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Post by Pyro on Jan 21, 2005 20:22:38 GMT -5
ladybugs.....and fireflys? please wich one?
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Post by Alex on Jan 22, 2005 12:45:11 GMT -5
Sorry. I had ladybugs on my mind, it was fireflies.
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Post by Alex on Jan 22, 2005 13:03:31 GMT -5
Here's a long one: Harold WHen it got hot in the valley, thomas and alfred drove their cows up to a cool, green pasture in the mountains to graze. Usually they stayed there with the cows for two months. Then they brought them down to the valley again. The work was easy enough, but, oh, it was boring. At night they went back to the tiny hut where they lived. They ate supper and worked in the garden and went to sleep. It was always the same. Then thomas had an idea that changed everything. "Let's make a doll the size of a man,"he said. "It would be fun to make, and we could put it in the garden to scare away the birds. "It should look like Harold," alfred said. Harold was a farmer they both hated. They made a doll out of old sacks stuffed with starw. They gave it a pointy nose like Harold's and tiny eyes like his. They then added dark hair and a twisted frown. Of course they gave it Harolds name. Each morning on their way to the pasture, they tied HArold to a pole in the garden to scare away the birds. Each night they brought him inside so that he wouldn't get ruined if it rained. When they were feeling playful, they would talk to him. One of them might say "How are the vegetables growing?" Then the other, make beleiving he was Harold, would answer in a crazy voice, " very slowly." They both would laugh, but not Harold. Whenever something went wrong, they took it out on Harold. They would curse at him, and even kick him or punch him. Sometimes one of them would take the food they were eating (which they were both sick of) and smear it on the doll's face. :How do you like that stew, Harold?" he would ask. "well, you'd better eat it or else." Then the two men would howl with laughter.
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Post by Alex on Jan 22, 2005 13:22:44 GMT -5
sorry but it wouldn't fit in one post. One night, after Thomas had wiped Harold's face with food, Harold grunted.
"did you hear that?" asked Alfred.
"It was harold." Thomas said. "I was watching him when it happened. i can't beleive it happened."
"How could he grunt? He's just a sack of straw, it's not possible." said Alfred.
"let's throw him in the fire," said thomas. "And that will be that."
"Now, let's not do anytihng stupid." said alfred. "We don't know what's going on. When we move the cows down, we'll leave him behind. For now, let's just keep an eye on him.
So they left Harold sitting in a corner of the hut. They didn't talk to him or take him outside anymore. Now and then the doll grunted, but that was all. After a few days they was nothing to be afraid of. SO thomas and alfred went back to their old ways. Each morning they put him out in the graden, each night they brought him back inside. When they felt playful, they joked with him. When they were mad, they treated him as badly as ever.
Then one night Alfred noticed something that frightened him."Harold's growing.," he said
"I was just thinking the same thing," said thomas.
"Maybe it's our imaginations."Alfred replied."
The next morning, while they were eating, Harold stood up and walked out of the hut. He climed up on the roof and trotted back anf forth, like a horse on it's hind legs. All day and all night long he trotted like that.
In the morning Harold climed down and stood in a far corner of the pasture. The men had no idea what he would do next, they were afraid. Tehy decided to take the cows down in the valley that same day. When they left, Harold was no where in sight. hey fel as if they had escaped a great danger and began joking and singin'. But when they had gone only a mile or two, they realized they had forgotten to bring the milking stools.
Niether one wanted to go back for them, but the stools would cost alot to replace."There really isn't anything to be afraid of," they told one another. "after all, what could a doll do?"
They drew straws to see which one would go back. It was thomas. "I'll catch up with you," he said. and alfred walked on toward the valley.
When Alfred came to a rise in the path, he looked back for Thomas. He did not see him anywhere. But he did see Harold. The doll was on the roof again. As alfred watched, Harold knee;ed and stretched out a bloody skin to dry in the sun.
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