Welcome to an abridged version of my yearly classic {Once
Upon An Easter}. You still have the opportunity
to buy the complete book version in eBook on lulu.com.
Once Upon an Easter
Chapter 1: Easter Vacation
School is on early Easter vacation.
The Campbellville Heroes as we fondly call ourselves were
racing home on our bikes. My bike “Yellow Bird” was an
old model ladies bike fondly called a “Preggie”. With a
make, shift wooden bar. On this wooden bar I towed my
good friend Choe Chan. Riding home, we made a screeching
halt by the shave iceman for a snow cone with colorful sweet
syrup. This will cool us down from the hot sticky sun. We
hoped to meet Ramdas and Suzie at the D. Y. C. playground.
Finally we got to the playground but the Subrianville
Iguana’s had got there before us and had all intentions of
hawking the field. With nothing else to do but wait, we
settled under the huge Ginip tree with its large branches and
cool tropical breeze blowing. Ramdas however saved the day
“would you believe it he had a flour bag full of mangoes”.
We ate as much as we could. Now it was barging time. We
dealt the rest to the Iguana’s to get them off the cricket
pitch. By the time we got home from cricket, Choe Chan’s
mother had prepared for us some Chinese cake with some
cold Sorrel drink. We ate then left and went to the back of
my home to start making our own cricket bats. Sometimes,
we made then out of old coconut branches that had fallen
from the trees and at other times out old pieces of wood we
found around our yard.
The start of Easter holidays.
Once upon an Easter
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