Chapter 18

Chapter 18 The sloth swung into the air, did a perfect back flip, landed on MY skateboard, and zoomed out the exit! Nina, the pack of show dogs, the judges, the audience members, and I raced out to the street after him. The sloth dodged cars, trucks, trolleys, and a very large statue of President Horse G. Horse, and so did we. Then we saw President Horse himself. "There goes the thief who stole your limo!" I shouted. So the president started galloping along with us. Nina and I were almost run down by a pickup truck going the other way. I turned to yell at the driver and saw it was Mimi Kiwi... who was already yelling at us! "There goes the thief who stole your garden!" I shouted.

Mimi Kiwi screeched into a tight U-turn, gunned the engine, and joined the chase. We passed the art museum, where Vanessa Cowcow and Lulu Emu were about to unveil a statue called The Ice Cream Truck Made out of Cheese. "There goes the thief who stole The Sistine Chapstick!" I shouted. They both hopped into The Ice Cream Truck Made out of Cheese and joined the chase.

Then we passed Koko Dodo's Cookie Shop, where twenty-three scientific pigs were mad that Koko Dodo had run out of gourmet cookie sprinkles. "There goes the thief who stole the gourmet cookie sprinkles!" I shouted.

"The chocolate ones or the rainbow ones?" shouted back twenty-three pigs and one dodo. "ALL OF THEM!"

The pigs hopped onto twenty-three tricycles, and Koko Dodo put on her jetpack, and they all joined the chase. As we zoomed through downtown, I saw Penguini hanging a CLOSED FOREVER sign on his food truck!

"There goes the thief who stole your pots, pans, refrigerator, and broken automatic pasta maker!" I shouted. Penguini leapt into the food truck, gunned the engine, and joined the chase! We passed a construction site. I saw my girlfriend, Wanda, busy at her new job, driving a high-speed bulldozer. "Wanda! Darling! There goes the thief who kidnapped William!"