Jack in a Box is the first episode in series 2 of Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids.
Characters[]
- The Honourable Jack de Laurney de Havilland de Trow
- Lord de Trow
- Lady de Trow
- Rosie de Trow
- Mr. Twig-Tailor
- The Butler
Plot[]
Jack was a boy who never stopped talking no matter what. Even when others were trying to speak, he would interrupt them in the middle of their sentences and spout a load of nonsense about anything that popped into his head.
On his little sister Rosie’s birthday however, their parents hired a ventriloquist by the name of Mr. Twig-Tailor. This man saw straight away what an incessant chatterbox Jack was, and asked Rosie and her party guests to wait outside while Jack helped him set up his act.
Once alone, Jack began to babble on and on again, trying to get Mr. Twig-Tailor to tell him the secrets of his show. Once the man brought out a ventriloquist dummy, Jack grabbed the puppet up, and much to his surprise the thing grabbed him back! It then tried to warn Jack to run while he still had the chance, but Mr. Twig-Tailor quickly swept the dummy up and stuck it back in its box. He then promised Jack that if he came to his joke shop in Great Pudden the next day and kept quiet for just one minute, he would reveal all of his secrets.
Sure enough, Jack arrived at his shop the following morning chattering away as usual, and got a terrible fright when Mr. Twig-Tailor stuffed Jack in a dummy’s box and turned him into one of his mannequins!
Later, poor Rosie was so distraught that her brother had disappeared, Lord de Trow bought her a dummy that he had seen in the window of a joke shop over in Great Pudden. The family all agreed that the doll bore a striking resemblance to the missing boy, except for the zip which had been sewn across its mouth . . .
Moral[]
- The moral of this story is “be polite and let others have their say.”
Trivia[]
- In the opening segment, the boy is given a box of worms to snack on by Uncle Grizzly.
- The house owned by the de Trows is identical to that occupied by the Crumpdumps in another series 2 episode, An Elephant Never Forgets.
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