The Field And The Flying Worm

The Field And The Flying Worm

By Paul McCann

 
Certainly or not there’s no need to understand anything in that distant field across the bridge . In that very field there was a worm that was swallowed by a cow . The poor worm thought it had died as it lay surrounded in darkness then the worm heard these mooing sounds which made the worm realise that it was lying in the cows stomach and so the worm wondered ,
"How am I going to escape from here ?".
The worm had no answer and after a while it fell asleep . It was a long sleep the worm had but when it woke he wasn’t inside the cow . It was dangling from a crows mouth perched on a tree branch and underneath the tree were two farmers standing on the field that had a flock of blackbirds standing beside a wishing well in the middle of the field .
One of the farmers said , to the other ,
“Blackbirds . "
The other one turned and said .
"How can you tell what sex they are from this distance ?”
The other farmer said
“Don't be daft who wants to know the sex of a blackbird ?”
The farmer replied ,
“ See that dung there , on the ground whets the blackbird is . “
The other man replied ,
“ I do see the cowering . What about it “
He asked and the other man replied ,
“ It makes the cabbage’s go green “
they both began to laugh .

They both got into their tractor and drove out of the field and over the bridge then along the road , that had a junction where a truck had lost it’s brakes and skidded across the bridge and into the field where it burst into flames and smoke poured up into the air .
One of the farmers said ,
"We just got out of that field there in the nick of time . "
"Yeah , pity about that truck driver ? I wonder if he knows about the wishing well over there in the middle of the field ."
The farmer laughed and said
“Sure enough , do you think that worm
would know about that wishing well ?”
The other man said ,
“ Well if he did he wouldn’t understand how it works . Would he ? “
“I can’t be certain but I’m sure he might be guessing how to use it “
The other man laughed ,
“Sure it’s a pity of him , he has no idea about how to make a wish from that wishing well over there in that field “

“ Look there , see that truck driver in that truck , he might be wishing he had his brakes fixed before he left this morning “
The mothers said
“ That crow there with the worm
in its mouth , he couldn’t care less about what happens next. He doesn’t know if he should eat the worm , play with it or let the worm go “

The crow then took flight and dropped the worm from its mouth into the wishing well .
The two men both laughed
“ Do you know what , if I were that worm
I would make a wish to have wings to fly away from the field and everything in it “
The other man replied ,
“ Then I’m sure the worm would have a better life instead of lying around in a dung heap here in this field .

The worm was free falling down into the wishing well and it kept falling down into the wishing well, down it went , deeper into a place where the fairies dwell around a still pool there at the bottom of the wishing well where they are all sat waiting patiently for someone to make a wish .

Suddenly out from the wishing well a little worm with a set of wings flew up into the sky over the rainbow to a place where no worm had ever been before .

The End