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1987 School and Library Edition

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Many, Margaret.

The

terrible topsy-turvy, tissy-tossy tangle.

spy, Iris La Bonga sets out to an inventor's mysterious potion. Inventors— Fiction. 2. Spies— Fiction]

Summary: The famous steal [1. I.

Smillie-McHoull, Vicki,

PZ7.M2773Te 1987 ISBN 0-516-08987-0

ill.

II.

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Created and Designed by

Title.

87-5104

Wendy

Pye, Ltd.

1986 Story by Margaret Mahy 1986 Illustrations by Vicki Smillie-McHoull reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87

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\ Ft Wayne, Indiana Whisker was a famous inventor. Day and night, she was busy Lily

with her inventing.

One

day,

she invented a mysterious potion that

made

"What

things whizz and

fizz.

does it do?" asked her twin brother Lionel Whisker, the famous spaghetti cook. else

"It whizzes and fizzes," Lily said.

"That's enough to go on with." She put a cross on the label of the bottle.

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They did not know that Iris La Bonga,

the famous spy,

was

open window

listening at the

with her spy's hearing trumpet.

"Aha!" "I must as

said Iris. steal this

mysterious potion

soon as possible."

She ran off to her spy's van to put on a clever disguise.

Lionel Whisker said to his "It's

all

sister,

very well to invent mysterious potions

new tomato

but

why

We

are having spaghetti for lunch."

"We

don't you invent a

sauce?

always have spaghetti," complained Lily,

but she loved inventing. In half an hour she had invented a completely new tomato sauce. She put a letter 'T' on the label.

"Here's that tomato sauce you wanted," Lily said to Lionel.

Lionel came to get the sauce. "Terrific!" he said, picking

up the wrong

He took the wrong bottle into He emptied the wrong bottle

the kitchen.

into his best, big, blue pot of spaghetti.

"My he

X

word, what a whizzing and fizzing!"

said, frowning.

bottle

I

Just then there

Lionel opened

was

a

knock

at the door.

it.

There was Iris La Bonga,the famous spy. She was disguised as a dear little girl. "T> I've lost

my

mother!"

she said, pretending to cry,

"What "Come I

a dear little girl!" said Lionel.

into the kitchen.

will ring the Society for

Finding Lost Mothers."

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Iris

was

"What's

left

alone in the kitchen.

this I

see?"

muttered the wicked Iris. "A bottle with a cross on

What As

luck!

I'll

take

it

it!

now."

put out her hand, something whizzed and fizzed. Something bumped in the big blue pot,

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Iris

What's

in that

pot?" wondered

Iris.

Bumpity, bump, bump, bump, went the lid of the big blue pot, as though something was trying to get

Iris just

had

to

have a look.

Spies are like that.

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out,

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Iris

opened the pot

Out leaped

a great , big

,

terrible

topsy-turvy, tissy-tossy tangle.

The

spaghetti had

come

alive.

looked like white spiders wrestling. It looked like twenty octopuses dancing on top of one another. It

"What it

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a dear

little

girl!"

cried in a slippery voice.

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Iris

screamed.

She ran as fast as she could back to her spy's van.

The

terrible topsy-turvy, tissy-tossy tangle

went running It

leaped

When

after her.

up on

Iris

the roof of the van.

La Bonga drove

off

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went with

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her.

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Lionel

came out

into the kitchen

"What's this?" he cried. "That dear little girl has wolfed

down

all

my

spaghetti

and run away. Well, this I

is

the last time

help a dear litde

who

girl

has lost her mother."

Then Lionel said to Lily, "The spaghetti has gone. We'll have to eat fish and chips instead."

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Lily

Whisker went on with her inventing,

Much to she won for a

her surprise, a great big science

new

sort of

award

tomato sauce.

That made her even more famous.

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As

for Iris

she

is

still

from the

And

it

La Bonga, trying to get

away

terrible topsy-turvy, tissy-tossy tangle.

is still

tumbling

after her.

Serves her right

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