Chapter 19

Chapter 19 My phone rang. "Flyclap! Get down here! Statue's ready!" yelled the very familiar, very rude voice of President Horse G. Horse. "My name is—," I began. But he had already hung up. Nina pushed me down to the Capitol Building.

There was the enormous statue of President Horse G. Horse, and perched on its back was an even taller statue covered with an enormous tarp. The whole area was packed with turkey news reporters, donkey congressmen, sheep sculptors, duck Secret Service agents, a sloth eating a hot dog, and nine geese in their underwear. (These were the Supreme Court Justices. You may recall that their Robe Depository had been destroyed.) Thousands and thousands of other animal citizens were there, too. Nina pushed me up to the Capitol steps, where the President and Vanessa Cowcow were waiting.

"Hurry! Hurry! The alien space fly is about to attack the White House! That's where I live!" "OK... unveil the sculpture!" shouted Vanessa Cowcow, and a team of oxen began pulling on the ropes attached to the tarp. Finally it fell free, and the world's most amazingly beautiful statue was revealed. It was me looking extremely brave... and, of course, handsome. But would it work? Would it really scare away the giant alien space fly? A loud roaring buzz gave us our answer! The mighty insect was zooming in close to get a good look! Then the giant alien space fly made a thunderous hacking and gagging sound.

Then it turned skyward and zoomed away... up, up, up through the atmosphere and into space... leaving our planet in peace forever.