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Arie was the ONLY boy with red hair at the Montreal United Talmud Torah’s Elementary School. I stayed at his house when I told stories at the school in January of 2005 after some nut case had firebombed their library.
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ARIE’S HAIR
“Arie” said Alex “Your red hair is so neat! Your mommy does not have red hair. Your daddy does not have red hair. You are the only boy in the whole school with red hair! What is the secret? How did you get red hair?
“Well” said Arie “It really IS a secret and I am NOT supposed to tell anyone, but I will tell you because you are my best friend. I eat lots of tomatoes, lots of very red tomatoes, 10 very big red tomatoes for breakfast.”
“Neat,” said Alex.
The next morning Alex ate 10 very big red tomatoes for breakfast:
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and ran to the bathroom and looked at his hair in the mirror. His hair was still black.
Alex ran to Arie’s house and yelled
“Look at my HAIR Arie!”
“It is still BLACK Arie!”
“What is GOING ON Arie!”
“What is GOING ON!”
“OH!” said Arie “I forgot about the ketchup. How could I forget about the ketchup? You have to drink a large bottle of very red ketchup after you eat the tomatoes.”
“Right” said Alex “That makes a lot of sense. I should have thought of that.”
So Alex went home and ate 10 big, very red tomatoes:
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and drank a large bottle of very red ketchup:
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And was almost sick — GWACKKH
Then Alex ran to a mirror and looked at his hair. It was still black.
He ran to Arie’s house and yelled
“Look at my HAIR Arie!”
“It is still BLACK Arie!”
“What is GOING ON Arie!”
“What is GOING ON!”
“Let me think” said Arie “OH! I forgot the most important thing! After the tomatoes and ketchup, you have to drink a bottle of ‘Very Red, Very Hot, Mexican, Tabasco Pepper Sauce’. It sets the colour.”
“That makes a lot of sense” said Alex “I should have thought of that myself.”
So Alex went home and ate 10 big, very red tomatoes:
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and then he drank a large bottle of very red ketchup:
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And was almost sick — GWACKKH
and started to drink a bottle of ‘Very Red, Very Hot, Mexican, Tabasco Pepper Sauce:
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
GREEN smoke came out on one ear.
RED smoke came out his other ear.
And fire came out of his nose.
Alex put his head under the kitchen faucet until the fire stopped coming out of his nose, and then he said “I think Arie is fooling me!” “I am going to fool Arie!”
Alex ran to Arie’s house and said
“Hey Arie!”
“It worked!”
“It worked!”
“It worked!”
“My hair turned red!”
“But I didn’t like my hair red, so I changed it back to black!”
“WOW!” said Arie “How did you do that?”
“Easy!” said Alex “I ate 10 long pieces of very black licorice.”
So Arie went home and ate 10 pieces of very long, very black licorice.
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and ran to the bathroom and looked at his hair in the mirror. His hair was still red.
Arie ran to Alex’s house and yelled
“Look at my HAIR Alex!”
“It is still RED Alex!”
“What is GOING ON Alex”
“What is GOING ON!!!!“
“OH!” said Alex “I forgot about the coffee. You have to grab a cup of your dad’s very black coffee and drink the whole thing.
“Right” said Arie “That makes a lot of sense. I should have thought of that.”
So Arie went home and ate 10 pieces of very long, very black licorice
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and drank a large cup of his dad’s very black coffee.
GLUG
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And was almost sick — GWACKKH!
Then Arie ran to a mirror and looked at his hair. It was still RED!
Arie’s ran to Alex’s house and yelled
“Look at my HAIR Alex!”
“It is still RED Alex!”
“What is GOING ON Alex”
“What is GOING ON!!!!!!!“
“Let me think said” said Alex “OH! I forgot the most important thing! After the licorice and coffee, you have to eat all the very black pepper in a big pepper shaker. It sets the colour.”
“Right” said Arie “That makes a lot of sense. I should have thought of that.”
So Arie went home and ate 10 pieces of very long, very black licorice
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and drank a large cup of his dad’s very black coffee.
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And was almost sick — GWACKKH!
And then Alex took the top of a very big shaker of very black pepper and tried to eat the pepper
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CHOMP
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
GREEN smoke came out of one ear
RED smoke came out the other ear.
And fire came out of his nose.
Arie put his head under the kitchen faucet until the fire stopped coming out of his nose.
Then he ran to Alex’s house and said
“Alex! You fooled ME.”
“I fooled YOU.’
“ My dad is not very smart.”
“Let’s try to fool HIM!””
© Bob Munsch Ent. Ltd. – 2005