Dog and Cricket
A bedtime story.
A long time ago, all the animals were created by
the Great Big Flash of Light. One of them was Dog. Another was
Cricket.
Dog romped and played and jumped and barked across the creation. Cricket could do all the same, nearly keeping up, except that Cricket did not bark. She tried. She watched Dog barking, watched how he opened his mouth and moved his tongue and slobbered into the sky, spreading stars left and right. But, try as she might, Cricket couldn't bark.
One night, as they romped and played, Dog slipped in a large pool of his own slobber, sliding across the creation on his tail, spreading a wide swath of stars from left to right. But when Dog came to a halt, he discovered he could not move... his legs were broken! Dog whimpered, but the pain was too much, and he quieted down.
His friend, Cricket, she who played and romped with Dog, tried to bark, to call attention to Dog, trying to get the attention of any of the other animals. But no noise came from her little mouth. It was good at biting through grass, or shearing small twigs.
But it was no good for barking.
Dog was dying. His doggy life was slowly fading, though, like any good canine, Dog was wagging his tail, even in the midst of his demise.
Cricket had never seen this behavior from a dying animal. She tried to imitate it, to make Dog laugh, and thus ease his way into the next world. As she tried to wag her tail, Cricket rubbed the rough plates of her legs' armor together, and made a loud chirrup!
It scared her and made Dog sneeze!
She did it again. And again! She got better, louder, and soon was chirruping louder than Dog had ever barked!
All the animals ran to the new sound. They came in droves, in schools, in flocks, in gaggles.
They came to the sound and found Dog and Cricket, with the little insect's legs raw from her noisemaking.
They took them both back to the Great Big Flash of Light and bade it to heal them. The GeeBeeEffOhEll shone down and healed Dog's leg, but, in so doing, set the knees backwards. (The GeeBeeEffOhEll was not the sharpest crayon in the box....) And, for Cricket, he simply made the armor work better so that all her noisemaking would not rub her legs raw.
And so, Dog barked and played and romped..
And Cricket...?
Well, Cricket waited till after Dog had finished and the GeeBeeEffOhEll had fallen from the sky and then rubbed her legs together.. so everyone could hear! And, to this day, she rubs her legs in the evening to let Dog know that, if he needs her, she is right there.
Dog romped and played and jumped and barked across the creation. Cricket could do all the same, nearly keeping up, except that Cricket did not bark. She tried. She watched Dog barking, watched how he opened his mouth and moved his tongue and slobbered into the sky, spreading stars left and right. But, try as she might, Cricket couldn't bark.
One night, as they romped and played, Dog slipped in a large pool of his own slobber, sliding across the creation on his tail, spreading a wide swath of stars from left to right. But when Dog came to a halt, he discovered he could not move... his legs were broken! Dog whimpered, but the pain was too much, and he quieted down.
His friend, Cricket, she who played and romped with Dog, tried to bark, to call attention to Dog, trying to get the attention of any of the other animals. But no noise came from her little mouth. It was good at biting through grass, or shearing small twigs.
But it was no good for barking.
Dog was dying. His doggy life was slowly fading, though, like any good canine, Dog was wagging his tail, even in the midst of his demise.
Cricket had never seen this behavior from a dying animal. She tried to imitate it, to make Dog laugh, and thus ease his way into the next world. As she tried to wag her tail, Cricket rubbed the rough plates of her legs' armor together, and made a loud chirrup!
It scared her and made Dog sneeze!
She did it again. And again! She got better, louder, and soon was chirruping louder than Dog had ever barked!
All the animals ran to the new sound. They came in droves, in schools, in flocks, in gaggles.
They came to the sound and found Dog and Cricket, with the little insect's legs raw from her noisemaking.
They took them both back to the Great Big Flash of Light and bade it to heal them. The GeeBeeEffOhEll shone down and healed Dog's leg, but, in so doing, set the knees backwards. (The GeeBeeEffOhEll was not the sharpest crayon in the box....) And, for Cricket, he simply made the armor work better so that all her noisemaking would not rub her legs raw.
And so, Dog barked and played and romped..
And Cricket...?
Well, Cricket waited till after Dog had finished and the GeeBeeEffOhEll had fallen from the sky and then rubbed her legs together.. so everyone could hear! And, to this day, she rubs her legs in the evening to let Dog know that, if he needs her, she is right there.
Posted: Tue - January 8, 2008 at 10:05 PM
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