A Thanksgiving Parody
by
Wayne Richards
Published by Wayne Richards at Smashwords.
Copyright 2010 Wayne Richards
Smashwords Edition
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A Thanksgiving Parody
Timmy was a bright and imaginative ten-year old. His mind was like a sponge. Everything he read or heard was tucked away neatly in his sense of how it was. He loved to tell a story to anybody who would listen. For him the story was all in the telling. It did not seem to bother him that he did not always get his facts straight, or that he didn't even put them in the right context. He was often heard telling his friends some of the tallest tales you can imagine.
One thanksgiving season, his teacher made an assignment to tell about the first Thanksgiving. Timmy got up and began to speak in a sing-songy voice. What follows was Timmy's version of the story.
The First Turkey Day
Once upon a time, there were some peaceful people called Pilgrims. They were quiet people who never caused anyone any trouble. Sure, they were a little strange. They dressed in black pantaloons and white bibs with big buckles on their shoes. But they mostly kept to themselves and practiced their quaint customs. They lived across the sea in a land far, far away; a land called, uh – Turkey, yeah, that's it. Well, the emperor of Turkey didn't like them very much, so he gave them a hard time, particularly because of their customs.
You see, their custom was to get together every Tuesday and played bridge and drink tea. Practically everyone in the kingdom followed the emperor's custom which was to drink decaf while they played poker - but not those troublesome Pilgrims. They stubbornly refused to abandon the customs of their forbears. The emperor levied a tax on tea in order to persecute them and discourage them from drinking it. To make matters worse, he dumped all the tea in Boston Harbor and held a big party that is called the Boston Tea Party. The Pilgrims were in an uproar. They said this was taxation without representation. Then the emperor set fire to London Bridge.
The Pilgrims had learned about peaceful protest and passive resistance from Dr. Martin Luther King. So, in protest, the Pilgrims gathered round and sang an old hymn called "London Bridge is Falling Down."
The Pilgrims decide to leave
The Pilgrims then elected a spokesman, a one armed man from the Louisiana swamps named Amos Moses. He stepped forward from the crowd and said to the emperor, "Let my people go!" Then he threw down his walking stick and it turned into an alligator.