Daycroft Montessori
Long ago on a misty, marshy, uninhabited swamp with lush reed beds and a rickety wooden dock lived a hideous green monster called the Swamp Goon. It lived under the dock. The monster was seven feet, five inches, green, and scaly. It smelled of dead fish and unpleasant dead things. It had a round head and two fins on either side of its head. Disgusting water plants were its hair and lining its mouth was fringe with whiskers. It had large impenetrable metallic green scales except for its belly. It had webbed and clawed hands and feet. It was once human, but was cursed. After eleven stacks no one went there—all but one young man who fought the beast with a knife but it bounced off its scales. Soon it was upon him, and he was on the beach when its vulnerable spot was showing. He stabbed it, and it shuddered and hissed and fell dying into the water, and everyone lived happily.
