Furwaggle Chapter 38

Chapter 38
Plumbing

It’s a bright and crisp morning as Wiggles makes his way across the barnyard toward the chuck house for breakfast. To some, like the ant colony over by the old trash heap, it may be a little on the cool side, but to Wiggles it was just right. “There was sure to be a lot of discussion about the weather over breakfast this morning”, thought Wiggles. For in this fictitious dreamland called Furwaggle animal’s talk to each other, even if it was just about unimportant things like the weather or politics.
Wiggles eyesight was not very good even with his eyeglasses. That’s the reason he doesn’t fly for the air force any more, but his hearing was very sharp. He could hear a pin drop a mile off, well at least across the barnyard. This morning Wiggles had been hearing a lot of sniffling and mumbling ever since he had come out of the barn. He was pretty sure who it was making such sounds; no one else could make that high pitch whimper.
Sure enough when Wiggles got to the chuck house there sat Fluffy on the chuck house porch cry into his fur. “What’s the matter Fluffy, got another thorn in your paw”, asked Wiggles? “Oh no, it’s worst than that, the chuck house is closed and it’s not going to be open all day”, whimpered Fluffy. Then with a higher pitch whine he went on, “I’ll starve, that’s what I’ll do, just starve”. “Yes I can see that could be a problem, but why do you think that the chuck house is not going to open for breakfast”, asked Wiggles. “Well for one thing the door is closed and there is a big sign that says closed”, whined Fluffy. “If the pitch of his whine gets any higher my ears are going to pop, thought Wiggles. In an attempt to figure out what Fluffy was saying and to get his hearing back Wiggles asked, “and just where is this sign you’re talking about”? Pointing over his shoulder Fluffy mumbled, “Right there on the locked chuck house door”. Wiggles walked up the steps to the chuck house porch and then on forward until his beak was pressed against the sign on the door. Now he could read the notice that had caused Fluffy to panic. “Yep, you are right Fluffy. It says right here that the chuck house will be closed all day. It states that it is due to some kind of a plumbing problem. But it also says in small print that food will be served over in the apple orchard next to the barnyard all day today and ever one should get there early before Fluffy eats everything”, Wiggles said with a little chuckle. Fluffy jumps up and asked, “Did it say that about me”? “Naw, I just made that part up about you”, laughed Wiggles. “It does sound like there is a real problem, pipes busted, sink leaking and water coming out of the stove”, remarked Wiggles. As Wiggles walked back over the porch steps, Fluffy pronounced, “Anything to do with water is a sure enough problem”.
Just then there was a banging and a screech as the chuck house door began to squeak open. Once fully opened, there stood little Benedict Arnold mouse, the head chef of the chuck house. In his normal high pitch voice Benedict said, “Hello boys. Are you going to just sit around or will you go over to the apple orchard for breakfast?” Not waiting for another invite Fluffy replied with, “I'm off to where the food is.” With that Fluffy was on a dead run.
Wiggles ask Benedict, “How is the repair coming along?” “Well”, answered Benedict, “Squirrel, the maintenance man told me that most everything is about done except the water coming out of the stove. This seems to be puzzling him. Guess he never seen a stove with running water before.” “Oh well”, said Wiggles, “think I will head over to the orchard before Fluffy eats everything up.”
My tiny minds eye has never seen a stove with running water either.
Continued… (Maybe).
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