The dance

"HEY, GUYS!" shouted a gull, flying in to greet his friends. "Guess what? I've been learning how to dance!"



"Dance?" asked his friends. "What do you mean? How?"

"Watch this!" said the gull. He was terrifically excited.



"First you go like this!" he said. "And then you go like this!"



His friends watched carefully. "Brilliant! How did you do that?" asked one.

"Watch my feet," said the gull, proudly. "I'll teach you."



"Like this!"

They were doing the first step together when there was a shout from across the river.



"THAT'S THE STUPIDEST DANCE I HAVE EVER SEEN!" yelled a cormorant, so loudly that the heron's head exploded.



It was terrible.



"Cor blimey!" said the cormorant. "Sorry, mate. I got carried away."

"Idiot!" mumbled the heron.

"Er, can I do anything to help?" asked the cormorant.

"NO," said the heron. "You've done enough already. I'll fix it myself."



And to everybody's amazement, he did.



The result wasn't QUITE perfect, but we all assured him that nobody would notice.



The gulls, slightly embarrassed, decided that dancing was not quite such a good idea after all.