[The Brit's Blog]
My autobiography ( a work in progress)Up in the Attic
2007-05-01
I wrote this story when I was in fifth grade. This is only a portion of it. I will post more at another time.
"When are your eggs going to hatch Widow Thrasher?" asked Cassie Blue.
"Soon," Widow Thrasher replied as they sat on the parapet around the widow's walk looking for cotton to line their nest. Mrs. Blue and April hopped up with them. It was a beautiful, breezy spring evening.
"We'd better fly home now," chirped Mrs. Blue.
They all glided back down to the rooftop, where their nests were. Just then a wind-blown sparrow whizzed by sputtering,
"A storm is coming! A storm is coming! Fly to safety! Hurry!"
"What? A storm, my heavens!" cried April, in desperation. "How are we going to save the eggs?" Just then Cassie Blue had an idea. She motioned for the other birds to come to her , and twittered her idea quickly at them.
"We'll go and get that scrap of cloth I saw by the oak tree. We can put the eggs on it and each hold a corner of it as we fly to that gable window with the pane missing. We can hide in the attic of the house until the storm passes. "
"What a wonderful idea!" exclaimed Widow Thrasher, "Let's get started."
April flew to the oak tree and picked up the cloth in her beak. She flew back up and met the other birds at the two nests. She laid it down carefully on the mansard roof by the first nest. Mrs. Blue, Widow Thrasher and April carefully rolled the first of the tiny eggs onto the cloth. Finally they succeeded. They each picked up a corner and the egg rolled to one side. They changed positions and tired to save the egg from falling.
"Oh no!" screeched Widow Thrasher as the egg careened toward the ground below. "My egg!
Out of nowhere a blur of brown fuzz whizzed down the nearest tree and under the egg. The birds flew down to the ground and saw that a squirrel had caught the egg with his tail as a landing pad. In fear that the squirrel would whiz away with her egg, Ms. Thrasher said, " You stop where you are! Where is my egg? What are you to do with it? Give it back!"
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