Sammy Causes a Stir

But let's back up a little bit.

The last we left Sammy he had wandered off after playing hide and seek with the bunnies.  Daisy's mother wasn't too happy that Daisy chose to hide in Sammy's big alligator mouth even though she won the game since no one could find her.

Sammy was shooshed away from the bunny group.  He was sad, tired and suddenly very hungry.  He had to sit awhile to rest and munch on whatever was around him. 

As he was sitting there shaded from the sun, he saw a man coming forward.  He had a white stick and was hitting it on the ground...tapping, tapping, tapping. And he knew from experience having been around a number of people when he lived with the little boy that the man was blind.  So he sat very still because he didn't want to scare the man with movement or chomping while he was eating.  He didn't even chomp, and he waited quietly.  And the man was tapping, tapping closer, closer to Sammy.

And Sammy waited patiently.

And then, the stick hit his back.  The cane that the man had was tapping, tapping all around Sammy's back, and he heard the man say, "Ah, what a nice place to rest.  I will rest here for a while. I'm so tired of walking."
 

So he sat on top of Sammy.

And Sammy felt uncomfortable.  He was worried.  He didn't want to frighten the man.  But he was tired and he wanted to go and swim in the water and go to the far end of the Everglades to meet his family. But he sat there patiently so he wouldn't frighten the man.  And the man says, "Oh this feels so good. So comfortable. I think I could sit here all day."
 

And Sammy thought to himself, "I can't stay here all day!  I have to get to my family."  And the sun was getting hotter and hotter and the man stayed and stayed and Sammy said to himself, "I just have to get to the water. My skin is dry. And I want to see my family.  I'll take the man to the other side of the water and maybe there he'll get off and continue walking."

So Sammy went into the water and he floated around, swimming, swimming. And the man says, "Ah! What a cool breeze."  And then the people on the shore saw the man sitting on top of the water.  They yelled, "Look at the man sitting on top of the water!  Look at him!"

So all the people on the shore were running, running. And one man says, "Look he's sitting on top of the water.  It's a miracle! It's a miracle! How can he do that?" 
 

And people were cheering and yelling and following him on the road.  And then some of the people got their motorboats and were going to go out to see the man floating on the water. 

First one motorboat, then two and now three headed into the water.  Sammy heard the motorboats and thought "Oh my goodness!  They're gonna kill me with their motorboats! I've got to get out of here!" So he swam faster and faster, and the boats came faster and faster, and people were yelling, "It's a miracle!  The man is sitting on top of the water! He's able to travel faster than our boats!"

So Sammy gets to the shore and he pops the man off of his back and starts walking quickly, quickly into the Everglades where the trees will hide him and he couldn't be seen.  
 

And they were saying to the blind man, "How did you do that?  You must be a special person with special powers!  You can sit on the water!"  
 

And Sammy hid behind some trees.  He said, "I am so glad he's saved, but he sure caused me a lot of suffering."  And poor Sammy was all scratched up from the trees and he didn't know where he was going when all of a sudden he hears, "Hi!  How are you?"  

 

Sammy whispered with some fright, "Who's there?"