By James Bullington
When I was a kid, I liked nothing better then to crawl up in the bar with a book and listen to the rain hit that old tin roof and fall and to visit the sand man until Ma and Pa got wind of where I was and put a stop to it. They told me there was a Big Oled Snake that lived in that straw, and I was never to go out there again. But, when it started raining I could not stand it. So I snuck out there with a book and listened to the rain hit that old tin roof and went to sand man land only to wake up to being slapped upside the head by what I just knew was a big monster snake. It was then I realized that a monster snake just slapped me upside the head so I ran like a scare cat down that ladder yelling, “Don’t, please Mister Monster Snake, don’t wobble me upside the head again, it might hurt.”
Running like a Freight Train, I made it to the front porch where Ma And Pa were waiting for mr, and by the look on their face I knew I was in trouble all to hell way up to my eyeballs! But they were really just relieved that I was okay. When I turned around what I seen almost made my eyeballs fall out of my head. There, standing out in the front yard, was not a monster snake, but the biggest black grizzly bear just crying up a storm. Of course I could not stand that black Grizzly bear crying so I took off at a dead run, grabbed that black grizzly bear’s hand and looked up at him and said,”Please Mister Grizzly don’t cry no more. Wipe your tears and don’t cry no more.” Well, that sure worked because that big old Black grizzly bear said he dis not mean to wobble me, but he was trying to hibernate and he needed some food. “I am very Hungary!”
Someway Ma and Pa felt sorry for the old bear so the next thing I knew Pa got his bow and arrow off the mantle and went hunting. Ma went out in the garden and started digging potatoes, carrots and all kinds of vegetables. In the mean time, while old bear was giving me piggy back rides, Pa came back with a big old Buck across his shoulders and rabbits and squirrels and coons and just a lot of stuff. Pa field dressed everything and put it all in a big pot where Ma had all the vegetables and made a fine stew.
Pa did not waste nothing. I got a coat made out of deer hide. Ma got a coat made of rabbit, squirrel, coon and and all kinds of mixture of critters. When everything was done, that old black grizzly bear really put the food away. He ate most of the food and everyone else got a little. After the old bear ate, he needed to hibernate again. I could not stand the idea of the old bear going back out to the old barn.
So I talked Ma and Pa into letting that old bear sleep in my room on a cot on the floor by my bed. There was only one problem. That old grizzly bear snored lo loud that he shook the whole house. Pa went and whittled the biggest clothes pen yo ever seen. For a spring Pa went and got some leaf spring off some old trucks he had.
After all was said and done, he put that clothes pen over that old grizzly bear’s nose and that took care of that till he woke up in the spring.
Author Unknown
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