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Gran was worrying her way around the house looking for what was needed to sew an eye back on Teddy's bear.
"Where are my scissors?" she fretted.
"Here they are looking out at the world," said Teddy, holding them up before his eyes.
"Where is the needle?" she fussed.
"The Magician has it," shouted Teddy, waving it like a wand.
"Where is the thread?" fumed Gran.
"Rolling under your sewing table," laughed Teddy, who had dropped the spool, chased it and caught it.
"Now where is the bear's missing eye?" Gran wanted to know.
Teddy looked around and around. "Missing," he sighed. And as he looked around some more Gran got ready to sew.
The end of the thread was frayed and she could not get it through the eye of the needle so she used the scissors to cut the end straight.
The piece of thread fell to the carpet and got lost in the pattern so Gran could not pick it up and put it tidily in the waste basket.
The piece of thread stretched, realized it was on its own and could have a life, stretched again and became Thread.
Just then one of the kittens dashed across the carpet on its way outdoors and Thread got stuck on its paw.
"Oooooo-eeeeeee!" shouted Thread and hung on for the ride.
Out in the backyard Teddy's sister was blowing bubbles and the kitten leaped high in the air trying to catch the rainbow globe. Bubble ducked out of the way of the sharp little claw but Thread was thrown from Kitten and landed on Bubble.
"Oooooooo-eeeeeeee, again," said Thread, making a face on Bubble. Bubble was too busy dodging tree branches to say anything.
After awhile Bubble stopped to rest on a leaf and Thread climbed gratefully down. It began to move carefully along a tree branch, heading for the ground, when a lady bug picked it up and began to fan herself with it.
"Hot day. Hot day. Hot day," murmured lady bug in time to her fanning. Thread kept quiet. He was getting dizzy.
Before his dizziness made him giddy Lady bug thought of her children, put him down, and flew away home.
Thread staggered around on the tree branch waiting for what next. What next was a gust of wind that played patty-cake with him until he reached out and held onto a cloud that looked like a dragon and became its tail.
"I already have a tail," the Dragon Cloud said when it noticed Thread.
"Well, then, since you look like a Dragon kite, I'll be your kite string."
The Dragon Cloud shook with laughter and the movement changed it from a dragon to a piece of apple pie with whipped cream and Thread let go.
It floated down and down and round and round.
"Thank goodness I'm not afraid of heights," thought Thread.
"I hope a bird doesn't mistake me for a worm," thought Thread.
"Oh what is my purpose in life," wondered Thread.
Just then it drifted in the window of Gran's house. Teddy was on his hands and knees looking under the chesterfield for the bear's missing eye. Gran was going through the junk drawer in the kitchen and the junk drawer in the living room and the junk drawer in the bedroom and the junk drawer in the bathroom looking for the bear's missing eye.
Thread perched on a lamp and pointed at the bear's missing eye which he could see perfectly. No body noticed him. He landed on Gran's hand and pointed frantically but she just picked him up and put him in the wastebasket.
With great difficulty he got himself out of the wastebasket and on the horn of an idea flew up and under Gran's nose. His frayed end tickled her and she threw back her head and sneezed. The missing bear's eye flew from the top of her head.
"Now I remember where I put it," said Gran. "In my bun for safekeeping."
She had sneezed Thread across the room and he stayed where he had landed , just another thread in the patterned wallpaper. He watched Gran sew the eye back on Teddy's bear and thought what a clever and useful Thread he had been.
Posted on July 23, 2007 at 06:38 AM | Permalink
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