Small world
So Jimmy, his mama want sugar to
bake him a pancake, so she send him to the store with a dollar for a sack of
sugar. But soon he come running
back. He got no sugar.
"Mama," he say,
"ain't no store. The street, she
just end past Auntie Louise trailer."
"Jimmy, go ask Auntie if she
have sugar," his Mama say.
Soon Jimmy come running back, with
a cupful of molasses. "Auntie out
of sugar," he say, "she send molasses."
So Mama stir up the molasses,
flour, and she see she have no egg.
"Run Jimmy, fetch me an egg
from the chicken house, so I can make you a pancake."
Jimmy, he run out the back door,
but he come right back. "Chicken
house gone," he say, "but they was one egg in the grass," and he
give it to her.
Mama crack the egg into the bowl
and she stir up the batter. She pour the
batter in the skillet. This will be one
fine pancake! But when she flip the
pancake, it land on the floor and roll out the door.
"Jimmy," Mama shouts,
"fetch me that pancake!" He
run out the door and down the road.
The pancake roll past the mimosa
tree and its pink fans hanging down, past
Auntie Louise trailer and her lilies, over the plank bridge, and Jimmy
run after. When he get to the other side
of the bridge the store be gone, but the pancake keep rolling and Jimmy keep
running. He running by the cow pasture
(the cow, she chewing her cud), and he see his house just there beside the road
in front of him, chicken on roof. The
pancake keep rolling past house and mimosa tree, and Jimmy, he run faster, for
to catch it. Bridge, cow (still
chewing), house (Mama in the doorway), tree, cow, house (Mama shouting),
tree. Pancake keep rolling and Jimmy
keep running. The road, she keep
ashrinkin', and pretty soon it be just Jimmy and the pancake, the road rolling
up behind his heels and he catch the pancake just before everything be
gone. Jimmy take a big bite. It the best pancake he ever have.
The end
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