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Goofy’s Sledding Contest
Written by Disney’s Mickey and Friends (Copyright 2003)
Adapted in “accessible format” (Chafee Amendment) by Amy Shepherd M.Ed. for students with CVI and Low Vision.
Further reproduction or distribution in other than a specialized format is prohibited.
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One chilly morning Goofy woke up to find snow outside his window.
“Yahoo!” he yelled as he jumped out of bed. “Winter is here!”
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Goofy loved the winter. He loved getting bundled up in his warmest clothes.
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He loved building snowmen and the crunch the snow made as he walked through it.
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But Goofy’s favorite thing was sledding!
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Goofy looked at his sleds.
They were all fun to ride, but he wondered if there was a faster way down the hill.
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Goofy dug through his closet, looking for something that would be slippery enough. He found just the thing…
His surfboard!
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Goofy ran outside and up a hill.
He put the surfboard on the ground, jumped up on it, and…
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…sank! The surfboard was too heavy! “Gosh,” said Goofy. “I guess I need to find something different.”
Goofy thought and thought. Then he had an idea. Goofy got two bananas.
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He put the peels on his feet and took a step forward.
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Bam! Goofy slipped on the peels and fell backward into the snow. “Ouch!” he said. “I guess I slip on banana peels, but they do not slip on snow.”
Just then, Mickey came along. “Why are you lying in the snow?” he asked Goofy.
“I was trying to find the fastest way down the hill,” Goofy explained.
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“Hmmm,” Mickey said. “I have a racing sled that is very fast. You could try that.”
“Thank you, Mickey,” said Goofy. “I wonder if it is faster than my sleds. We should have a race!”
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But which of his sleds should Goofy bring with him?
A saucer?
A toboggan?
A tube?
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Goofy Could not decide. So he piled his sleds into a laundry basket and dragged them all to the park.
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At the top of the hill, Goofy and Mickey got ready to race.
“Everybody ready?” Mickey said, “on your marks, get set…”
But Goofy was not ready! He turned to Mickey to ask him to wait…
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…and fell right into his laundry basket. “GO!” yelled Mickey.
“Whoops!” yelled Goofy. The race had started without him!
Just then the basket started slipping down the hill. It moved faster and faster. Goofy slid past Mickey.
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Goofy looked around. He was in the lead. His ears blew back in the wind. Snow flew up all around him.
“Yahoo!” he yelled. He raced past a snowman at the bottom of the hill. Goofy had won!
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“You were so fast!” Mickey said.
“How did you think of using a laundry basket? asked Minnie.
Goofy smiled. “I guess you could say I just stumbled into it!
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