Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Talebearing24- What A Funny Hunting!



           Toye, Taye and Kehinde were children of the same father but of two mothers. Toye was the eldest son among them of age eighteen years. Their father was a driver and a subsistence farmer while both mothers were traders. These children used to go to farm on weekends especially Saturday when their father was out for driving. Their farm was a bit far from their dwellings so they went there by vehicles. The common vehicle on this road was tippers because of the presence of quarry in this area. Every Saturday, they would go to Tipper Park whenever their father did not go with them for free transportation because some of these drivers knew their father with them.
         After getting to the farm under no supervision, they would work for three hours on farm and went for hunting. Snails and crabs were their targets on several occasions and they would pick as many as possible especially in the rainy season. Plucking of ripe pawpaw in their farm was not left out. There was no day they would go to farm without coming home with one thing of the other. Even their friends in their neighborhood always waited for them from farm because of what they would enjoy from their return.
        One day, after work on farm as usual they tried all they could to pick snails and crabs but no way because that was towards the dry season. They decided to go fishing by using the hook and line they had kept for so long on farm. Taye searched for bait they would use and he was able to get few being in the dry season. They started fishing and small fishes were being caught. The day was going dark little by little. All of
a sudden, Toye started feeling that the fish eating the bait was not small, he asked them to remain quiet, by the time the fish drew the hook down into the swampy, Toye used all his power to draw out the big fish, immediately this fish was out of the water, it was off the hook and was returning to the water when Toye used his left leg to raise it back into dry land and was caught. The game was called a day and planned to return home. Unfortunately, the last tipper they thought would convey them to the city did not wait for them on the road. They decided to sell the fish to raise the transport fare so that they could board a commercial bus coming from the neighboring state. It was completely dark before they could get home.  

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