More Trouble in the Jungle

By John Gargus

This is the second of four stories I wrote for my grandsons Dylan and Kemper while they were students at the Montessori School of Rome in Georgia. Their mother, Miss Dolores, was a school teacher there. She read the stories to her class as a treat to her young students who heard Dylan boast that his Papa wrote stories for him. This story about redemption and cooperation on the school grounds. Parents of students heard about these stories and enjoyed reading them.
Little Gorilla MEG is too small to join others and is playing by herself in the sand by the Watermelon Rock. Giraffe ASHLEY comes to see what she is doing and her thin leg punches through a hole in the sand to an empty space below. She jumps back and Hippopotamus MOUSS comes to see what is happening. As he steps closer to MEG, the surface cover for an ancient well gives away under his weight and she falls through to the water 10 feet below. Everyone panics. Little MEG is not injured, but she cannot swim. MOUUS is a good swimmer, so he tries to coach her about how to stay afloat. As before, Hyena RICK comes up with a solution. They summon SASS’s dad Python ZAZZ who is 20 feet long. He can reach down to MEG, but can’t pull her out without slipping down the well. MOUUS steps up to provide the solution. He provides anchor point for ZAZZ who wraps his neck around his foot and succeeds in pulling MEG out of the well. So MOUSS, who had shamed himself in the first story becomes a collaborative hero who had redeemed himself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664183452

John Gargus

John Gargus is a military veteran with distinguished service in the Air Force Special Operations Forces. He began lecturing and writing articles about the Vietnam War during his post military civilian employment as a school district director for maintenance. He authored a chapter on the history of the Air Force Special Operations for the book on The U.S. Special Operations Forces and also wrote two books on The Son Tay Raid – American POWs in Vietnam Were Not Forgotten in 2007 and Combat Talons in Vietnam – Recovering a Covert Special Ops Crew in 2017. He wrote fi ve stories for his grandsons which are illustrated and published by Xlibris. He was born in Slovakia and writes articles about his childhood in his native language for publication in a quarterly magazine of his native village.

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