Bedtime stories of Tyrone
Tyrone the loveable tyke
Tyrone is a 4 year, kindy schooler.
He is a vibrant, athletically active, noisy tyke with a loud horse laugh.
A laugh that would make anyone stop and stare.
Daily, he and his father, Dan, spend some time on bedtime stories.
Here I will skip over the yells, screeches and other
terrible animal noises they make to make the stories real.
Anyhow, they sound real to me.
One day it was the turn of the elephant to be the hero.
After one or two reminders from Judy, the mother, that it is time for bed … the story of the day began in reluctant earnest.
Dan described how the elephant walks ambling along, waving
two large ears, one on each side, of the huge grey animal.
He told about how it works, carrying huge logs from one place to the other, doing the work of almost twenty men.
Then he spoke about the food the animal eats in huge quantity.
“What does it eat Dada?”
“Come on now, you close your eyes and listen to the story …”
“Ok?”
“Ok, but …”
“The mahout gives it sugar cane in huge bundles”
“What is mahout, Dada?”
“Mahout is the man who controls the elephant”
“Why should a man control the elephant?
“Somebody has to control and tell it what to do, like
driving a car”
“Like Dada driving our car?”
“yes, yes, then the mahout gives the elephant a long sugar
cane”
“What is sugar cane?”
“I told you to close your eyes and listen … sugar cane is long
thin sweet plants the elephants love to it … It takes a long
cane with it’s looooong nose …”
“Trunk Dada, not nose”
There erupted a thunderous laughter in the living room we
were seated watching a muted television show.
I am the writer of this article … Word Press is not yet ready for publication by no savvy people.
Throughout the afternoon I spent long hours posting this directly on to the write box here. The lines were telescoping into one another.
Finally I came now and pasted from Note Pad. Yet the ugly feature is raising its horrible face. No amount of editing is able to eradicate this annoying feature.
It is a shame indeed. It stumps me how the others post so easily and praise Word Press in such glorifying terms.
Thank you. Shall be back in a few week’s time.
Ben Aloysius.
By: benzaloy on May 19, 2007
at 2:11 pm
Hey, it’s all wonderful … a tired and hasty mind of a newbie made above entry.
My apologies Word Press. Don’t take it to heart, I am sorry.
By: benzaloy on May 21, 2007
at 7:05 am