Where is Candy Land?

The next day, as usual, Tom went to school. He told his friend, Mary, about Candy Land and the pixies.

“Would you like to come to Candy land with me today?” Tom asked.

Mary said, “I would love to come with you!”

“Great! I will meet you at my house after school.”

“Ok!”

Ring! Ring! The school bell rang. All the children ran to the school gate. Mary went home to get permission from her mother if she could go to Tom’s house.

Her mother said with a tender smile, “Okay, but you have to be back in one and a half an hour’s time to finish up your homework. It is a school day you know.”

Mary said “Thank you, mother!”

Mary ran excitedly to Tom’s house. She saw Tom and Troy waiting for her at the playground. Mary shouted at them.

“Hey, Tom! Are we going or not?”

Tom ran to her and then together they went to the field and looked for the tree he had seen the previous day, but the hole was nowhere to be found! He searched for it high and low, behind nearby trees, rocks and bushes, practically everywhere, but with no luck.

“Mary, I thought the hole was here but now it’s gone!”

Mary was shocked as well as disappointed.

They went to the lake behind Tom’s house, hoping to find the hole. They searched everywhere for nearly an hour until Tom found it at last.

“Mary, Mary look! It’s the hole! I found it! Let’s go!”

But when they reached the bottom, what they saw was not Candy Land but what seemed like… Cherry Land!