Bumptious Soup

By Lucy Camilla

Three stories suitable for children age 8-11 years.

Bumptious Soup is a slug, a curious slug who is convinced that he has special abilities not normal to the usual, everyday slug. These special abilities, he believes, have given him the power to unravel mysteries and crimes committed in the garden.

His powers of deduction would surely be the envy of any police force!

Also avaliable as an audio book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lucy Camilla
• Release date: Jan 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463309193

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BUMPTIOUS SOUP

By

Lucy Camilla

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By

Jonathan Temples

Distributed by Smashwords

Copyright Lucy Camilla 2019

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Contents

About a Slug

Bumptious Soup and the Missing Snail

Bumptious Soup and the Bone

The Case of the Dead Bee

About a Slug

After a long dry spell, so long and so dry that Bumptious Soup and almost all other slugs dug deep into the soil for cool relief from the heat above, the rain finally fell soaking into the ground.

The slugs from their hiding place in the soil slid out and Bumptious Soup, like the rest of the slugs, was eager for a change of diet; from the underground roots and shoots to lush greenery from the garden. It was also nice to soak up the moisture from the rain into his skin.

It was then, Bumptious says, that