![]() Will the creature get its tail back and what will happen to the old man? But then he heard the creature say again: ![]() The old man then sent his three dogs out to chase the creature away and after that, he went back to bed. However in the middle of the night, the old man started hearing strange sounds inside the cabin and it was then that he heard a mysterious creature say to him: ![]() ![]() The old man then took the tail and ended up eating it for supper and went to bed in a satisfied state. The old man then took his hatchet and chopped the creature’s tail off as the creature escaped from the house. Suddenly, the old man spots an odd creature coming in through the cracks between the logs in the wall and he notices that the creature has an extremely long tail. ![]() The story starts off with an old man taking his three dogs (Uno, Ino and Cumptico-Calico) out hunting and they managed to capture a rabbit, which the old man ate for dinner. So when I picked up Joanna Galdone’s retelling of the Tailypo story called “The Tailypo: A Ghost Story,” along with artwork by her father Paul Galdone, I was pleasantly surprised by how creepy this story came out! I have read many horror children’s books that deal with monsters, witches and ghosts, but I had never read any children’s books or folklore books for that matter that deal with the Tailypo before. ![]()
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