Fungus Mungus’s Big
Adventure
©Billy Escritt (8 years old) and ©William
May (11 years old)
Once upon a time there was a man called Fungus Mungus who wanted to
leave his job as a truck driver and become a clown but there was not a
circus in town. The only circus that was left was the Escritt Brothers
Circus. The circus was in Adelaide but he was in South America. For
Fungus Mungus to get to the circus Fungus Mungus had to get aboard a
cargo plane. He hid in the cargo bay. Once he got off the plane he knew
that he was in Antarctica. To make sure that he was in Antarctica, he
checked the ground and all he saw was pure ice. Somehow he had to get to
Adelaide and the answer was that he needed to board a ship that can
break through the ice of the Antarctic waters. To get on the ship he had
to get a job being a sailor and doing work on the ship. After weeks and
weeks of work he finally got to Adelaide and Fungus Mungus’s ship pulled
into Port Adelaide. Fungus Mungus did not know where the Escritt
Brothers Circus was but he got directed by a nice man to follow the
crowds and he will get there eventually. The crowds were all headed
towards a huge black and white Big Top in the middle of the fairground.
He entered the tent and was shocked by the amount of people that could
fit in there and he walked right up to the judge’s table and
accidentally tripped over. The Escritt Brothers thought this was so
funny that out of the lots and lots of people that wanted jobs Fungus
Mungus stood out. After the Escritt brothers stopped laughing and had
calmed down a bit they gave him a job as a clown. Fungus Mungus wanted
to be a tightrope walker so his favourite trick was juggling ten balls
while balancing on a tightrope high up in the air and then falling down
into the safety net. Fungus Mungus was the most famous clown in the
circus after only a couple of weeks because the crowd was always amazed.
Eventually Fungus Mungus taught his favourite son the ways of the clown
and his favourite trick. After fifty years of working Fungus Mungus was
an old clown and he broke his arm and could not balance on the tight
rope anymore. This made Fungus Mungus so sad he stopped being a clown.
All his friends wanted him to go back to the circus but his doctor said
that his arm was not healed properly yet, which was a relief because
Fungus Mungus could not face them yet. Fungus Mungus’s arm healed and he
went back to the circus and did all his tricks except his balancing act
at his welcome back party. Fungus Mungus loved his balancing act but he
realised he loved the circus more, lived in his caravan at the circus
for the rest of his life and he was finally happy.
