My name is Avia.
I am a young Bunny Rabbit, I have a soft and fluffy gray coat, white cotton
tail and long ears that are pink inside.
One day I was walking through the woods, on my way to school, when this
big red squirrel said to me. Where are you going so fast?
I said to school
and he responded, why? I said, to learn things. He said, like what, and I
replied good things and how to avoid the bad things. He replied, I know all that stuff and I
didn’t have to go to school to learn it. And now I have more time for fun
things, like playing in the trees and setting in the sun or shade, whatever I
want to.
I eat all day
long and gathered food for the cold winter months, when you can’t find anything
to eat under the snow. At night, I curial up in my nest, with a couple of
cuties to keep warm.
Besides, he said:
when you go to school, you have to learn all the other stuff that you will
never use. Why don’t you come and play with me and I will teach you all that
you need to know. I said to him, it must be nice to be a Squirrel and play all
day long, He said; there is no better way to live than that.
I continued on my
way to school, along with all the other kids. The teacher taught us how to
spell and how to add and subtract and do other things with numbers, like
dividing and working with fractions. I’ll bet that old squirrel can’t do any of
that stuff.
We learned about
what life was like in the early years and how people had to go through hard
times. Learning new stuff made it easier to do things and do them better. And
how to make things last longer and taste better. And by keeping clean, I
smelled better and was healthier. And I don’t have to curial up in a cold old
nest with another smelly old squirrels, all winter long. When I go to school, I
can have fun and play the whole year long.
One morning, a
year or so later, while on my way to school, I stopped to say “hi” to my old
friend, the old Squirrel. I was told he no longer lived there, the lady
squirrel told me, he had starved to death in that cold old tree nest last year.
I asked how old he was and the lady squirrel told me he was real old, he had to
be two or three years old. I said: that
was too bad and I was sorry to hear he had died, had he went to school, maybe
he would have lived longer and had a better life.
There were many
young squirrels running around and having fun and she said they were all his,
sons and daughters. I told her, she
should send them all to school and they will learn how to live better and
longer, she did, and I visited with them for many years to come. Now they live
to be six or seven years old, is that old for a Squirrel?
By: Ben R.
July, 2014
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