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Felipe and
Forest were circling in the air above. On the
sides of the path, G and J saw eyes watching
them. Foxes, squirrels, bears, linx, cougars,
rabbits and whatnot. The path was getting steeper
and skinnier and sometimes rocks slid down
the hill, rolling into the forest. The intense
light ahead seemed to be growing brighter and
G said "I think I need sunglasses, Hoo." "Me
too," he replied.
When they made a turn in the bend of the path
to the left, Julio shouted out "I see the
Lamb!" Well, it was called, Island of the
Lamb. "He’s huge!" Granma didn’t see
him I guess because he hid out of sight real
fast. Felipe was parroting above their heads,
and they couldn’t understand what he was saying
from that distance, so he came down and landed
on Cools’ back. "What I was diciendo es,
(saying is) I think we spotted the sucking well,
about dos millas (two miles) up ahead." "Well,
no sense rushing," said J, "we can’t
go anywhere til night time and the full moon." G
just had a thought! "But Hoo," she
said, "even if we can’t see the moon, it
is still out there, full somewhere, even during
the day. Maybe we should go an hang out by the
sucking well anyway." "Ok, I just wanted
to explore around here a bit. Hey, I wonder if
we can ride Cool?" J asked. "Well,
he’s too little now. You’ll make him sway back.
When he gets older we can try," said G " …er….uh….
you can try."
Then G came up with an idea: She pulled one of
the old blankies out of a basket and gave it
to Julio for Cool. Stopping on the path for awhile,
J tied the blanky on Cool ... so Felipe would
have something to hang onto besides Cool hair.
Now Cool wasn’t too crazy about this tying around
the belly stuff and said so. He was a talking
Assjack, you know. He had such a cute little
lop-eared voice; sounded like it came right out
of a lop-eared rabbits’ mouth! HA! Felipe was
standing on a rock eyeing the whole situation
with a questioning look. This would be interesting.
They led Cool over to the rock so Felipe could
carefully get on. "Watch the toenails there," whispered
Cool. They moseyed on up the path with Felipe
riding on Cool’s back, hanging onto Cool hair
and blanky. They heard a little parrot squawk:
that was Felipe getting bounced up in the air
by a tiny Cool jerk and kick/buck. As I was saying,
they were moseying on up the path now, for it
leveled off at the top of the mountain, going
only slightly up hill. Forest was still flying
ahead and lower and lower. Ouch, he bumped into
a sapling tree while he was looking back at Felipe,
trying not to laugh.
There was still a purple mist low to the ground,
that looked like wispy snakes sometimes across
their path. Then Granma shouted, "I think
I see the Lamb! Up ahead!" The FF’s musta
been blind for they weren’t able to see anything
at all, and Forest had the advantage of flying
up above. Felipe took off again, much to Cool’s
delight. He was mumbling something about toenails
in his back. G & J had both been wondering,
and Hoo said something to the effect: "When
we get home, do you think Mober, Pep, Muff and
Cool will still be able to talk?" asked
J. "I don’t know, "said G, "but
maybe if they can, they will teach Blackie & Cowboy
how to talk too. "Yeah," says Hoo, "and
the chickens!" They both laughed and imagined
the chickens talking. "Oooh, there goes
a worm; oh no, a grasshopper, get it quick!" laughed
Hoo.
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