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Kingdom of The Clouds
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The Little Fox Mary looked at Timothy with
a small smile. " I was actually born many miles away from here. I
was born in a city. My family had a home in the city park. The park
wasn't very large, but there was enough space for my family." "What was your family
like?" asked Timothy earnestly as he was very interested to hear this.
Mary began giggling, then laughing which made Timothy even more curious.
He begged her to tell him what was so funny. "Well, I actually
never knew my real mother and father. Two dogs raised me. I never
thought it was strange until now." Timothy was stunned. "You
were raised by dogs?" He asked in unbelief. Mary nodded and said,
"Yes
I was and they treated me like I was one of their own. I don't know what happened to
my parents. My mom and dad, excuse me, my dog mom and dad said that they found
me abandoned just outside the city along the side of a highway. They tried to track
my parents by smell, but the scent faded away before they could find them. So, they
took me into their care. "I
had a happy childhood though. When we were old enough to walk, The litter and
I spent our days exploring the city, chasing cats, and playing ball in the alleys.
Suppertime we'd return to the park for dinner. My dog parents were
strays, and had been their whole life. This made us strays too. As fun as life
was, being a stray was also dangerous. Everyday we had to watch out for cars,
dogcatchers, and other strays. It was even more important that we kept away from
other strays, because of me. Being a fox, I was actually viewed as food to other
dogs. They didn't understand our family. "I didn't like being
a fox when I was younger and wished i was a dog. I felt like a drag on my family.
They couldn't go to social events happening in the city, like the Howl Festival
during a full moon, Bone Bingo, or other various alleyway parties. If we went, there
would certainly be dogs trying to attack me. So my family stayed home and just
avoided other dogs. One
morning, my siblings and I were exploring a new area of the city. Mom and dad were
nearby searching for food in trashcans behind some of the restaurants. The place we
was exploring was a store parking lot. We ran around the parked cars
playing a rowdy game of tag. I was it and was chasing one of my sisters,
trying to tag her. She had out run me and was hiding somewhere. Then, i
thought I saw her paws on the other side of a car. An idea popped into my head that
since i was small enough, I could crawl underneath the car the paw i saw and cried
that she was it, but it wasn't my sister or any of other siblings. It was a strange
dog and he growled ferociously at me . I yelped in surprise and ran. This
was the beginning of a long chase. I was yelping for help and my siblings heard me.
they barked and chased after the stray, begging him to stop. I ran out
of the parking lot with the mean stray chasing me and my six siblings chasing him.
We ran down a street, into a neighborhood, through a playground, I managed to
squeeze under a fence into a backyard. However, the stray was too big and
couldn't follow. he tried to dig up the dirt to make the hole bigger, but he
realized it would have taken forever. I laughed at him and joked about how he
couldn't get to me. I pranced around on the green grass of the yard and shook my
tail at him. He let out a frustrated snarl. My siblings had fallen behind
during the chase and just then reached to where we was at. They stood a ways
behind the stray, relieved that I was safe. One of my sisters giggled at my jokes.
The stray spun around to face them. he barked at them savagely and began approaching
them. I stopped joking and told him to leave them alone and that it was me he was
after. He didn't listen. He chased them away and I couldn't see where they
went. As easy
as it was to get in the yard, it was much more difficult to get out. The fence was
in such a way that I could push underneath and get in from the outside but I couldn't get
out from inside. I was stuck in some person's back yard. I scurried along side
the fence, trying to find any other opening when suddenly I heard a door open and close.
I looked over at the patio and saw a little girl standing there looking at me.
That little girl would become my owner, Patty." Timothy was silent as he
thought about the story. "What
happened to your siblings?" he asked. "I
latter found out that my mom and dad came across the stray chasing their pups and put and
end to the chase. The stray couldn't scared two dogs like my parents."
Mary smiled with pride. Mary said , "A year after Mary found me, her
family moved out of the city to here, where i met you. You know that part of the
story already." After Mary finished her story, she and Timothy got up from the
porch on which they were laying. Together they walked to the barn.
They laid in the hay and spent time with their children and the horses who
were also in the barn. All of a sudden one of the hens from the chicken COOP came into the barn flapping her wings and squawking, " my egg is gone! my egg is gone!" one OF THE HORSES NEIGHED FOR THE HEN TO CALM DOWN, BUT SHE REMAINED IN A PANIC. "i THINK IT WAS THE SAME THIEF WHO STOLE THE SQUIRREL'S HARVEST OF NUTS AND timothy’s mom’s APPLES"
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