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HAMBONES GIFT

 

 

HAMBONE

 

MY FRIEND SWEETPEA AND I HAD GONE TO THE T&P LAKE TO CAMP OUT FOR THE NIGHT.  SWEETPEAS DOG HAMBONE HAD GONE WITH US.  HAMBONE IS JUST AN OVER GROWN PUPPY WITH BIG FEET AND A WILD TAIL THAT NEVER STOPPED WAGGING. 

 

WHEN YOU PATTED HIM ON THE HEAD HIS TAIL WOULD WAG SO HARD THAT HIS WHOLE BUTT WAGGED.  HIS TONGUE WOULD HANG OUT THE SIDE OF HIS MOUTH AND HE WOULD SLOBBER ALL OVER YOU.  BUT YOU COULDN’T HELP BUT LIKE HIM.

 

IT WAS LATE EVENING AND WE HAD OUR CAMP SET UP ON A SMALL HILL OVER LOOKING THE LAKE.  WE HAD BUILT A FIRE PIT OUT OF ROCKS AND HAD A FIRE BURNING IN IT.  I WAS COOKING OUR SUPPER OF FRIED POTATOES WITH ONIONS IN THEM AND WHEN THEY WERE DONE I WOULD BREAK SOME EGGS ON THEM AND STIR THEM UNTIL THE EGGS WERE COOKED.

 

SWEETPEA WAS LYING ON HIS BED ROLL LOOKING UP INTO THE TOPS OF THE PINE TREES WE WERE CAMPED UNDER.  THERE HAD BEEN SOME FLYING SQUIRRELS PLAYING UP THERE AND HE WAS WATCHING THEM.

 

HAMBONE HAD BEEN DOWN BY THE LAKE SNIFFING AROUND TO SEE WHAT HE COULD FIND.  JUST LIKE ANY PUPPY HE WAS CURIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING.  THAT IS EVERYTHING BUT POSSUMS, BUT THAT IS A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

I HAD JUST BROKEN THE EGGS OVER THE POTATOES AND ONIONS WHEN HAMBONE CAME TROTTING INTO CAMP.  NEITHER SWEETPEA OR I WERE PAYING HIM ANY ATTENTION.  BUT HE HAD A GIFT FOR SWEETPEA THAT GOT OUR ATTENTION REAL FAST.

SWEETPEA WAS LYING THERE ON HIS BEDROLL ON HIS BACK WITH HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS HEAD AND HAMBONE TROTTED UP TO HIM AND LAID HIS GIFT ON HIS CHEST.  THE GIFT WAS A SNAKE AND WHEN SWEETPEA SAW THE SNAKE HE LET OUT A YELL AND JUMPED UP.

 

WHEN HE JUMPED UP HE BUMPED INTO ME AND I SPILLED OUR SUPPER ON THE FIRE.  THIS SCARED HAMBONE AND HE RAN OFF, HOWLING.  I DON’T KNOW WHERE THE SNAKE WENT, BUT HAMBONE MUST HAVE GONE HOME BECAUSE WE DIDN’T SEE HIM AGAIN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY WHEN WE WENT HOME.

 

AFTER SEARCHING THE CAMP SITE AND SHAKING OUT OUR BEDROLLS WE WERE SATISFIED THE SNAKE WAS GONE.  BY THIS TIME IT WAS DARK AND WE BUILT UP THE FIRE AND SAT THERE LOOKING INTO THE FLAMES.  WE DIDN’T HAVE ANY MORE FOOD WITH US SO WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO DO WITHOUT SUPPER.

 

I ASKED SWEETPEA WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO TO HAMBONE FOR PUTTING THAT SNAKE ON HIM?  AFTER SOME THOUGHT HE SAID HE DIDN’T GUESS HE WOULD DO ANYTHING.  HAMBONE WAS JUST GIVING HIM A GIFT AND JUST BECAUSE IT WAS A SNAKE HE DIDN’T KNOW THAT SWEETPEA WOULDN’T WANT IT.

 

WHEN THE FIRE BURNED DOWN TO COALS WE WRAPPED UP IN OUR BEDROLLS AND WENT TO SLEEP.  BUT BOTH OF US SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN THAT NIGHT.

 

                         

                      

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 2003

 

LOREN

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