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Introducing
Billy
Chocolate
By Delbert Blickenstaff
Know
what I really like?
Chocolate.
I like chocolate milk,
chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, and chocolate candy. If onions were covered
with chocolate I would
probably like them too.
I
usually eat what ever Mom fixes for us and don’t even
think about it. One
of our favorite
meals is meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy.
Mom usually makes a salad too and some
kind of dessert. Maybe
even chocolate pudding.
One
day at school we had a health class and our 2nd
Grade teacher said that we should eat fresh fruit and vegetables every
day to
stay healthy. She
also said that
drinking a lot of sugary drinks is bad for our teeth.
Oh well, I trust Mom to feed us the food
that’s
best for us, and I like everything except brussels sprouts.
Last
week Dad took us to a dinner in a log house.
Emily stayed with Grandpa and Grandma. There was a fire in the
fireplace and it was
cozy warm. Around
10 other people came
and some were dressed in early American clothes.
There were also Indians wearing feathers
in
their hair. They
told stories while the
rest of us ate. I
think they were
Shawnee.
The
food was different from what we usually eat.
We had venison, buffalo meat, pork,
turkey,
and salmon. There
were several kinds of
home make bread and coffee made from coffee beans that grew right there
on the
farm. We even had
chocolate cake. We
had too much to eat, and I don’t even know
what some of the food was.
One
Indian played his flutes and beat on his drum and
sang. Another told
stories about bears
and other animals. One
woman told about
their family life. She
even said that
some women became chiefs. I
didn’t know
that.
When
we got home we talked about how our clothes still
smelled like the smoke from the fireplace.
I’m glad that we don’t live in a log
house, but it was fun for one
evening.
Billy
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