What About the Cow?

September 14, 2011 at 1:04 pm · Filed under Family, fun stuff, Good stuff, Mostly fiction, Stories ·Tagged author, Charles L. Mashburn, children, children's story, http://bluebellbooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/short-story-slam-week-10-childrens.html, story, writer

 This is kind of out of my league, but I enjoy a challenge, so I’m submitting this children’s story to Bluebell Books Short Story Slam #10. Hope y’all enjoy it!

What About the Cow?

Donald is mad at those pesky chipmunks, and for a very good reason. Dale—or is it Chip—is on top of his hat, and the other one is sticking his silly little tongue out at him! They’ve been pestering poor Donald all morning, and he has about reached his limit.

Thumper knows Donald is about to explode, and he whisper to his buddy, Flower, that maybe they should move back so they won’t be in the middle of things when Donald goes totally bonkers. Flower passes the warning to Bambi, and her eyes get so big you’d think headlights were shining in them! She agrees that maybe they should move away and hide in the forest.

The chipmunks continue to chatter and giggle, Donald quacking angrily at them and steam beginning to come out from under his hat. Then a loud noise startles them all.

“MOOOOOO!”

All the other animals turn toward the sound, and they all stare at Bossy the cow.

Bossy stares back, and when she’s sure she has everyone’s attention, she says, “What about the cow?”

Dale stops trying to push Donald’s hat off his head, and yells at Bossy in his little chipmunk voice, “What do you mean, what about the cow?”

Bossy calmly chews her cud for a moment then says, “If you don’t stop pestering Donald, you’ll miss the show.”

Chip stops wagging his tongue at Donald and turning to Bossy, says, “What show? The one where you jump over the moon? It’s day time, there is no moon.”

Dale chimes in, “Yeah! There isn’t a moon in the day time!”

Bossy smiles and says, “Oh, I know that, but there is this beautiful, sparkling rainbow.”

The chipmunks giggle and point then Dale says, “You can’t jump over the rainbow!”

Chip yells, “Silly cow!”

Bossy just smiles and says, “No, I surely can’t jump over the rainbow, but did you notice how close to the end of it I am?”

Dale and chip shout in unison, “So!”

Bossy says, “So! You haven’t heard about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?”

“Gold!” the pesky chipmunks shout. And without another word, they jump to the ground and run toward the end of the rainbow. When they get there, they don’t see a pot of gold, and Chip angrily asks Bossy, “Hey where’s the pot of gold?”

Bossy looks startled. “Oh!” she says. “I’m sorry you misunderstood me. The pot of gold is at the other end of the rainbow.”

Chip and Dale looked at each other and then took off like a shot toward the other end of the rainbow. It was a long ways to the other end, but they didn’t mind. They giggled and laughed as they ran, and talked about how rich they were going to be.

Bossy walked over to where Donald and the others were, and as she arrived, Donald said, “Thanks, Bossy!”

Bossy said, “Don’t mention it. I’m always glad to help a friend.”

 

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