Little Miss Stubborn and the Gobi
Sha Tin Junior School, Zoe Ying, Fiction: Group 2
L
ittle Miss Stubborn was very stubborn. Once she’d made up her mind, there was not
changing it.
One morning, little Miss Stubborn decided to go to the Gobi desert for a holiday. Of
course, when she made her mind up there was no changing it.
So she set off on her trip. She came to a crossroad and decided to go left. A Gobi bear came
by. “Don’t go left! You’ll be fried!” he cried. “NONSENSE!” snorted little Miss Stubborn. “I can go
where I want!”
So leaving the bear saying “NO” and “Don’t” little Miss Stubborn continued on her journey.
But the bear was right. The sun shone down, right on little Miss Stubborn, giving her an
enormous suntan.
Evening came and a sleepy Wild Bactrian camel mumbled “here’s a tip. Find somewhere warm
to stay. The Gobi is very cold at night.” “BAH! How can a desert be cold?” muttered little Miss
Stubborn. And she scuttled away without another sound.
But the camel was right. As the moon lit up the sky, little Miss Stubborn shivered. And
sneezed. “It’s not a bit cold.” She muttered. ACHOO!
The next morning, she met a Gobi rattler “SSSS. Don’t go right, a sandstorm is about to
happen there” hissed the snake. “Humpf! I can decide myself.” she shot back. She stalked off.
Then the sandstorm began. Wind howled into her ears and dust blew in her eyes, so she
couldn’t see. She collapsed in the sand, unconscious.
She woke up the next morning, sunlight streaming into her eyes. She saw the face of a nomad
looking down at her.
“Sain baina,” said the nomad. “We are Mongolian people. There are our Yurts (pronounced
Ger) But little Miss Stubborn was not listening. She had rudely raided the egg supply and was
cooking a giant omelet for herself. She was eating it, sneezing between bites.
With a ferocious “YAAAAH!” the rest of the villagers entered the yurt and they were very
surprised when they saw little Miss Stubborn eating her omelet. Achoo!
“You’ve got a cold,” the chief grumbled. Miss Stubborn answered, “no I -Achoo! Hav-choo! Ent!”
“We do not have the immunity to fight such disease. You must leave our village at once!”
Without hesitation and halfway through one of her bites they scurried her out of the yurt.
You can see how Stubborn little Miss Stubborn is, can’t you? And she sure learned that being
stubborn doesn’t make friends (and leaves you with an empty tummy) achoo!
