BR09: SIMON AND THE SPY

"Do you know this man?" (p1)

Simon Simple is at the station. He is going on a train. There is a lot of policemen. They are all working very hard because they are finding a spy. Simon looks at the newepaper. 'Do you know this man? He is a spy! Find him! Stop him! Catch him!' Simon looks at the people in the station. He can not see any spies. Simon's train goes at 11:00 and it is 10:57 now. So he runs to the train. There is an old woman with an umbrella near Simon. She is walking very fast. The old woman's bag hits Simon's foot. He falls and his bag opens. Old woman falls and her bag opens, too. A letter falls out. Simon puts his things into his bag and he puts the letter into his bag, too. He doesn't see it. He closes his bag and runs to the train. Simon sits down in the seat beside a beautiful girl. The old woman is on the train, too. She is looking at his bag. She wants the letter. Simon likes the girl and the girl likes him, too. Simon takes his bag and goes to the restaurant to bring a cup of cofee for the girl. The old woman is waiting for him. Simon does not see her. The train is going fast. Simon falls and the old woman falls, too. He looks at her shoes and her face. He thinks that they're not woman's shoes. Simon buys the coffee and goes back to the girl. The train stops and Simon and the girl are going on a boat now. They sit near the water and wait. The boat is coming. "What is your name?" Simon asks. "Samantha," the girl says. They are talking. They don't see the old woman. "Look out!" a man shouts. "There's a lorry!" Simon and Samantha look. They jump back and the old woman jumps back, too. Simon sees her trousers. "They're not women's trousers," Simon thinks. Simon and Samantha get on the boat. Simon opens his bag and takes his lunch out. He takes the letter out, too. The old woman is behind them. They don't see her. The boat is going fast now. The wind is strong. The letter flies along the boat. He thinks that it is his boat ticket. He runs and the old woman runs, too. "Woof!" A dog is running very fast and catch the paper in his mouth. Samantha catches the dog. Simon and the old woman run to Samantha. "That is not my ticket," he says. "No," the old woman says. "It's my letter." The dog likes Simon and Samantha but he doesn't like the old woman. So he takes her coat in his mouth and pull it. The coat falls to the ground. The wind takes the old woman's hair. Simon and Samantha look at the old woman. It is not old woman. It is a man! "The spy!" Simon says. Police come here. Police catch the man. They find a letter. But it is in the dog.
There are many policemen in every pictures. It is strange that Simon didn't notice a old woman is a man. Simon looked at the man's leg hair.

Elizabeth Laird(1998).Simon and the spy. Penguin readers