Four Legs are Better Than Two - Gabriella

Four Legs are Better Than Two
By Gabriella Radina

As the sun drifted through the branches Sullivan Sloth woke up lazy as usual and climbed down the tree to do his morning business. Pongo the Parrot flew by happy and singing as usual stopped for a drink on a flower by Sullivan. “Beautiful day right Sullivan?” she chirped excitedly “Right Sullivan?” she said again “Oh yah beautiful day alright.” He said irritated that Pongo had disturbed my nap during my pee. “Well I’ll be off and tell Artie the Aardvark if you see him not to eat to many ants. I’m having a party a few days and with his stomach he will be as full as an overstuffed Thanksgiving turkey. Oh and thank you in advance.” Said Pongo “Okay.” Mumbled Sullivan. As he climbed back up his tree Artie ambled by slowly while looking for something to eat. ”Don’t eat to much Artie.” Sullivan said quietly glad that he could tell Pongo that he told Artie but that Artie didn’t listen. As Sullivan looked around for another feeding branch Sally the Slug s-l-o-w-l-y c-r-a-w-l-e-d by exclaiming “Their coming their coming the big men are coming.” “Sally who is coming? No one is coming besides Mitchelle the Monkey for the party. What is going on?” I finished “Big Men with big sharp looking things are cutting down trees.” Sally said still trying to catch her breath. “So what do you think?” Sally asks me. “Well? She says, “If my calculations are right it took you 21 days to get here so the Big Men are probably gone by now but thanks for the worrying.” I say knowingly no one ever listens to me but this I’ll be right I know I will, said Sally. Sally gloomily while slimly sliding off. “Hello? Sullivan?” said Mitchelle “What?” I say slowly opening my eyes “MITCHELLE!”I say more awake and forgetting I should do my business before I pee on my visitor. THUD! THUNK! BONK! “What was that?” Mitchelle asks, “I don’t know but I’ll go out and look.” I answer back thinking I’ll pee and check at the same time. As I climb down MY tree Sally s-l-o-w-l-y slides by “what’s the racket?”
Chico the cheetah said, “The Big Men are coming and cutting down trees” says Sally knowingly and giving me an I was right and you were wrong I told you so. “We have to build something for everyone to stay and make bricks to drop on these weeds,” says Chico roaming up and down out of breath.
Later that day everyone who lived in the jungle gathered and brought sticks, hay, leaves, and food of all sorts. As we worked together to make bricks the nrrrrrr of the chain saws got louder. Finally at6:00P.M. we were ready. All the animals in the jungle tried to look as normal as possible but when everyone is carrying 1-3 bricks it’s hard to look normal. Everyone went to their trees and waited and waited and waited until finally the workers approached Sullivan’s tree as the worker pulled the chain to start the saw the animals of the forest threw bricks and mud and that was the end of people cutting down trees now if we could only convince them Four Legs are Better Than Two.