only darkness.
“I can’t see anything!” said Kerri, right next to him.
When Doug’s eyes adjusted to the gloom, he saw the sparkling stars and the rustling tree branches. Then he saw, on one of the tree branches, a chocolate colored, feathery owl.
“Whoo! Whoo!” it said loudly.
“Ouch!” said Kerri as she clapped her hands over her ears.
“See?” Doug said. “It was only an owl.”
“Oh!” said Kerri. “Let’s go back to bed.”
They went back to bed. When Kerri and Doug fell asleep, they dreamed whole night and morning about of the adventure they had had. When they went back to the noisy city, they never forgot the noisy, noisy owl.
The End