A boy's work

[On a snowy New Year's Day:]



Hey, MOM!



I'm building a fort, and it's going to be GIGANTIC!!



It will be very tall, up to the attic. Do you want to see my expilament?


I'm gonna make a weensy teensy door so Tess can get in to her camping wood.


Look, I can climb up, and put my feet up here and my hands up here, and I haven't done that before. It's like a mountain!



And you can actually watch me climb down to get back to my work. My work is called picking up wood, and throwing down big wood and little wood, little barks and big barks, for next days.



I told Mom she could borrow a little piece of oak to burn.


Tess likes kitty food and she heard a little tiny "kerplop" and she found some kitty food.



Malcolm said to Tess, "I'm gonna have one more," and that helps their brain think better.



And they said I could have one--three--FOUR more pieces of kitty food.


I have this chain saw for emergencies, for wood that is not cut.



And I'm gonna get back to my wood box fort before someone closes the doors.