3rd Genre Fiction
Hide and Seek
Author's Note:
Long ago, in the days before the Oxford Reading Tree was an acorn, before Peter and Jane were even a twinkle in the educationist's eye, there lived Dick and Dora, who, in a white middle-class 1950s sort of way taught us how to read...
Hide and Seek
Dick is in the garden
Dora is in the garden
Dick and Dora play in the garden
Jack and Jill come into the garden
"Can we play with you?" says Jack
"Yes" says Dora
Dora likes Jack
"Let's play Hide and Seek" says Dick
"Yes, let's" says Jill
Jill likes Dick
Jack closes his eyes
Jack counts aloud
Jill runs to hide
Dick and Dora run to hide
Jill goes into the shed
Dora hides in a big bush
Dick goes into the shed
Jill sits in the corner
Dick can see Jill
Jill looks very small
Dick likes Jill
Dick hides under a sack
Jill can not see Dick
Fluff the cat goes into the big bush
Dora likes her cat
Jack says "Thirty. I am coming"
Jack looks for Jill
Jack looks for Dick and Dora
Jack looks behind the shed
Jack looks in the tree house
Jack looks in Dora's bush
Jack can see Dora
Jack can see Fluff in Dora's bush
"I can see your pussy, Dora" shouts Jack
Dora comes out of the bush
Dora laughs
"You can play with my pussy if you like Jack" says Dora
Mother is in the garden
"What did you say Dora?" she says
"He looked at my pussy Mother" says Dora
"I said he could play with my pussy" she says
"That is very naughty" says Mother
"Go in the house. I will spank you both.
Dick and Jill hide in the shed
Dick and Jill can hear Mother
"Mother is cross" says Dick
"She has gone in the house to spank Dora and Jack"
Jill stands up
"It is dirty on the ground" she says
"Your dress is dirty" says Dick
Jill looks at her dress
"You are a naughty girl to get your dress dirty" says Dick
"My pants are dirty as well" says Jill
"You are a very naughty girl to get your pants dirty" says Dick
"Mother will be cross" says Jill
"Mother will spank me as well" says Jill
"We will wash your pants in the water butt" says Dick "Your mother will not be cross"
"Good" says Jill
Jill takes off her pants
Dick looks at Jill
Dick likes Jill
"I was naughty to get my pants dirty" says Jill
"You should be spanked" says Dick
Jill likes Dick
"Yes, I should be spanked" says Jill.
"Will you spank me?" she says
"Yes" says Dick
Jill lies over Dick's knees
Dick lifts Jill's dress
Dick spanks Jill's bottom
"Harder" says Jill
Dick spanks Jill harder
Dick's hand is red
Jill's bottom is red
The shed door opens
Father comes into the shed
"This is very naughty" says Father
"Go in the house. I will spank you both" says Father
Kris email
I really enjoyed this strange little piece. Such a good job recreating the old style, and insterting the naughtiness with innocent words. Good job!
Crimson Kid email
I suppose the genre here is satire/parody, or possibly even fanfiction, since it's obviously based on characters in British books for very young readers. So Dick and Dora were the first brother-and-sister pair used in such books in the United Kingdom (1950s), later replaced by Peter and Jane? I find that interesting since their American counterparts of the '50s era were Dick and Jane (they also had a baby sister named Sally), taking one name each from the two British sibling duos. (I'm assuming that the visiting children, Jack and Jill, are taken from the popular nursery rhyme.)
So basically all the children in this story are about to be spanked by Dick and Dora's parents, although Dick and Jill arguably deserve their punishment--at least by 50s parenting standards--for engaging in a forbidden spanking game or perhaps for Jill's 'southern exposure' during her play punishment from Dick, while Dora and Jack really haven't misbehaved but are going to be maternally spanked due to a semantical misunderstanding. (It seems to me that Dora's mother should've realized that young children would be unlikely to know the sexually-oriented meaning of the word "pussy," but apparently she didn't--or hadn't thought about it.) Somehow I doubt that Jill will experience the same sense of childlike fun while being smacked by Dick's father that she obviously did while bare-bottom-up over Dick's knee.
This parody/satire catches the straightforward simplicity of the Dick and Jane stories, as I remember them here in the States, and I'm assuming that their British counterparts were pretty similar. (The feline names were parallel, Fluff in the U.K. and Puff in the U.S.A.) I would've loved to have read this kind of a story in school as a six-year-old, although I would've been confused RE why Dora and Jack were facing being spanked just because Jack looked at Dora's cat. But being parentally paddled for engaging in bare-bottom spanking play between opposite-gender playmates, that I would've understood perfectly...
Haron email
I would have loved to have this story to read in my first years as a reader. Such suspense! Such exciting adventures! So concisely and simply written! I got a lot of pleasure out of it.
Marie email
This was a little slow and hard to focus on at first but then I found it rather funny. It was creative and written true to the "Dick & Jane"/"Dick & Dora" format. Absolutely loved it. A new twist that I haven't seen and one I enjoyed!