Thank you for reading my blog today. I hope you are having a really good day.
Every family has someone who is always cutting up, playing jokes on the others and always running off doing the unexpected. For us it's Robert Q. Rabbit, my older brother. Father always told us to stay away from the little critter with the white stripe down his back. He didn't tell us why; for him, it was enough that he told us not to do it, and he expected us to obey. But sure enough, Robert Q. had to know why. So one day while we were out playing, there, at the edge of the field, was one of those black critters with a white stripe down his back. "Let's go see what this is", said Robert Q. "No" I said, "father said to stay away from him." "Well, I'm going over to see what he's all about" said Robert Q, and off he went. When he got close to the critter he started poking him with a stick " Look", he yelled " he can't hurt us, he's no bigger than we are". Just then the critter turned around, raised his tail and squirted something all over Robert Q., who immediately started yelling, crying, rubbing his eyes and nose and rolling around on the ground like he was trying to rub something off his fur.
And he was trying to do just that. Robert Q had discovered a skunk, and I mean really discovered a skunk. I didn't want to get near him, he smelled so bad, so I made him walk way behind me -- but even then he was smelling up the whole forest.
I guess we ought to obey our parents, even when we aren't exactly sure why. After all, if we don't obey we might just run into a skunk.
Keep your chin up!
Robert P. Rabbit