Bud never could get over his hairlessness. He´d been concocting all sorts of potions to try to make it grow back. But none of them helped. In frustration he looked at all the phials and little pots with lids on them, that contained all the lotions and creams he´d tried and threw them away. Coincidence made them land right in Duma´s lap. She inspected them with interest and fell in love with them. She smeared a bit of this and then dabbed a bit of that until her whole body was covered. She was in ecstacy. She put them in neat little rows next to her side of the bed and told the dummy not to touch them.

Which was a very silly thing to do. If she´d just remained quiet, he wouldn´t even have noticed. Now he was curious. When she went off for a walk, he immediately investigated. He opened some of them and smelled them. They smelled nice. Then he got scared that Duma might catch him, so he took one and left. In a dark corner of the woods he opened it and smeared a bit on his body. It didn´t have any effect. He just threw it away.

When Duma returned she noticed something peculiar. Something smelled fishy in the garden. Were all the phials and pots there? She couln´t really tell because she only know the concept of ´a little´and ´a lot´. This wouldn´t happen again though. After putting on her thinking cap she came up with the basics of our current arithmetics. Eventually she would teach her dummy this aswell. Now she could count her phials and little pots everyday and see if anything was missing.

One dummy called Konsumo had a cunning plan. He gathered a lot of shells from the beach and then persuaded everyone to use them. Instead of bartering, they would give one or more shells. He explained: ´I buy one fish from you with one shell, then you can buy one loaf of bread from your neighbour´. The other dummy said: ´Why don´t I just give him the fish for the bread?´ Konsuma said: ´Because it´s easier this way. Suppose you don´t have your fish with you?´Eventually everybody got the idea and started using this technique. After a while though, some dummies ended up with practically everything and the rest had very little or nothing al all!

Bud asked: “Why money? You all had everything you needed, ready for the taking.” Konsumo said this was progress and nothing could stand in its way! Even Bud had to acquiesce. As greed is the root of all evil, things grew from bad to worse. Bud grew angry and introduced them all to a very grim gentleman indeed!

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He said: “Meet Mister Reaper. From now on, you´ll have to deal with him. And no, he´s not here to do your gardening. You will all die!!! I throw you all out of my garden and from now on you´ll have to get off of your lazy asses and work for a living. And remember: greed and power-hunger are not the way! Furthermore, I sentence you to keep on making the same mistakes, over and over again, untill you have learned your lesson and find the wisdom that was lost.”

I(Ralphie) threw my voice, and inquired: “Any hints on how?” Bud answered: “Your mission is simple and therefore very hard: REJOIN ME! You are living in a state called I AM. I am in a state called I WILL BE or I WILL LOVE, which are interchangeable. Find the way!”

Well…that was the end of their picnic in the garden. They continued to flounder. The first couples´offspring fought and one killed the other: they called them the Krow twins, Abel and Cain. They lived in the east end of the garden. Abel was extremely able but Cain couldn´t, if you get the gist. So Cain got jealous and killed Abel. How he was able to do that, no one knows. A-ny-way, they continued begatting end fighting each other and it wasn´t pretty.

This is a series of stories, which are in sequence. You should start by reading the first one: Introducing Bud!

Cain And Abel

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