Wolf Story
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This irresistible book is about: a father (intelligent, patient, an inventive storyteller); his five-year-old son Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories); and a story. It is a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and is spun into soap opera proportions over subsequent bedtimes and Sund
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Wolf Story - William McCleery
Chapter 1
ONCE upon a time a man was putting his five-year-old son Michael to bed and the boy asked for a story.
All right,
said the man. Well, let me see. Oh yes. Well, once upon a time there was a girl with long golden hair and they called her Goldilocks.
No, no,
said the boy. "A new story."
A new story?
said the man. What about?
About a hen,
said the boy.
Good!
said the man. I was afraid you might want another wolf story. Well, once upon a time there was a hen.
The man stopped.
Go on,
said the boy. What are you waiting for?
What is a good name for a hen?
Michael looked very thoughtful. Make it that the hen’s name is ... Rainbow,
he said.
Why Rainbow?
asked the father.
Because,
said the boy, he had all different colored feathers.
He?
said the man.
She,
said the boy.
All right,
said the man. But you understand that there is no such thing as a hen with all different colored feathers.
The man did not like to tell his son things that were not true.
I know, I know,
said the boy. Go on.
And the man continued: Once upon a time there was a hen. She was called Rainbow because her feathers were of many different colors: red and pink and purple and lavender and magenta—
The boy yawned. —and violet and yellow and orange ...
That will be enough colors,
said the boy.
And green and dark green and light green ...
Daddy! Stop!
cried the boy. Stop saying so many colors. You’re putting me to sleep!
Why not?
said the man. This is bedtime.
But I want some story first!
said the boy. Not just colors.
All right, all right,
said the man. Well, Rainbow lived with many other hens in a house on a farm at the edge of a deep dark forest and in the deep dark forest lived a guess what.
A wolf,
said the boy, sitting up in bed.
No, sir!
cried the man.
Make it that a wolf lived in the deep dark forest,
said the boy.
Please,
said the man. Anything but a wolf. A weasel, a ferret, a lion, an elephant ...
A wolf,
said the boy.
Well, all right,
groaned the man, but please don’t sit up in bed. Put your head on your pillow and shut your eyes.
O.K.,
said the boy. He turned his pillow over so that it would be cool against his cheek.
So,
said the man. In the forest lived a stupid old wolf, too tired to do any harm.
No!
cried the boy, sitting up in bed again. "The wolf is fierce! Terribly terribly fierce!!"
Haven’t we had enough stories about terribly fierce wolves?
cried the man.
No!
All right,
said the man. A terribly terribly fierce wolf with red eyes and teeth as long and sharp as butcher knives.
Mmmmmmm,
said the boy, putting his cheek on his pillow again and shutting his eyes.
I suppose you like that about the butcher knives,
said the man.
I love it,
said the boy. Go on.
"Well,