After eating the apple, Cheeseburger continued on his way. At the third city, he washed the last little golden seed in a bucket of water and threw it over his shoulder. Instantly a magic carpet appeared hovering over where the seed had landed.
"Oh my goodness," thought Cheeseburger.
He jumped on to the magic carpet thinking, "This should take me somewhere to find food for Egypt," and the magic carpet took him all the way to the next city.
As they flew, the magic carpet said, "Aren't I the best camel you ever met?"
"You are not a camel, you are a magic carpet," laughed Cheeseburger.
"Oh yes I am," said the magic carpet. "My name is Camellio, the Camel."
"I'd say you are Camellio the Carpet."
"OK, mouse, look I have humps drawn on me. Does that convince you?'
"Not necessarily. They are only drawn on."
When he got to the city he was amazed by the beautiful architecture, lovely arches and golden sculptures of important city officials made into the walls of the buildings, and silver temples. It was very busy and he could hear donkey hooves, carts full of meat pulled by camels, dogs barking, and the sounds of mousey voices squeaking about prices in the busy marketplace.
He used his money to buy apples, tomatoes, bread, corn, and beans. He flew home on his magic carpet and he gave food to all the families of Egypt, and some to the Pharaoh too.
The Pharaoh, Squeaky, was impressed and gave Cheeseburger armor of gold and let him have a castle and lots of land.
Cheeseburger married a Princess mouse, Stilltaenia with hair as black as a raven's wing and lived happily ever after with their 15 baby mice.
When David was about your age, we read "Redwall" by Brian Jacques. There are also movies. This is one of our favorite series of books. I highly recommend it. Your story reminded me, only because the main character is a mouse, just like Redwall.
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