The end of a hero

Saying for the Day: A hero is sometimes treated like garbage by the people he helped.

This is another tale from the parsonage .
When Peter learned to crawl he had a big stuffed dog that he just loved.
He would crawl to it and drag it around.
It made him happy.

I have included two pictures with this entry .

One is of a happy little Peter and the other of a sad little Peter.

As I said the dog made him happy.
One day when we had a nice fire in the fire place something popped out onto the dog and burned a hole in its side.
Peter was laying on it at the time but it was between him and the fire place which had no screen.
It saved him from being burned because his parents weren’t sharp enough to protect him.

The hole , however, caused the dog (even though we tried to patch it) to begin falling apart.
We had to throw it away.
Thus the picture of sad Peter who missed his dog.

We got him a big stuffed snake to replace it and that’s the third picture.

With parents like us my kids were lucky to survive.

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News from Pigeon Falls– the little town in my backyard where Liar’s win prizes.– Old Billy Twain who claims to be a descendant of Mark Twain was the next story teller. Here is his story.
Two years ago a traveling magician came to Pigeon Falls. He set up a huge tent and charged $5.00 a ticket to see his show. Well he was a very poor magician and people started shouting they wanted their money back. What they didn’t know was they he may have been a poor magician but he was a very good hypnotist. For his last trick he set up this brightly lit revolving ball and hypnotized everybody in the tent.
He then gave them a set of commands that would cause them to see things whenever they were in certain circumstances and heard certain words. What they saw was a large , white rabbit wearing a sweater and at other times a flying dragon. They each would seem real. They would see them do things in keeping with the event. Our magician then told them to remember him as a great magician and brought them out of the trance. People talked about how good he as for weeks. He had every intention of coming back and removing the suggestion he had implanted but he got killed in a terrible accident. Thus the good people of Pigeon Falls began to see a big White Rabbit on a regular basis and a dragon every once in a while. Now I want to assure you this is not a story I made up. This is the truth. More than that I know the words that will cause the rabbit and the dragon to appear. If you see me privately I might even tell them to you.
Again the committee is holding off the announcement of the scores until all have finished.
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It has been an interesting day so far. First the server containg the marathon lists went down. That didn't last too long but it was bothersome. Then mys sister called. Then we packed the prizes and Betty took them to the Post Office. We also packed up some sewing supplies for Cindy and got those out. Then I worked on counting the marathon hits. Now I am dizzy. I will finish the counting tomorrow once I close all the lists. Never again a week long marathon. Never again. Next time a one day mini-marathon on the first Wednesday of November.
Well I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA