Hay Baggins: The Little Scarecrow Boy

By Santa Niclaus

The Little Scarecrow Boy comes to life in the light of the Harvest Moon when a little spark of life essense comes over Hay's forehead and passes through the fibers of burlap from which Hay's head is made.
He suddenly awakens and he leaps off of the workbench only to fall in a heap on the floor.
That's when he meets Marie Mare and Horace Horse and gets his name - Hay Baggins! All because Horace sees him as just a big bag of hay!
The he meets Pyro Pig, Robbie Rooster and Angus McBull and they begin a journey throughout Ole' MacDonald's Farm asking everyone they meet if they have any idea how to wake up Hay's Mom and Dad - Mrs Scarecrow and Mr Scarecrow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Dec 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466969193

Santa Niclaus

I've taken a few different creative writing courses as well as several English Lit classes at college level. I'm the father of 2 sons of my own. I've been a professional Santa for 15 years & have had great fun story-telling with the kids I've visited with as Santa. I have 3 other Santa books with Trafford Publishing - A Letter From Santa - Dear Christian Child A Letter From Santa - When I First Met the Easter Bunny A Letter From Santa - Even the Easter Bunny Knows A Letter From Santa - "The Original" I self published in my 3rd year as Santa, having 5000 copies printed by a local printer. They were well received.

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HAY BAGGINS

The little scarecrow boy.

Copyright applied for July 2002 by L.A. MacDonald, Sr.

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Printed in the United States of America.

The Narth Pole. Buford, GA.

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© Copyright 2012 Santa Niclaus.

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ISBN: 978-1-4669-6918-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-6919-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: pending

Trafford rev. 11/27/2012

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Dedicated to my devoted and darling wife, Teresa,

without whose unwavering belief in my talents

this book may never have come about.

CONTENTS

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

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Introduction

Ever hear of Ole’ MacDonald’s Farm?

Well if you haven’t then let me tell you all about it, especially the latest farm news!

And if you have heard of Ole’ MacDonald’s Farm I bet you haven’t heard the latest! It’s exhilarating news! It’s about how a scarecrow boy came to life! Really it’s quite shocking, but fun!

It all started one day when ole’ Luke, that’s ole farmer MacDonald’s first name, went out to check his hay field. He noticed that the scarecrow hanging on its post in the middle of the field had sprouted grass from out of the front of its jacket. Luke smiled as he thought of how the grass seed in the scarecrow’s stuffing must have gotten wet and sprouted in the spring. The grass which grew from the scarecrow looked better, with a richer golden color, than the grass of his field. He even noticed that some of the grass had gone to seed, and the seeds had fallen to the ground. It too had grown, turned brown and had gone to seed. The poor scarecrow had produced a bumper crop of hay! But the pitiful scarecrow looked so insufferable that Luke decided to take her down and bring her to the barn for repairs. What? Didn’t I mention that the scarecrow is a female?

Well, she’s definitely a female! That was Mrs. Ole’ MacDonald’s idea. Teresa knew they already had a man scarecrow watching over the corn field, so she felt that it was only fair that a woman scarecrow kept watch in the hay field. Mrs. Scarecrow wore her old clothes and now Teresa would have to donate more old stuff to the needy scarecrow. Mrs. Scarecrow’s clothes were ruined by the vegetation growing from and through them. Her jacket had literally burst from the bounty of her harvest.

Now Luke is an old-fashioned farmer but he was not without modern conveniences and so he called Teresa on his cell phone and asked her to meet him at the barn. He told her what had happened and asked her to bring Mrs. Scarecrow some new, old clothes even if it meant he had to take his wife shopping later. Teresa agreed happily and met Luke at the barn with a big bag of her old clothes. For Mrs. Scarecrow they’d be brand new.

Teresa gasped when she saw how the weather and vegetation had ravaged the scarecrow! Oh my goodness! she cried out. She’s grown a bale of hay!

Luke laughed and said, Yeah, and she looks badly in need of medical attention too!

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What kind of instruments do you use when operating on a scarecrow? asked Teresa. She had a rather comical look of perplexity on her face.

Why, pruning shears, a rake, and a knife to cut off her old clothes, he replied and then added coyly, and some twine to sew her up with, of course!

Then the pair began working on the scarecrow using the pruning shears to cut off the stalks of grasses and the rake to keep cuttings cleaned up into a neat pile. A pile which rapidly grew to waste high beside Mrs. Ole’ MacDonald! When Mrs. Scarecrow’s figure had once again been sculpted to return to her prior form, Luke began cutting her old clothes off. Soon it became apparent that the roots of the grass that had grown from inside her had also intertwined throughout her stuffing. Her stuffing was no longer loose because of it, but now had the permanent form of a body. This made it quite easy for the MacDonald’s to redress her and return her to her debatable former beauty. Well, as scarecrows go, I guess she was quite ravishing!

Well! I really think she looks quite good after what she’s been through Ole’