Woozle and Frodo's Everglades Adventure

6 pm – April 29th, 2003 – deep in the Florida Everglades... Woozle and Frodo search the murky waters from atop their raft. "What's that thang over thar??" Woozle wondered.

Frodo duked excitedly. "I'm gonna swim over and take a closer look." Woozle replied, "Be careful, Frodo, there could be monsters lurkin'... Frodo? Frodo???!!?"

But Frodo couldn't hear his buddy; he was too excited by what he saw (a really big fish). He swam on and on, oblivious to danger, excited by the thought of a big meal. (Frodo's a fat boy.)

."Well, don' that beat all!" sighed Woozle. "What am I gonna tell Aunty? She'll be really upset if Frodo drownded. Gosh durn it! he's my bruddah, I should go after him... but I does so hate getting mah fur wet."

Meanwhile to the right of the raft, a foreboding shadow began to loom over the unsuspecting Woozle.

Woozle leaned precariously over the water and sighed "Oh Frodo! Please come back! I wuv you, mah bruddah!"

While Woozle worried about his ferret brother, Gatorator slithered silently towards the raft... and his next meal.

"Hey! What's thar?? Oh great Ferret in the Sky!! It's ... it's... GATORATOR!!!! We thought you was dead!!"

"What'll ah do... Look! Thar's a log! Thinking "big jump, big jump", Woozle leaped high over the water..."

"Oh my! Made it, only mah tail is wet." Now if only ah had me a paddle..."

Woozle looked longingly back at the raft, but Gatorator was moving up fast. "Yeehaw! Let the devil take the hindmost!" duked Woozle as he leaped into the murky swampwater and began paddling for his very life.

Woozle finally reached shore and with the last of his strength, pulled himself onto land, carefully avoiding the slumbering cobra. Gatorator was was nowhere in sight, stalking easier prey.

"I ate me a big fish, I ate me a big big fish, now I gotta tummyache, but I don't min', 'cause I ate me a big fish... tra la la" duked Frodo as he swam towards the beach – and home. "Ah wonder if Aunty put out a fluffy towel for her widdle Frodo to roll in? Sure she did, she wuvs me!"

Frodo lept out of the swamp and danced home. Not only was a fluffy towel waiting for him, so was Woozle, who was duking the scary news about Gatorator's Return to the other members of Aunty's Ferret children. The End...
or is it????