Donkey Chronicles

Dear Diary,

I have decided to do an IMPORTANT THING today.  When I get my hero cape, I will go to the most magic animal to ask her to make my cape magic.  I will go to find the UNICORN!  I know she will help me because she is almost like a donkey, but she has a horn on her head.  Oh Diary, I would not like a horn on my head, because I could not eat grass and dandelions if I had a big horn sticking out of my head.  I am sorry for the Unicorn, even if she is magic.  If she were a donkey, she would not have a horn on her head and she could eat grass and dandelions all day long like me.

Oh Diary, I am hungry.  I will wait to go find out about the Unicorn until after I eat.

That is all.

Goodbye from Burrito 
 

Dear Diary, 

Today is a very special day.  I have my cape on!  Yes, my, sweet, good Faith finished my cape last night and in the morning when I woke up, there was my cape neatly lying across a hay bale!  Faith tied it on for me today and it is lovely!  When I run fast, it flaps behind me like a big wing, and I can almost feel myself flying!

I will go find the Unicorn today and ask her to make my wonderful red cape MAGIC!  Then, I will fly and be a TRUE HERO!

That is all.

Goodbye from Burrito 
 

Dear Diary, 

I did not have a chance to go find the Unicorn today, because I was busy--busy being a TRUE HERO!  Yes, I was a true hero without my beautiful cape being magic yet!

I will tell you the whole story, oh Diary.  It all started like a normal day.  Sunny and I were eating lovely oats that Faith had given us: lovely, crunchy breakfast oats.  When, I heard a loud BANG! and all the chickens started shrieking!  Sunny jumped, and then ran out of the barn to look.  I finished my breakfast quickly, and then I ran out to look, too.  We did not see anything but Faith's silly hens running around cackling loudly.  But, oh Diary, there was something happening, because Sunny could smell DANGER.  Sunny was snorting and charging around, but I was INVESTIGATING.  I listened carefully and smelled the air and I looked carefully all around the barn and the corral surrounding the barn.  There was a funny smell, and I wondered, "is this the smell of danger?"  But, it did not smell like danger to me.  No, it smelled like Jemma, but not Jemma.  And feathers, too.  I smelled feathers from those cackling, silly hens.

I followed my nose tracking the smell that was like Jemma, but not Jemma, and it led me a long way.  I walked all the way to the pond, and around the pond to where the trees grow and there are thick blackberry vines with lovely berries on them.  Here, oh Diary, I had a little snack because I was thinking so hard.  I could still smell the smell that was like Jemma, but not Jemma, and as I reached for a big, juicy berry that had dropped on the grass, can you guess what I saw?  I saw a bushy brown TAIL.  SOMEONE was hiding in under the blackberries; someone who smelled like Jemma, but not Jemma!

Oh, Diary, what could I do?  I BIT that tail!  What a big YELP I heard!  And Jemma heard that big yelp, too.  She came running from the porch, her mouth open and barking all the way.  The tail belonged to a stranger-dog, oh Diary!  A stranger-dog that was STEALING EGGS from Faith's hens!  The stranger-dog was CAUGHT by ME!  Jemma yelled at that dog, "Don't you ever come back, you THIEF!"  But the stranger-dog didn't move, he just kept yelping!  Oh Diary, he was STUCK in the blackberries!  His coat was so thick and curly that the blackberry vines with their prickles held him tight like he was in JAIL.  Jemma started laughing, "Ho, ho, serves you right, you criminal!"

Faith came and got the dog out by cutting a hole in my lovely blackberries and untangling the stranger-dog.  He was very grateful and immediately repented of his evil deeds.  He said his name was Scuff.  Scuff said he stole the eggs because he was hungry.  Faith gave him some of Jemma's food, and Jemma was NOT HAPPY, but did not say anything.  She just gave the stranger-dog a LOOK.  A BAD LOOK that said, "This better be the last time I see you around here!"  Scuff gulped up all the food and ran off down the road.  Jemma said Scuff was lying about being hungry, and that Scuff lived a little ways down the street at a big house and had lots of food.  She said that from now on she and I were PARTNERS in chasing off any stranger-dogs that came by.

PARTNERS!  HA!  It was I, BURRITO THE HERO, that found the thief and BIT his tail! 

Sunny was very pleased with me--so pleased that he let me eat his leftover breakfast oats.  The hens, oh those nice hens, they know who the hero was!  They all came to thank me and they called me, SIR!  "Thank you, Sir!"  They said to me, BURRITO THE HERO!

That is all.

Goodbye from Burrito