Last Spring

Chapter Two

I was riding along the dirt road on my donkey. We have been traveling miles only seeing grass, fields, animals, and barns. Sometimes I wish I didn't do what I did today. I didn't realize what I had till I didn't have it anymore. Why was I so stupid to go cow tipping?

Traveling for a long time, I had a lot of time to myself. I began to think about my life and how I should start again. Maybe looking for a new job and trying to find a place to live?

I began to search, and after a while I found nothing. However, when the donkey got me to the end of the dirt road, there was a tree nearby with a newly looking paper with a nail hammered into it.

"I wonder what that sign says?" I said in my head. I got off my donkey and tied him up to the nearest tree. Then I walked over to the tree with the piece of paper. I ripped it right off and began to read.

It read: Work needed in factory! Needing men no women! Strong and hardworking. Need full time. Building 753 by the local drug store. Thank you!

"That sounds suspicious, why would someone advertise something so sexist!" I mumbled under my breath. "Who would want to work for someone who wants them to work full time? That means you would have no life!"

I crumbled up the piece of paper and threw it on the ground, then stomped on it till it was in a million piece. I went up to my donkey and un hitched him. I rode him over to the piece of paper and he took a poop on it, and flies immediately came and started flying around.

"Good donkey! Nobody needs to work for a company like that!" I say riding my donkey down the road. I don't like driving on actual roads, so I'm taking the green road.

Through the grass I care upon an old rickety barn, which looked more like a shack. When I arrived there, I looked around to see if it was abandoned, and it was.

I could tell it was because you can look over and see where the old wooden house was, in a pit of ashes now.

"Must of been burn't down." I say to myself and my donkey. I looked through the barn, seeing nothing but hay and stalls.

"Donkey, I think we are gonna live here for now. It's a pretty nice barn, I can build a house on this ground right by it." I say.

I put the donkey in one of the stalls and gave him some hay. In the trough there was already some water. I petted the donkey and left to go get some dinner.

I looked among the field of tall grass and saw some woods beyond yonder. I began to ran there with my knife in my pocket. I ran for a while when I arrived at the neck of the woods, and I sat down by a rock to catch my breath and also to listen to anything animals around.

I was gonna have to find something small, since I only had a small knife to do the trick. Maybe finding a rabbit, squirrel, or a bird or something.

Waiting for some time, I heard something from the near by bushes. I gently get up and carefully walk over to the bush without stepping on any leaves. I peek into the bush when I screamed, because a snake jumped out at my face.

But that was my chance, I grabbed my knife and before the snake got away, I grabbed the end of its tail and brought it closer.

"Ouch! Stupid snake, ya just bit me!" I say grabbing the knife and stabbing it. Less than a minute the snake was dead.

"I gonna have roasted snake tonight!" I sat clicking my heels. The knife in my pocket and the snake in my hand, I began to run, across the entire field to the property I would call my barn.