I think I ate pig crap.
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| 1993 |
I landed on a sow, grabbed, slipped, and was driven into the mud and pig crap by a hoof in the middle of my back. Out of the corner of one eye I saw the same thing happen to Harris – though he fought well on the way down, stabbing right and left – and then all was lost.
What actually happened is now blurred in confusion. I was up, Harris was up, I was down, Harris was down, we were pushed, pummeled, tossed and rooted, pounded into the muck, rolled into balls, and tossed like garbage back out of the pen.
“I’m blind! I can’t see!” I screamed. I had pig crap under my eyelids. “Where are you? Harris!”
Something grabbed my hand and jerked, and I pulled back, thinking one of the sows still had me.
“It’s me,” Harris yelled in my ear. “Come on – we’ve got to get to the river.” And he was laughing. “You look like giant pig turd. Come on, let’s get in the river.”
A small river – little more than a creek, really – flowed along beside the farm in lazy S’s that made shallow pools. Harris took my hand and dragged me through the pasture fence, across rough ground that kept tripping me, and into three feet of cold water.
I went down like a whale, sloshing back and forth, my mouth and eyes open – I had the muck inside my mouth as well – and didn’t come up until all I tasted was water.
Harris was on the bank, dripping wet, rolling and slamming the ground with his fists, laughing so hard I thought he would choke.
“It wasn’t funny.” I said. “I think I ate pig crap.”
“Minnie…” He choked back, trying to talk.
“Minnie?”
“Minnie….almost died when you landed on her…” He was off again, gasping and wheezing, and when I thought of the sow I landed on – apparently Minnie – and remembered her little pig eyes looking up at me as I came down, I started smiling, then giggling, and pretty soon both of us were rolling on the side of the river and we didn’t stop laughing…
Extract from the book Harris and Me
By Gary Paulsen
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Harcourt Brace & Co., c1993
Call Number: Y PAU
Extract contributed by Phua Ree Kee
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