The Rainbow Machine

The Rainbow Machine

It was raining, but the sun was shining at thesame time. The children looked up and saw arainbow across the sky. “ I wonder where the rainbow begins?” asked WWilf, “ and where it ends?”

In a place far away, there was a lorry. It wasa very big lorry because on the back was a verybig machine. The machine made rainbows andwas called The Rainbow Machine. There are seven colours in the rainbow. It tookseven people to look after the rainbow machine. They cleaned it and polished it and they madesure it worked properly.

The rainbow machine had to be ready at anytime. Sometimes weeks and weeks went by and arainbow was not needed. But when the call came, the rainbow makers had to work fast. Off they went in the lorry. While it was goingalong, the rainbow makers got the machine ready. Then, one. . . two. . . three. . . Go! They pressed abutton and the rainbow shot out of the machine.

When there was a rainbow, everyone stoppedto look at it, Children ran to their mums or dadsand said, “ What a beautiful rainbow! ” Sometimes the rainbow was very bright butsometimes it was quite pale. Often the childrenran towards it. They wanted to find the end of it, and play in all the colours, But, of course, theynever could.

One of the rainbow makers was a young mancalled Fred. He was new and he was learning tobe a rainbow maker. One day, the other rainbowmakers said, “ Look after the lorry, Fred. We won'tbe long. ” The lorry was on a double yellow line. Fredsaw a traffic warden. “ Oh no! ” said Fred. “ I must move the rainbowmachine. ” So he climbed into the driver's cab and droveaway.