Little Leaf and her
brother wrapped some meat in leaves and headed out. They walked away from the
cliff face into the forest on the well-worn track back to the cave.
Little Leaf heard
something rustling in the bushes.
“Sssss” she hissed
and they both stood perfectly still.
The rustlings got
louder and both Little Leaf and Rock Thrower crouched down grabbing their
spears and raising them.
Out of the bushes
staggered this little baby mammoth dragging one front foot. She stood in front
of the children wide eyed with fear, then slowly crumbled exhausted to the
ground.
The kids were not
sure what to do. The animal was just a baby. They stood there looking at each
other.
Little Leaf walked
over and started patting the baby and scratching its ears and little trunk. The
little mammoth sniffed at Little Leaf with her trunk. Little Leaf went and got
some grass and held it up to the baby mammoth, and it ate the grass. Both the
kids played with the baby. Very soon the baby mammoth managed to get up so the
kids took it to the stream so the baby could drink. They played in the stream
and the baby showered them with water. They loved every minute of it.
Then they started walking home, back to the cave on
the side of the hill. And the baby mammoth followed the children right back to
the cave. As they climbed up the path to the cave mommy and grandma came
running down to meet them. And they stopped dead in their tracks when they saw
the baby mammoth following the children. The baby mammoth had nowhere to go so
it just followed the kids. They ran to their mommy and the baby came also. And
the kids told their parents what had happened. Then they both said “Can we keep
it, please?” The other children came down from the cave and started playing
with the mammoth.
Article by © Peter Legrove 2014, at www.animalsdinosaursandbugs.com
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