WORTH READING 20 Sep 2005

The Humming Bird

Once, long ago, there was a young boy who lived in a distant land called

Tandow. He was a cheerful lad with not a care in the world. A special
friend
had he, the little blue humming bird. Now this little boy don't have a
lot
of great friends, but the little bird and the boy were inseparable
friends.

The boy loved the little humming bird so, he built him a home. The bird
also
loved the boy and would follow him wherever he would go. As time went by

their love grew and grew.

Then one day the young lad met a pretty young girl in school. The girl
had
long blonde hair, blue eyes, and a cute little smile. This was about the

time of the biggest dance of the year. All the boy could think about was
how
he would love to take the girl to the dance. He gathered his courage all
day
and at the end of school confronted the girl and asked her to go with
him to
the dance. Now this young girl was very popular and felt she didn't want
to
be seen with the boy who cared for her so, she did not want to hurt his
feelings and so figured out a way to avoid saying no or yes. she told
the
boy if he bought her a red rose she would escort him to the dance. This
hurt
the little boy because he knew that in the land of Tandow there had
never
been a red rose, in fact the only roses in the land of Tandow were
white. On
the way home the boy kept mumbling to himself why couldn't she have
asked
for a white rose. There were hundreds of them in his front yard.

Feeling sorry for himself the boy didn't even notice his friend the
humming
bird fluttering above him. Now the bird loved him so, that it could tell

instantly the boy was troubled.

The bird hovered closer as the boy mumbled on home. Now the bird knew
why
the boy was so troubled.

The bird could not rest all the night long, it pondered all night, a
solution to the boy's problem. finally as the sun began to rise the
answer
to how the bird could help his best friend entered his mind.

The little blue humming bird flew to a rose bush and searched for a
large
rose with a stem bearing thorns directly above it. Now the bird chose a
thorn and with all the power in his wings cast his small body against
the
sharp thorn. It entered with great pain, as the tear drops of blood fell

upon the white petals of the rose.

Now as the boy was ready for school, as he left the house he saw a red
rose,
he could hardly believe it, he ran to the bush and plucked the red rose.
In
his excitement he failed to notice the lifeless little body that lay
below
the bush in a puddle of blood. Happy as could be, he began with his red
rose
on his way to school. Before he got there some other boys playing
football
in a field called to him and asked him to come and play. His first
thought
was, no he had something more important to do. But they begged him and
said
they really needed him to even the teams. He looked at the rose, then
them,
then back at the rose. He said to himself. Ah!!! she didn't really want
to
go with me anyway. Then throwing the rose down the boy went and played
football.

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