Furwaggle Chapter 17

Chapter 17
All in the family

It is generally quiet and peaceful in this wonderful fictitious dreamland, called Furwaggle. But there are rare days when there is some noisy confusion and today is one of those times, kinda like what happens in the real world.
The sun is just peaking up over the far off mountain range when Fluffy crawls out of his little doghouse and does a big stretch followed by just as big a yawn. He then opens one eye and what he sees causes him to give out a loud scream while jumping up on top of his little house. After a moment or two he realizes what had scared him. Still shaken he said with a whimper, “Oh, it’s you Mrs. Frog. I didn’t recognize you at first”. Mrs. Frog snapped back with, “Fluffy you get down from there this minute, stop fooling around. I have a complaint to make.”. While climbing down from his little house Fluffy explained to Mrs. Frog, “It’s the Imperial Grand Wizard who you should be talking to. He is the head of the complaint department. But right now he is on vacation and should be back in about a year or so”. Mrs. Frog yelled back, “It’s not the Wizard that I have problem with, it’s one of your relatives that’s the problem”. Fluffy tried to explain, “I don’t have any relatives, I was an only puppy and …….”. Mrs. Frog interrupted with, “Don’t you sass me, you young whipper snapper. I know what I saw, now what are you going to do about it?”. Then Fluffy remembered one of Wiggles sayings, “When in doubt, ask about”. So Fluffy in a very calm voice asked, “Mrs. Frog Just what do you want me to do about what?”. Mrs. Frog was now yelling at Fluffy, “All that noise, it’s been going on all night and I didn’t get a wink of sleep.”. Fluffy raised one ear and listened but all he could hear was a cricket down by the pond, and a butterfly flapping his wings over by the apple trees but that is about it. He then thought, “So much for Wiggles sayings.”. He then said to Mrs. Frog, “I don’t hear any noise.”. Mrs. Frog came back with, “of course not now, it quit when I hit it with a rock. And that poor Mother Chicken.”. With a shocked voice Fluffy asked, “You hit Mother Chicken with a rock?”. Mrs. Frog near hysterics when she answered, “No you dummy, aren’t you paying attention. It was your one of your relatives that I hit with a rock, he was prowling around the hen house and Mother Chicken was kicking up a noisy ruckus.”. With a steely glare she followed with,” Now what are you going to do about?”. Fluffy knew that look, it was the kind that gave you warts if you didn’t cooperate. Fluffy knew what was good for him and he said to Mrs. Frog, “Yes, Mrs. Frog, I will get right on it, no relative (cough) of mine is going to get away with something like that.”. With that, Mrs. Frog turned on her heel and started off toward the chuck house. After four or five steps she turned her head and said, in a stern voice, “Well!”. With that Fluffy took off at a trot and didn’t look back.
About half way to the henhouse there was a big tree and Fluffy sees Zorba hanging from a limb by his tail and a peaceful “zzzz” was coming from him. Fluffy knew that he was going to need some help unraveling this noisy relative thing. So, with a loud bark he set in motion a number of things. Zorbas eyes opened, his tail came lose from the tree limb and he fell, landing on his nose with a thud and then there was a loud squeaky scream. Zorba jumped up and began hopping around in a circle while holding his nose, all the time squealing at the top of his lungs, “Oh that hurts, ouch, ouch!”. At the end of his second full circle of hopping he came face to face with Fluffy. He yelled at him, “What do you mean wakening me up like that?”. Fluffy said, “I’m sorry Zorba. I never new anyone but possums and maybe that bats sleep hanging like that.”. “Well I do”, snapped Zorba. Then he followed with, “Just what is so dank fire important that you wake me and give me a sore nose?”. Fluffy then rattled off, “Noisy relatives, rock throwing Mrs. Frog, and warts.”. Zorba just stood there with his mouth open. At about that time Wiggles came walking up and said, “Hi there guys. What’s going on?”. Zorba turned to Wiggles and said, “Something about a relative, a rock and warts, I think, also Fluffy gave me a sore nose and I may have brain damage because I’m seeing things.”. Wiggles asked, “What kind of things are you seeing?”. Zorba said, “Well for one thing, I see a big question mark above Fluffy’s head and for another I don’t understand a thing he is saying.”. With a laugh Wiggles explains, “Not to worry, few understand Fluffy and the question mark above his head is normal when ever he gets confused. Now where are you guys headed?”. Fluffy jumped in with, “Come on, give me a hand. We are going to the henhouse and fix a relative that I don’t have.” Zorba said to Wiggles, “Come on grab my tail and I will guide you.” With that all three started off toward the henhouse.
When they arrived at the henhouse, all was quite and the chickens were all on their nests. Well, Wiggles said, “I don’t hear any noise, it seems to me that things are as they should be. Do either of you see anything out of place?”. Zorba looked around and said, “Everything looks ok to me, except maybe for that big ball of fur over there in the chicken yard.” “Where, where?”, asked Fluffy. Zorba pointed and said, “Over there. It reminds me of something I saw in a zoo once. Something like a Wombat, no maybe it was a Tiger.” With that Fluffy marches over to the fur ball and demanded, “Are you a relative of mine?”. The ball of fur shook a little and a eye peaked out. Then a raspy voice said, “Are you that rock throwing frog?”. “No, I’m not a rock throwing frog on any other kind of rocking thing.”, said Fluffy. With that the ball of fur stood up and shook it self all over. “That’s not a tiger, it’s a fox.”, said Zorba. Fluffy took a close look and said, “You’re no relative of mine. Who are you?”, challenged Fluffy. “I’m Tricky the fox and I have a big lump on my head.”, replied the fur. Wiggles just had to ask, “Ok Tricky, just what are you doing around here?”. Tricky responded with, “Well you see I was walking along when I spied this building and just to be friendly I stopped to say hello. Then out of no where this frog threw a rock and hit me in the head.”. With a smirk Wiggles said, “So you’re just an ordinary fox in the henhouse, is what you’re saying.”. “So you’re not a relative”, observed Fluffy. And with that the question mark faded from over Fluffy. Then Zorba said, “I think we should be smart as a fox and get out of here before Mother Chicken sees us and we have another rock throwing thing.”. Wiggles joined in with, “Yes, we should be moving along. Maybe go over to the Chicken Doctor and get you all fixed up.”. Fluffy said, “I don’t have a bur in my paw and the punctuation is all gone. I’m not confused any more.”. Tricky answered back with, “I’ve had about all the chickens that I can stand for one day. I’m heading out to Wyoming where I have a job to pose for a statue.”. Tricky then took off at a fast gallop, not even looking back or saying anything. Zorba then said, “Well my nose is all better. And I don’t see anything weird over Fluffy’s head any more but I do hear a ringing in my ears.”. Fluffy perked up one ear and said with joy, “That’s not in your head. That’s the second call to breakfast bell. Come on lets go so we aren’t late.”. With that they started walking toward the chuck house, Zorba added a remark, “I hope they have some more of that oatmeal with peppers. It was sure tasty.”.
My tiny mind thinks that it’s a good thing to keep in touch with your relatives, and don’t play with frogs, you might get warts.
Continued… (maybe).
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