When people say “When pigs fly”
what they really mean is “never” because, as we all know, pigs cannot fly. But
the next time someone tells you something will only happen “when pigs fly,” you
might want to inform them that this has already happened, and tell them all
about Tracey.
Tracey was a
pig. And like many other pigs, she had her hopes and dreams and ambitions. Her
greatest dream was to fly. All her life she had watched the birds flying
overhead and wondered what it must be like. She even tried flying herself. She
climbed up onto a bale of hay and jumped, but that didn’t work. She tried
running and jumping into the wind, but that didn’t work. Once she even
persuaded a flock of geese to try lifting her up off the ground….that one
didn’t really go well for anyone involved.
She was just
about ready to give up, which would have made this story very short but easy to
tell, when an old sheep who knew about stuff said, “If you want to fly, why not
visit the Spirit of the Woods?”
“Woods? What
woods?”
“Oh, you know,
the thousand acre forest of dense trees just outside the farm. Over there,
see?”
Tracey looked
and, indeed, there was an enormous forest just outside the farm. Funny how
she’d never noticed it before.
And what happened to Tracey in the woods? Did she ever get to fly? Are there or are there not any monkeys in this story? The answer to these and other questions can be found by reading the full story HERE (And, yes, there are monkeys).