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The Trouble With Trolls

Wait ! the troll said..... As he jumped in front of him. You have the smell of humans on you. Therefore, I can not let you pass thru. The mouse said, but I have just what you need. The troll looked him up and down, and ask. Now just what would that be? What is it that you think you have? " That I want", asks the troll. The mouse always heard that trolls were really very stupid. The mouse replied...... But you let the others pass. I know this because I saw it. Troll answered, yes, but, that has nothing to do with you. And if you displease me, I will eat you on this day. The mouse thought to himself....... Magic always works, but, only when you think you haven't been tricked. Troll replied, well I'm waiting, to cook you in my dinner pot. Within my cave of cold gray stone as I chew on your bones. Though I do prefer the taste of human little girls, and boys. The mouse got that gleam in his eye, "as he replied". When I was out and about this very morning I saw the valley. Where all the human girls and boys come out to play. There's even some that hang out in a basket all day. The troll's eyes got very big, as he asks", where is this valley? The mouse said, with a big grin, why", it's just back over that hill. The troll said, if you are lying to me, I will eat you when I get back. And he walked off over that hill, as he said, wait for me here. The mouse waited till the troll was far enough away. So he could be on his way, the mouse thought to himself. There really may be a valley where human children play. But not over that hill, maybe over another hill, but not there. At leastways not anywhere near that hungry old troll. As the mouse went on his way, he thought...... The trouble with trolls is, " they're really very stupid". 4/ 27/ 2012 pm

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Darren White

Date: 7/14/2017 2:08:00 AM

Found it :) It is really a very fun tale, and yeah.... they're really very stupid!

Duke Beaufort

Date: 8/12/2015 8:02:00 PM

Well here I am at your suggestion. There are a lot of funny things here. The mouse does well. In the end, we may do well also if we are smart enough to rely on our own experience and seeing how things really fit together. Stories are wonderful. I am going to use the abbreviation BS for Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders is not BS! I hope you will watch him on youtube. He had a great interview on face the nation this past Sunday.

Jerry T Curtis

Date: 4/17/2014 6:48:00 PM

This actually should be a children's book, I would love to see it illustrated. Great work, Deb

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 8/5/2013 6:51:00 PM

Thanks for directing me to this one. This was a fun story!

Michelle Mac Donald

Date: 6/24/2013 6:06:00 PM

A cute and fun write, Debbie! Loved reading this....seems like the trolls are often outwitted. As you wrote, "they're really very stupid".:) Makes me think of 'Billy Goat Gruff' and Jan Brett's own "Trouble with trolls'. I've always found these fantastical creatures so very amusing to read about. Very clever mouse here, depicted by the very clever you!! I needed to read something fun on this rainy day...thank you! Mikki

Debbie Duncan
Date: 6/24/2013 6:55:00 PM

Thank you Mikki ;}

Carol Eastman

Date: 6/17/2013 11:45:00 AM

I love Troll poems... and Dragons... That's what I write about... Try ' "Kiss the Rain" and "Enlightenment of the Kung Poo Master" Check a few out. Also "Trolls and the IRS".

Debbie Duncan
Date: 6/17/2013 12:54:00 PM

Thank you,,,, I will read those poems ;}

Sara Kendrick

Date: 6/2/2013 4:25:00 AM

Wild imagination within these lines..Interesting story plot..Thanks for stopping by..I am glad that I chose this one to read today...Sara

Don Johnson

Date: 5/30/2013 5:18:00 PM

a little troll i said to she, that is your friend, at work she be, and then the dollars missing went, and down the shop she went and spent, ole johnson said it, see, the nursing home cast her free, and there was no dissent, cept the Troll, she wanted a wee....

Debbie Duncan
Date: 5/30/2013 10:39:00 PM

hi Don ;}

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/30/2013 3:17:00 PM

hahaha. that was a very good one!! My favorite in your troll series!!

Debbie Duncan
Date: 5/30/2013 4:31:00 PM

thank you Andrea ;}

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/30/2013 3:16:00 PM

that is so cool if you can write up to six poems a day. I have so rarely been able to do that. gosh. well, let me read this one now.

Debbie Duncan
Date: 5/30/2013 4:31:00 PM

I say I write them that doesn't mean I like them ;}

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 5/30/2013 1:24:00 PM

- Adorable .... I love such stories, Debbie - You have written it so well ... we have a lot of trolls in Norway, kind and dangerous. - Thanks for your good story, nice to read. - oxox / / Anne-Lise :)

Anne-Lise Andresen
Date: 5/30/2013 11:34:00 PM

- Where is your grandmother born in Norway? - You are welcome, Debbie !

Debbie Duncan
Date: 5/30/2013 4:33:00 PM

Thank you Anne, I really want to come to Norway . To see where my grand mama was born ;} xo's

Richard D Seal

Date: 5/30/2013 10:03:00 AM

Errrrr I couldn't find any boys or girl over der hill Debbie, so I'll have to eat you lol. Very good and imaginative write, love it. Take care, Richard

Debbie Duncan
Date: 5/30/2013 4:26:00 PM

Thank you Richard ;}