Late one night, in a land far, far above the forty-ninth
parallel, and very, very close to where Santa Claus lives, a tiny snowflake fell
from a big, fat cloud. It drifted for a
long time through very cold air, missed an airplane flying through its path, avoided
an all-too-warm invitation from a rooftop chimney, and settled to the ground in
someone’s front yard.
The Littlest Snowflake didn’t know whose front yard it had
landed in, and really didn’t have much time to think about it, because a whole
bunch of his siblings and cousins were falling around and on top of him. Soon, enough of them had joined the Littlest
Snowflake that the entire neighborhood was two feet deep in new-fallen snow.
They spent the rest of the dark night visiting with each other, catching up on gossip and news,meeting new friends, and drifting into the open arch of a dog house. A whole passel of the snowflakes took turns jumping onto and sliding off of the slippery orange plastic wrapper of a newspaper. In general, the snowflakes had all kinds of fun that you would never guess snowflakes had during the night.
Some of the snowflakes that had landed on the branches of a
birch tree jumped onto a trampoline that was left outside. They bounced and bounced and had a wonderful
time.
Just as light began to draw an outline along the Chugach
mountain peaks to the east, the Littlest Snowflake heard a loud noise at the
end of the street. Around the corner
came a huge, noisy truck with a curved blade on its front. The wicked-looking truck snatched up all the
snowflakes that were still playing in the street.
The Littlest Snowflake was very, very afraid and very, very worried about his
new friends. Would he ever see them
again?
I remember this kind of story. I think they were put in the paper every week to make kids look forward to the paper coming. It also made them readers. The movie theaters did the same thing with continuing serials. You had to go every week or miss out on the full story. It is just how the comics are in the paper today.
ReplyDeleteOkay ... you have our attention, awaiting the next installment!! Hugs. Patti and Cap
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