Adventures in the Everglades

Sammy the alligator walks around in his new habitat, the Everglades.  He wants to be with his family but doesn't know exactly where they are.  But he feels they are close by since he seems to remember what is around him, a sense of deja-vu as an alligator might say. 

He swims in the murky water around him.  Occasionally he goes on land to sun himself and walk a bit.  He sees little animals playing back and forth.  It looks so fun!  He laughs as they laugh. 

And strangely he meets this little bunny rabbit.  The bunny is running around and running around.  And Sammy says to the bunny rabbit, "Hi, what are you doing?"  

The bunny says "Oh hi! Hi.  I'm playing Hide and Seek with my friends."  

And Sammy says, "How do you play Hide and Seek?"  

She says, "Well you hide and then they have to go and find you.  And I have to find a place to hide."  And Sammy says, "Well, could I help you?"  

And the little bunny rabbit says, "Well do you have a place, a place to hide?   Hey, what's this big thing here?  

"Oh, oh! That's my mouth", said Sammy.

"You're mouth?!  But it looks so big!"

 

And Sammy opened it wide and said, "Yes, it is big, but that's my mouth."  

 

And then he closed it. And the bunny rabbit says, "You know I can hide in there.  They'll never find me in there!"  

And Sammy says, "Well, are you sure?  If they can't find you, what happens?"  

 

"Oh, then I win.  Then I win.!"  said the rabbit.

 

"What do you win?"  said Sammy.

 

"Well, I don't know, but I win!"  said rabbit.

So Sammy opens up his mouth.  He says, "OK, you can come in, and I'll close it as soon as you're comfortable."  

So the little bunny rabbit crawls in.  And she gets in the middle of Sammy's tongue and she says, "Ok, I'm ready." 

 

So Sammy closes his mouth.  And all the other bunnies are running around him.  "Where's Daisy the little rabbit?  We can't find Daisy.  We found everybody, but not Daisy."  
 

Daisy's mother hears the shouting and hops over.  

She says, "What do you mean you can't find Daisy?"

 

And they say, "We looked all over for her but we just can't find her. She wins but we can't even find her to tell her that she wins!"

  

And the mother rabbit sees this great big alligator sitting there quietly, and she says "Wait a minute!"  And she goes over to the alligator.  "Do you know where my little baby Daisy is?"

 

Sammy didn't say anything.

 

And she says, "Daisy are you in there?" 

And Daisy says, "Yeah, Mommy I'm in here.  I'm in here.  Did I win? Did I win?"

 

She says, "You sure did, but you better come out!"

 

"I can't come out right now, he's got to open his mouth."

 

So the mommy rabbit thumps on the Sammy's mouth "You open up here! You open up here!"

 

And she gets her foot and  thumps thumps thumps on the alligator's mouth.  And she thumps harder and harder and everyone is cheering her on. "Come on alligator, open up your mouth! Open up your mouth!"  

She thumped so hard that the fur from little Daisy got unstuck to the roof of Sammy's mouth. Sammy finally opened up his mouth and says, "I wanted to open up, but the fur was stuck in my throat. I don't eat rabbit!" 

"Oh thank you Mommy.  I won! I won! I won!"  says Daisy.

 

And the mother says to Sammy, "Shame on you!  Shame on you!  You scared me, and you almost ate my baby."

And everybody cheers Daisy the rabbit.  "She won! She won!"

And Sammy walks away.  Turned down again.  Depressed and unhappy.  And he walks and walks, and he says, "I'm going to look for my family.  They must be somewhere." 

  

As he walked, he got really tired.  All of a sudden he stops, and he waited.  

 

Then he saw a man coming toward him with a white stick.  Tapping his stick along the ground trying to figure out where he was.  Then he sits on Sammy.  

Blump.  

 

The man says "Oh this feels good.  This is a nice rock to sit on.  This is a nice rock."  

And Sammy felt tied down to the ground.