Story Time
Bone Part 21
Thorn?
Yes, Fone Bone?
I want to thank you for sticking with me last night...I don’t know why those rat creatures were after me--
but they would’ve got me for sure if you hadn’t stood up to them!
Of course we stuck together! We’re friends, aren’t we?
Hurry up, now, kids! We’re here!
Well, well… It’s about time!
Hello, Lucius!
How you doing, Rosie? Was the road safe? I was worried about you?
The road was clear… except for your roadblock!
Oh! I got something for you! Here! I been saving it in my pocket all day!
Oh, aren’t you sweet!
...WELLL… I had a little extra time on my hands this morning...
...I got a couple of dead beats inside taking care of the customers--In fact, they look a lot like this little fellow you got here.
They do?!
Yo, Fone Bone!
Smiley Bone!
Yay! My little pal is safe!
Oh my gosh! I was so worried about you!
Aw, heck, I can take care of myself! I’m big! But you’re small, and you didn’t have anybody to look after you!
Hold me out, so I can take a look at you!
Do I look good?
You look good, man!
Where’s Phoney?
He’s right inside! I’ll call him out!
Now, just a minute! I don’t want everybody out here! Who’ll take care of the customers?
Let them go, Lucius! These boys haven’t been together for months!
Those boys owe me a lot of eggs, Rosie...
Oh, all right… Call him out! But then get back to work!
Thanks, you big lug!
Hey, Phoney! Come out! Fone Bone’s here!
So… once again small one… your friends have come to you...
...but make no mistake… we WILL complete our transaction...
You have been spared… for now… Phonicible P. Bone...
A few days later, at the fair...
The spring fair! Don’t you just love it, Fone Bone? the smells! The colors!
I have to admit--this is a pretty good way to wind up our adventure!
So why the long face? You found your cousins, and in a couple of days you’ll be heading back to Boneville!
Yeah. After Phoney and Smiley finish washing dishes to pay off their room and board!
So, cheer up! Come on! Let’s enjoy ourselves! We only have a few more days together!
Sigh.
You know what I want? Some honey! Let’s go find a honey-booth!
Okay, Thorn.
I didn’t know you liked honey so much!
I love it. At the fair you can get honey from the Southern end of the valley--it’s sweeter...
...and the boys who sell it are cuter!
You know, I’ll bet the forest is full of honey! Come on! Let’s go look for a beehive!
The bees around here are too big! Besides! What fun would that be?
Sigh.
Oooh! There’s a booth that sells dyes! We’ll have to come back here later!
I bet I could get you some honey for free!
I’m sure you could. Oh, look! There’s a honey-seller!
Hello. We’d like to buy a couple of your combs!
Step right over here, miss!
My name’s Tom. What’s yours?
Thorn. Do you have anything from South Valley?
Sure do! Got combs from South Valley and from Pawa! But a sweet little thing like you probably wants honey from Atheia!
Here! Just smell it! Nothing in the whole valley compares to it--except maybe you...
It does smell nice.
Want to take a whiff, little fellow? You ought to appreciate it with a nose like that!
Hey!
What is he anyway? Does he always follow you around?
He’s my friend. And we can both smell the honey just fine. We’ll take two combs.
It’s not THAT big.
Why don’t you lose the cupie-doll and come back! I could tell you all about gathering honey in the giant trees down south...
cupie-doll
I’m not a cupie-doll! I’m a Bone from Boneville! And what makes you so great?
cupie-doll
I’m a real man! I face swarms of man-eating bees with nothing but a little smoke to put them to sleep!
I--
Oh, come on! How hard can it be to steal honey from sleeping bees?
Why don’t you toddle off back to the freak show? I’m trying to talk to the lady!
Like she doesn’t have anything better to do than listen to a carnie brag about climbing a tree!
Oh yeah?! Well, runt, what do you think of this?
Hey! Want to arm wrestle?
arm wrestle
That’s enough! You can’t talk to my friend that way!
Come on, Fone Bone!
What were you thinking? I’ve never seen you act that way before!
He started it with that crack about my nose!
I don’t care who started it! It was embarrassing!
But--
When you can walk around the fair without getting into a fight-- come find me! Until then, I’d rather be by myself!
What’d I do?
Hmmf. He started it!
“...you ought to appreciate it with a nose like that…” RRRRR! What a smart alec!
Whoops!
Honey!
This is great! I’ll get Thorn some honey myself!
How hard can it be? I just need some green grass that’ll smoke real good when I light it...
...then I’ll wave the smoke in front of the hive until the bees fall asleep! This is going to be like taking candy from a baby!
Now to just shimey up the tree!
Nothing to it!
Easy as pie!
ERNF Piece of cake.
Don’t look down, don’t look down--
Whoa! There it is!
Oh ho! Look at that! It’s the motherlode!
That’s funny. I thought there’d be more bees around...
Hmm. I wonder why there aren’t a bunch of bees guarding the hive?
It only takes one!
End of Part 21