DUCK
IN A
TRUCK
IN THE
MUCK
There was a duck.
His name was Chuck.
Chuck the Duck
drove an ice-cream truck.
But one wet day Chuck’s
truck got stuck.
‘What bad luck,’
said Chuck the Duck.
‘My ice-cream truck
is stuck in muck.’
But just then
along came
his friend Buck
in his brand-new
shiny
muck-sucking
truck!
‘Hey, Buck,’ said Chuck,
‘my truck is stuck. My truck is stuck
in all this muck.’
‘You’re in luck, Chuck,’
said Buck the Duck.
‘I can get your truck unstuck.
I can suck up all the muck
with the muck-sucker-upper
on my muck-sucking truck!’
‘Thank you, thank you, Buck,’
said Chuck.
‘What are friends for?’
said Buck to Chuck.
Buck’s
muck-sucker-upper
began to suck.
It sucked
and sucked
and sucked
and sucked until all the muck
had been
sucked up.
‘Hooray!’ cried Chuck
as he ran to his truck.
‘Get back, Chuck!’
yelled Buck the Duck.
‘I haven’t yet shut my muck-sucker up.’
But it was too late
for Chuck the Duck—
he got sucked up into the truck.
And then the muck-sucker
sucked up Buck!
The muck-sucker-upper just
kept on sucking.
It sucked
and sucked
and sucked
and sucked …
until Buck the Duck’s
brand-new truck
got too full and
it
blew
Up!
Out flew Chuck.
Out flew all the sucked-up muck.
‘Boo-hoo,’ cried Buck.
‘My brand-new truck!
My brand-new shiny
truck blew up!’
‘Don’t cry, Buck,’
said the kind duck Chuck.
‘We can share my
ice-cream truck!’
‘Do you mean it, Chuck?’
said Buck.
‘What are friends for?’
said Chuck to Buck.
So Buck hopped up
with Chuck the Duck
and they drove off together
in their ice-cream truck.