12 Oops!

Chapter 12 OOPS! meep… "Poop!" said Thudd. He pointed to a monster brown mound beside the Umbubble. "Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "It's the Himalayas of doo-doo! The Mount Everest of poop!" "Now you've done it, mister!" yelled Mrs. Scuttle. "Pooping on the floor! Bad dog! I've a mind to send you to the animal shelter. You won't be seeing much of that Judy girl you like so much!" "Oh no!" said Judy. "I love Harley! We've got to rescue him!" "I guess we've got to rescue ourselves first," Andrew said.

Suddenly the light in the bathroom seemed to flicker. Andrew looked up. At first he thought the ceiling was falling, but then he realized what was happening. "Uh-oh!" he said. "Mrs. Scuttle's got toilet paper and she's coming at us!" In the next second, the toilet paper plopped down over them and swooped them—and the

poop mountain—off the ground. The sticky Umbubble was stuck to the bottom of the toilet paper. They were going up, up, up! Andrew watched the tiles of the bathroom floor get farther and farther away. Clunk! "You know what that sound is?" asked Judy. "Um, no," said Andrew. "It's the lid of the toilet clunking against the tank," said Judy. "Mrs. Scuttle is getting ready to flush us!" "Uh-oh!" said Andrew. meep… "If Umbubble get flushed, end up in big cement tank deep, deep underground," said Thudd. "I know," said Judy. "I used to make plumbing for my dollhouses when I was a little kid." Now they were right above the toilet bowl! Mrs. Scuttle's hand was reaching for the handle of the toilet!

"Cheese Louise!" said Judy. "This is the worst thing ever!" "At least we're inside the Umbubble," said Andrew. "We've got plenty of air, so we won't drown if we get flushed." "It's not if we get flushed," said Judy. "We're going to get flushed. In about one second!" She pulled the empty pen tube out of the wall of the Umbubble and put it back in her pocket. The Umbubble sealed itself up. "We don't want any leaks!" she said. Crrrunk! Mrs. Scuttle pulled down the handle of the toilet! A whirlpool of water churned below. meep… "What is red and white on outside, gray on inside?" asked Thudd. "Campbell's Cream of Elephant soup! Hee hee!" Oh no! thought Andrew, remembering Uncle Al's warning about elephant jokes.

Before anyone could say another word, the toilet paper, the Umbubble, and the poop were zooming toward the whirlpool below!