A
voice outside Mack's window whispered softly, "Mack?" but
the little mouse slept on.
The voice tried again, a little louder
this time, "Mack!"
Again,
Mack didn't wake up. In fact, he slept on and on. And on and on and
on until finally the voice outside shook him awake.
"MACK!"
trumpeted the voice.
Mack's
eyes opened wide.
He
jumped out of his bed to go find the voice that had woken him up.
Mack
ran right behind his mother busy making breakfast in the kitchen.
"It
wasn't her voice that woke me up," thought Mack, and quickly
went out the back door to the garden.
Banjo
smiled and said to Mack, "Good morning. Do you want to go get
some ice cream?"
"Of
course!" said Mack. "Some delicious cheese ice cream sounds
great! What flavour of ice cream will you have, Banjo?"
"Peanut.
I always have peanut ice cream.That's my favourite. Let's go."
And the friends set off to find their ice cream.
On
the way, Mack decided to play a trick on his friend, and he went
behind a tree to hide.
Banjo
didn't notice his friend had stopped, and walked on in front of the
tree.
Mack
watched from behind the tree as a brown bag blew in front of Banjo,
and Banjo followed the bag thinking that it was his friend Mack the
Mouse.
Soon
the wind lifted the bag up higher in the air, and Banjo watched what
he thought was Mack fly off into the sky. "I don't think that's
Mack," he said.
"But
if that's not Mack, where did he go?" wondered Banjo.
Just
then Banjo felt something pull his tail. He turned to see Mack
smiling behind him.
"Why
were you following that bag?" asked Mack.
"I
thought it was you!" said Banjo. "Can we get that ice cream
now?" he asked.
Mack
said okay, and the friends set off again with Mack in front and Banjo
following behind.
Banjo
finally came to a stop in front of a brown furry dog that he thought
was Mack. "Oh good!" Banjo exclaimed, "I thought I had
lost you again!"
The
brown furry dog didn't answer. Banjo thought Mack was being rude by
not replying.
Banjo
thought Mack was being even more rude when he walked away from him.
His
feelings were hurt until he saw another brown furry animal walking
towards him.
"Mack?"
he asked.
"Banjo,
what happened? Why didn't you follow me?" asked Mack.
"I
guess I didn't see you," answered Banjo, looking confused.
"I
think you need to see an eye doctor. Hold my tail this time,"
said Mack.
Banjo
followed Mack into the eye doctor's office where Mack explained to
the doctor what had happened that day.
The
eye doctor said he could see Banjo right away, and Mack smiled at
Banjo and told him they would go get ice cream as soon as he was
finished.
The
doctor told Banjo to look at the poster on the walls and read the
letters out loud.
Banjo
looked at the poster, but he couldn't see the letters very well at
all.
Banjo
squinted a little bit, and then he squinted really hard to try and
read the letters, but he couldn't get past the very first line.
This
made Banjo very sad and he looked down at the floor.
But the doctor told him not to worry, he had just the thing for Banjo. He put a pair of glasses over Banjo's eyes, hooking them behind his large elephant ears.
Banjo's face lit up, and his eyes opened wide. He could see!
Banjo
called out, "Mack! I can see!" Banjo slipped the glasses
off to compare the difference. Everything went blurry.
He
then put the glasses back on and could see everything clearly.
"Hooray!"
shouted Mack. "Now let's go get that ice cream!"
"Peanut
ice cream for me, Mack. It's my favourite flavour," said Banjo.
"And
cheese ice cream for me, Banjo. I can't wait!" said Mack. And
the friends set off once more to find their ice cream, Banjo happily
looking around at Boomtown for the first time with his new glasses.
