The Grasshopper and the Eagle – Part XX
Mar 15th, 2010 | By Tom Sheehan | Category: Fables Fairy Tales and Folklore, Series | 193 viewsThe green grasshopper and the black eagle met at the edge of a great river.
The eagle said, “Do you notice how much bigger my wings are than yours? They must be a thousand times bigger.”
The grasshopper, in his manner, said, “Are you counting both wings in that equation? I can only look at one of them at a time. They are so far apart I wonder what can hold them together.”
The eagle, grumbling, put in his place by the weakest voice imaginable, said, “What is that you are eating, that little portion?”
“This is my holiday celebration meal. It is all I can handle.”
“What celebration is that?’
“Why this is the night before the worst storm of the year. Where will you hide during the storm?”
“I hide from no storm,” the eagle said with great pride. “I can ride out any type of weather.”
When the storm hit, blinding snow driven by a fierce wind and the temperature plummeting, the grasshopper was deep in a crevice in the warm earth and was saved from the savage storm.
In three days the grasshopper peeked out from his hiding place and saw the glowing sun and basked in the sweet rays of sunshine. He asked the turtle if he had seen the big eagle, and the turtle said, “The last I saw of him he was heading south.”
Vacations, as one might realize, are sometimes planned on the spot.
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About Tom Sheehan: Bio note: Tom Sheehan’s books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, from Press 53; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, from Pocol Press. His work is currently in new anthologies from Press 53, Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak: Warriors, Veterans, Family and Friends Writing the Military Experience. He has 14 Pushcart nominations, the Georges Simenon Award for fiction, a story in the Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and a nomination for Best of the Web 2010. His novels include Vigilantes East, Death for the Phantom Receiver and An Accountable Death. His poetry books include The Saugus Book; Ah, Devon Unbowed; and This Rare Earth & Other Flights. He served in Korea, 1951-52, with the 31st Infantry Regiment. He has many Internet and print magazine appearances, has appeared in 11 print issues of Ocean Magazine, has 134 cowboy stories on Rope and Wire Magazine, recorded works in Qarrtsiluni, work in Rosebud, Lady Jane Miscellany, Perigee and Writing Raw, etc. He helped co-edit and issue two books on his hometown of Saugus, MA, sold 3700 to date of 4500 printed ( 842 total pages in the two books) with color sections, text, timelines, nostalgia and history, all proceeds for Saugus High School graduates via the John Burns Memorial Scholarship. Tom’s web site is at http://www.milspeak.org/TomHome2.htm. |
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