Bulu by Dick Houston

Author:Dick Houston [Houston, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89307-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2010-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Catfish flopped in the shallow, muddy pool covering the floor of the bush house. Since the structure was on lower ground than the center, it was taking longer for the water to recede from around the foundation. Bulu splashed over to a fish and started pawing at it. “Find a toy, Bulu?” Anna laughed, standing in the middle of the house, holding a wriggling one by its tail.

“Not a pretty face,” Steve said, plopping another catfish into a bucket. Its long, rubbery whiskers and wide mouth gave it a somewhat feline look. “That makes twelve we’ve caught so far.”

Anna looked around the room, discouraged. Mud was caked on everything. “It will take forever to clean this up. Where do we begin?”

Steve shrugged as he picked up the bucket and walked outside. His boots stuck in the muck as he slogged to the river to release the fish. All around him, the lush lime-green landscape looked like it had been sprayed with brown graffiti. Day after day as the lake retreated, it left mud plastered about everywhere. On tree trunks, bushes, the long grass.

But if Steve and Anna disliked the sludge, the monkeys simply hated it. The long bout of cabin fever finally coaxed Jack, Flint, and Max to venture outside. But the mud was nasty. Their feet sank in it, and they lost their ability to play pranks on the dog.

Bulu now had the upper hand and took full advantage. He gleefully romped through the mire with Pinky and Perky, leaving the monkeys far behind. Even Firefly was able to step easily through the mud with her pointed little hooves. She had become Bulu’s shadow. Like three little sissies, Jack, Flint, and Max stretched their arms high in the air, tiptoeing through the slop. Eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee. Screaming as their legs sank deeper, screwing up their little faces like bawling babies. They soon gave up and returned to solid ground inside the center. Then the stick-in-the-muds sat together on a table, peering out the window at Bulu’s antics.

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