HERE'S A RITIN FRUM OLD BEAR
FOR OCTOBER 1998
Hi, evrybudy! This is Old Bear ritin 2 U agin and kan U hear the skary musik? It's sumpn kalled Peter and the Woof that was rit by Mr. Profovicf and it's about a little boy named Peter who goes walkin 1 day in the woods and runs into this big hungry woof who wants 2 eat Peter up. Well, I don't no zactly how Peter did it but he triked the woof and didn't get eat up. The woof got real mad cus Peter got away so he went to where an old lady named Gramma lived and ate her up instead. That made him reel sleepy so he put on gramma's sleepin clothes and went 2 sleep in her bed. Purty soon after that Peter's gud frend Red who always wore sumpn kalled a ridin hood cum 2 visit her gramma bringin a basket of food but didn't no it wus the woof in her gramma's bed. Well, Red almost got eat up by this big woof but triked him reel gud and pushed him in a oven or down a well, I forget which it was, and he never did eat no one agin.
Here's a pitcher of Red in her ridin hood meetin a woof in the forest. There sure must have been a lot of woofs bak in those days cus seems lyke jist abowt everybudy who went walkin in the forest met a woof.
There shure are sum skary stories in what are called fairy tales for childrun. I guess that's why they are kalled Grimm's Fairy tales.
October is a purty busy month cus there are 4 reel speshul days in it. The furst special day is on Munday the 12th and it is kalled Columbus Day. Mr.Christopher Columbus was an old timey Italian sailor man who borrowed sum money frum the queen who run a playce kalled Portugal and bought 3 little boats and hired sum men 2 help drive the boats. This was way bak in 1492 when he sailed the oshun blue 2 get 2 Asia. But wen he got there he sed, you know, this don't luk lyke Asia; it luks more lyke America. Sew he marked a big X on his kalendar and sed frum now on this is goin 2 be kalled Columbus day. I don't know if he ever give the Queen of Portugal back the money she loaned him.
Tuesday, October 20 is the speshul day wen we R goin 2 ryde on the Amtrak train 2 Ilnoyse 2 visit my gramma and my Aunt Mary. That's shure goin 2 be fun. My Aunt Mary's birthday is a reel speshul day on October 30th sew maybe we will be there 2 help her have a party. I shure hope sew cus I lyke birthday parties.
Another speshul October day is Sunday the 25th and U better not forget it cus that is wen sumpn kalled Daylight Savins time is over with and u gotta fix ur clocks to match up with the sunshine. You can remember which way 2 change them by recitin this rule: SPRING, forward; FALL, bak. That's a purty gud rule but if U don't know wat season it is, then I guess u r in truble.
I don't reely understand wat daylight savins tyme is but my man gets sort of mad everytyme he has to go around and change all his watches and clocks and then sumtymes forgets 2 du the VCR one and gets real mad when he don't get his program. He sez sumpn lyke "if God wanted daylight savin time he would have moved the sun!"
Of course the last speshul day in October is Halloween that cums on the last day of the month. That's wen here in Dallus all the little kids cum 2 our door lookin lyke witches or vampires or klowns or sum tv person and hollerin Trik or Treat and wantin Kandy in their sacks. My man sez he gets annoyed with all these kids cumin but I don't think he reely duz cus he always buys the kinds of kandy he lykes so he kan eat sum before the childrun cum.
Every year my man tells me the story about how when he wus a purty big kid he and sum frends went out trik or treetin and at one house a man sed 'Oh, it's a trick you want! Well, I'll trik you!" and called the police man who took my man and all his frends 2 the jaill house. They didn't get put in a cage thing but had 2 sit and wait for their mommas or their daddys 2 cum get them. He sed he wusn't skared but I think he wus, jist a little, that he might get put in a cage
My man always tells me another story that is a purty gud story that happened on a Halloween wen we were both reel little and living in a reel big house. Sum boys were goin arownd duing sumpn kallin soapin windows and turnin over things and being sort of mean. Well, wen my grampa heard them cumin he got up on the porch roof with sum fire crackers that he had saved frum 4th of July Day. Jist about that tyme my gramma went to anser the telephone. Well, my man's daddy started throwin fire crackers down at the boys and one of them who had been lukin in a window hollered reel loud sumpn lyke "Run! Run! Mrs. Sage is calling the police and Mr. Sage is shooting at us.! That's a purty funny story.
Well, I guess that's all I know about what's goin on in October. My man sez that we won't be cumin bak frum Ilnoyze until November sew I guess I won't have a ritin 4 u until after I get bak. I'll think reel hard abowt wat 2 rite wile we r gone.
U can go reed my man's magazine or see sum of my old ritins or send me a letr jist by clickin on one of these pitchers.
