The Big Red Apple E-Book

Stanley Mcqueen

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Stealing an Apple gets young Jake in more trouble than he bargains for. Young Jake learns a hard lesson and when he falls headlong from the Apple tree, and is caught by a forked limb, leaving him upside down tangling like a shirt on a cloth line. Will young Jake be saved from his unfortunate accident?

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Stanley Mcqueen

The Big Red Apple

Muddy fork short story

To My Editor Valerie ByronBookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

The big Red Apple

Mammy sends me and Arnold off to school every morning with an egg between a biscuit in our hands. It's a two-mile walk down the hollow to the little one-room schoolhouse we both attend, so we have to leave the shack before Pa's chickens flutter off their roosts in the barn.

The last miles we walk are in daylight, light enough for us to admire Mrs. Webb's apple orchard. That old widow is so stingy she'll never offer even a single apple from her trees. One morning, Arnold and I stopped near the orchard and those big red, juicy apples sure looked inviting. On one of the trees, near the very top, was a red, oversized apple, the biggest on the tree.

Arnold said longingly, "I sure would love to have that big shiny red apple. I can almost taste it from here in the Wagon Road."

He turned to me, drooling. "I swear, Jake, it's almost as if that apple can talk. Seems to me it's saying, 'Just think how I would taste in your mouth.'"

"Shut up," I tell my brother. "You're making me crave that big apple."

I consider the matter for a while. "It wouldn’t take much for me to climb that tree and retrieve that big apple."

"You know what mammy said about stealing," he warned. "A thief will end up in hellfire, to be tormented forever and forever.