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

Talebearing24- What A Beautiful Change in Ronald's Life!

                Once upon a time, Ronald was very troublesome and playful. Anytime he was sent on an errand, he would go his way, playing football from one street to the other. He would never come home until Ten O'clock or after. Beating little children in his neighborhood was very common thereby reporting his notorious attitudes from different quarters to his parents. His parents were tired of these non-profitable and barbaric characters of him.

               One day, his parents went to his school to report him and seek for their advice. On getting there, they were very flabbergasted with what they met on ground because they had been waiting for them to come and hear what their son had done in the school. His teacher brought the record of his misdeeds. He didn't always stay in the class. Whenever, he was in the class, he would cause trouble and confusion. His class teacher studied him very well and devised a mechanism of counseling which later proved futile thereby adopting punishment as the last resort. Ronald could not stay for five hours in the class without serving three-hour punishment.

              With all these reports, Ronald’s parents were very unhappy and humbly asked the Principal and his teacher on what to do. Ronald was in Senior Secondary School 1 then and his teacher advised his parents to seat him down and ask him what he wanted to do. After making his choice, took him to their religious leader

Talebearing24- Enjoyment in Brilliance!

           Eze's school days were very interesting! Going by the saying "there is love in sharing", Eze gave chances to his intimate friends to peep into his work during tests and examinations. Although he knew that what he was doing was wrong and severally he was removed from their midst into another seat where he would not be disturbed. His friends would not be happy with his removal but there was nothing they could do.

         Much attention was placed on Eze in the class and his female classmates started inviting him to their rooms for tutorials. Eze would eat in their rooms and teach them some difficult topics or exercises they found tedious in the class. Eze could count the number of days he cooked food in school. Because of this, he was appointed the class Representative and had some responsibilities at his shoulder. He did excellently well on this post and he was advised to go for Student Union appointment but he turned down the advice because he

Talebearing24- A Friend Fell From A Tall Tree

           A childhood friend of mine in my neighborhood called Kingley going to the same school and attending the same church with me could not forget a day he fell from a mango tree not too far from my dwelling. Kingsley and I used to go to school together in the morning and waited for each other after closing hour so that we could come home together being the fact that we were living in the same neighborhood and our parents because of us were also friends.

          I could remember vividly we were in Senior Secondary School 1 then when we noticed that there was a tall mango tree not far from my house. Then was the season of mango, apart from the mango trees that we used to visit after school hour to pluck the ripe ones, we also paid visit to the nearby ones. Sometimes, we went to pluck ripe mango on our way home and ate all so that we would not be suspicious and beaten. This did not affect our house chores even my friend used to hawk after school hour while I would wash dirty plates we used in the morning when rushing to school. This was how we were plucking the ripe mangoes around without the consent of our parents.

          One day, I did not go to school because I was ill but Kingsley went and on his way home, he branched at the mango tree not too far from my house to pluck the ripe mangoes. On getting there, he saw three ripe mangoes at the top of the trees, he continuously threw sticks to them but he could not get them, then he decided to climb this tree and found his way to the top of the tree where these ripe mangoes were hung not knowing that what was good was not meant for a single person. When he got there, he met a snake and he was seriously scared therefore rushing down from the tree but because he was frightened, one of his hands missed the tree and he fell. When he got down, he even thought he was dead because the tree branches with the leaves beat him mercilessly on his way down but he was able to walk again with his eyes red and his school uniform dirty and torn.

I was outside the house when he was coming from this mango tree and narrated his ordeal. What a pity!

Talebearing24- No Experience Is Lost!

          Honeybee is believed to be a dangerous flying insect while the honey extracted from the honeycomb where the honeybee lives is very sweet and performs a lot of medicinal purposes. Honey is consumed raw or diluted and in refined form. Honeycomb is found in the hollow cavity of a tree where they believe that it is hidden from human beings and their activities. I personally had never seen the honeycomb before until the day we found one in the hole of a cut tree by the operator. It started like a play on this day, he was felling trees as usual and it was getting dark before we noticed that the last tree he fell had honeycomb full of honey as well as the bees at the top of the tree.

          Immediately this tree fell, the bees started flying around to sting any animal that came their way in order to prevent their home. Initially, we had been told to remove our top to prevent the entry of the bees into our clothes. The operator told us to look for a big and clean bucket, this was around 18:45hours. He gathered some dry logs of wood and set it on fire very close to the place where the honeycomb was hidden in the tree in order to drive away the flying bees so that we could extract the honeycomb.

          Because of the heat, the operator could not use the bare hand to draw the honeycomb into the metal bucket but the cutlass instead while we were at a distance watching the process and later I personally moved

Talebearing24- Childhood Ugly Experience In My Neighbourhood

         There were lots of enjoyment and sadness in my childhood. Many moments were interesting and good to be remembered while some were so pathetic to be forgotten. Although, I had learnt my lessons but I can't do without recollecting what had happened then. For instance, there was a day during our struggling time as boys in my neighborhood; we went to do a menial job in order to keep body and soul together outside the city and at the same time to help our parents with little expenses. Whereas that was not the first time of going out for such outing but this particular day will never be erased from my memory.

           This type of menial job was a lumbering form. Matured trees were found in the outskirt of the State so we traveled many kilometers away from the city. The amount of money each person made per trip depended on the number of sliced planks each person was able to carry from where they were sliced to the place where they would be transported to the market with respect to the distance. As usual, we met the sliced

Talebearing24- Nemesis Caught Up With Him!

         A man reaped the fruit of his misdeeds when he was out of service. An immigration officer who killed a man because of money at a spot had his biological son killed at the same spot. An immigration officer with his friend in the service used to go on road checks where they would abandon their rightful responsibilities for the society for their own personal gains. The businessmen and women that plied this road had known them very well for their corrupt perpetration. On one fateful day, this man and his friend were on duty as usual, around mid-day, a car coming from border had a ghastly accident. The driver of the car died immediately leaving the only man in the car with him in a state of coma, but instead of rushing this man to the nearest hospital for urgent medical attention, they decided to kill him because of his briefcase that was full of foreign currency. They saw it as a "golden opportunity" for them to be rich. They dispossessed the man of his money