The Polka Dot Pony By Sheldon Oberman And Fred Penner

The Polka Dot Pony by Sheldon Oberman and Fred Penner

This is the story of Julie Gerond with the golden hair She loved the merry-go-round at the summer long fair. It turned round and round it moved up and moved down and played all the sounds that a merry-go-round could.

Sounds like singing and laughing, ringing and clapping, and tingling and tapping and blowing your nose and humming and hissing and strumming and kissing? and drumming and whistling and tickling your toes And hooting and tooting and burping and chirping purring and whirring and thumping and bumping and clanging and banging And ROUND Julie goes, riding elephants, tigers, camels and dragons, she rides on their backs and she drives them in wagons. Each one is special and each has its own song, but the Polka Dot Pony is her favourite one

When Julie rides the pony, the polka dot pony, that pony with far away eyes She dreams of deep valleys, she dreams of green pastures, she dreams of blue afternoon skies, And birds at the top of a grey willow tree, and the wind in the leaves grey willow tree, and branches that sigh in a grey willow tree... At the Edge of the Shimmering Sea

Then mumble and grumble and stumble and croak, the wicked old woman in the merry-go-round spoke "THIS RIDE IS ALL OVER! IF YOU WANT TO GO ROUND, YOU MUST PAY 50 CENTS OR JUMP DOWN TO THE GROUND!" "TOMORROW THIS MERRY GO ROUND WILL BE GONE! YOU'D GET NO MORE MUSIC, YOU'D GET NO MORE SONG! BECAUSE I'LL SHUT IT AND LOCK IT AND TAKE IT AWAY! THERE'S OTHERS WHO'LL RIDE IT AND OTHERS WHO'LL PAY!"

But Julie Gerond, with the golden hair, loved that merry-go-round at the summer long fair It turned round and turned round and Julie started to cry moved up and moved down her tear came to lie in the polka dot pony's far away eye

One tear became two in the wood pony's eye. Then Julie Gerond heard the wood pony cry. "I was a real pony... and once I was free..." "'til that wicked old woman cast a spell upon me" "And now... I'm caught in this circle, I'm stuck on this pole" "And unless I touch earth, round and round and round I must go"

Long shadows at midnight, The full moon at midnight... The old woman is snoring at her merry go round The polka dot pony, so still and so silent but the shadows are hiding Julie Gerond

The old woman is snoring and droning and groaning, she's sputtering and muttering bad dreams in the night. Julie is sawing and scraping and cutting the wooden pole holding the pony so tight. The old woman's groaning and moaning and shaking. Julie's saw grinding and scratching and scraping, The old woman's yawning and stretching and waking.

Julie JUMPS on the pony! The wooden pole is breaking! And down goes the Polka Dot Pony! Smashing and crashing they fall! The Old Woman spins round as the hoof hits the ground! But Julie and Pony stand tall!

"I am Free! I am Real!" "I can Breathe! I can Feel!" "I can see with my far away eyes," "I can see my deep valleys, I can see my green pastures, I can see my blue afternoon skies."

Julie Gerond and the Polka Dot Pony ride away to a grey willow tree, They hear wind in the leaves, and branches that sigh, At the Edge of a Shimmering Sea

The End

LOL

Dronetober Day 9: Elliot Manor

So kind of Tessa to give V her favorite aunt's hair!

Truth or Dare: Truth Route: Did Tessa ever play "doll" with you? Like stick you in different outfits n stuff? Dare: I dare you to give Nate one of your JC Jensen branded pens

Since I’m feeling so nice and generous today. I’ll give you the value pack. . .I’ll do both

Yes Tessa played “Doll” with me once she got a sewing kit for Christmas. At first, the clothes fell off because she didn’t learn the basics but eventually she improved and made me simple outfits. Mostly dresses.

I already gave Nate one of my JcJenson pens, almost smacked his head for calling me a “pen dispenser”

What? no… the gif is totally unrelated.

"Oh, no harm, Cyn dear," Tessa reassured gently as she gently ran her fingers along the seamline of Cyn's wig, "You didn't do anything wrong, in a twist of irony the Solver wiped out other horrible parents, like mine."

The ebony haired drone stopped and offered to Cyn, "Do you want to try on a different wig while I wash this one? Since you want to watch the process."

She waited for Cyn, knowing it would be cold for the little drone without a wig keeping her a little warm.

"Trying to interact with other worker drones... Has become difficult. They don't trust me." Cyn frowned.

How would J react if you did cut your hair... or wig?

Well it could go a couple ways:

Either she recognizes me and is a little upset because I looked fine before, mind you the one the solver can regen is the wig Jaybird made for me, so it's justifiable for her emotions

or

She doesn't recognize me and throws me out of my own shop, which once she saw me wearing my back up wig I use when mine is being deep cleaned in peroxide and I had to explain to her HOW I was Tessa. Anyways, thanks to that I try to line up washes with her sleeping.

Anyways, for the foreseeable future, there's no planned changes, and I like it long anyways, it's nice and warm and comfy.

Tessa Traumacore #1