submarine Sure he can lift a car Shaggy said But can he lift a super-duper quadruple-decker Scooby-Doober submarine sandwich and eat it in one bite Show em Scooby Scooby stood up and pretended to make a super-duper quadruple-decker Scooby-Doober sandwich The make believe sandwich got taller and taller Scooby pretended to put the last piece of bread on top He bent over and slipped one paw under the bottom of the invisible sandwich He put another paw on top of the invisible sandwich He took a deep breath and then using all his might squeezed the enormous pretend sandwich together He opened his mouth and gobbled it down in one gigantic bite CHOMP G-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-lp Ahhhh hhhhh Scooby sat down next to Shaggy and raised his front paws to show off his Scooby muscles 5
Here’s your chance Velma said He’s Great job Scooby Shaggy said You could show that Astoundo guy a thing or two about real strength coming this way walking toward them Yikes Shaggy exclaimed Like I didn’t mean now He and Scooby ducked behind Fred Daphne and Velma The gang looked up and saw Astoundo 6
tickets Chapter 2 Astoundo the Strongest Man in the World walked right past Fred Daphne and Velma He stopped behind the ticket booth and knocked on the door He was holding a short piece of rope The door opened and Pops Warner stepped out Do you see this Pops Astoundo said He shook the piece of rope at Pops Someone cut one of the ropes that hold up my tent When Pops asked Just now the strong man replied And I saw the Creeper running away from my tent 7
Of course not Astoundo Pops said The strong man turned and walked back Pops looked concerned At least he didn’t cut all of the ropes and make your tent col lapse he said Don’t worry Astoundo we’ll catch him You’d better Astoundo said If this stuff keeps up I’m going to leave And if I leave this whole carnival will close down And you wouldn’t want that would you Pops to his tent Fred stepped forward Excuse me Pops Fred said Is every thing all right We couldn’t help but overhear what Astoundo was saying I don’t know what to do Pops said Just yesterday somebody saw the Creeper running out of Bossie’s tent A few minutes later Bossie was running down the midway laughing up a storm And you think the Creeper opened Bossie’s pen and cut the rope to Astoundo’s tent Velma asked 8
