text: The one legged mule One cold Monday dougal McDermott woke up to find his mother standing menacingly by the doorway of his room shouting,” get up boy we haven’t got all day!” , “ Your great aunt Marge is coming home for the weekend and I need you to help clean the house.” But dougal didn’t feel like getting up it was cold outside and his bed was warm and cosy so dougal stayed in bed. Dougal's mother shouted at him again but dougal didn’t even budge. Then dougal’s mother got fed up and shouted,”dougal you are as stubborn as a donkey!” Around half an hour later dougal felt thirsty so dougal went to get water but as dougal was going back to his room dougal’s mother saw him and said,”oh I see you finally got out of bed so you can come help me wash the dishes, however dougal didn’t feel like getting washing the dishes so he carried on walking. Dougal’s mother got annoyed and shouted,”dougal you are as stubborn as a donkey!”. At twelve o’clock dougal’s aunt Marge came and she asked dougal to make some tea but dougal did not feel like making tea so dougal carried on watching TV. But little did dougal know his great aunt was a witch. Quick as a flash she pulled out a wand and placed a spell on dougal that every time he is stubborn he turns a bit more into a donkey. Dougal’s great aunt then asks him again to get her some tea and again dougal did not get it. However this time dougal’s ears turned a bit grey and a bit more hairy. Dougal on the other hand did not notice any difference to his appearance at all and carried on being stubborn. Eventually even dougal noticed and he began to worry about what will happen to him and how he might get bullied when he eventually goes back to school. Being a donkey however had its positives and by the time dougal went back to school he already had donkey legs. This to many may seem like a negative but it’s usefulness showed up one fine Wednesday when the school bullies Richard Dickson and his best friend Patrick were bullying dougal as usual and were about to dunk dougal in the toilet when dougal reared his hind legs and kicked Richard in his stomach. The bullies then left dougal alone and went back to bullying small people. The end of the year was nearing and dougal was almost fully donkey when a strange thing happened, dougal’s rear back leg fell of! Dougal’s mother rushed him to the vet where the vet informed him that he was in fact a mule and not a donkey. As dougal was climbing into the car both his front legs came of and dougal just rolled onto his back. Dougal’s great aunt has since learnt what had happened to dougal but as she said in a hoarse voice on her dying day, the spell was irreversible but it thought a great lesson to all the kids in his town. Even today if you go to Warwickshire you will hear the great legend of dougal McDermott the one legged mule.