Fox 8: A Story (Kindle Single)

Fox 8: A Story (Kindle Single) by George Saunders

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So came bak nite upon nite, seeted upon that window, trying to lern. And in time, so many werds came threw my ears and into my brane, that, if I thought upon them, cud understand Yuman prety gud, if I heer it!
    What that lady in that house was saying, was: Storys, to her pups, with “luv.” When done, she wud dowse the lite, causing dark. Then, due to feeling “luv,” wud bend down, putting snout and lips to the heds of her pups, which was called: “gudnite kiss.” Which I got a kik out of that! Because that is also how we show our luv for our pups, as Foxes! It made me feel gud, like Yumans cud feel luv and show luv. In other werds, hope full for the future of Erth!
    But one nite I herd something that made me think twise about Yumans.
    And I still am.
    What I herd was a Story, but a fawlse and even meen one. In that story was a Fox. But guess what the Fox was? Sly! Yes, true lee! He trikked a Chiken! He lerd this plump Chiken away from its henhowse, claming there is some feed in a stump. We do not trik Chikens! We are very open and honest with Chikens! With Chikens, we have a Super Fare Deel, which is: they make the egs, we take the egs, they make more egs. And sometimes may even eat a live Chiken, shud that Chiken consent to be eaten by us, threw faling to run away upon are approche, after she has been looking for feed in a stump.
    Not Sly at all.
    Very strate forword.
    That Story was also fawlse due to the mane Chiken is whering glases. Which, Chikens that I know of? Do not where glases. I do not think this is because all Chikens see grate. I think it is because Chikens do not even know when they don’t see grate, due to, altho I have the highest respek for Chikens, luvving their egs, they are perchanse not the britest.
    But Chikens whering glases was not the only fawlse Story I herd.
    Like I herd Storys about Bares, in which Bares are always sleeping and nise and luvving. Beleev me, as someone offen chased by Bares, never was a Bare chasing me (1) asleep or (2) nise and (3) luvving. You shud heer the many not-nise things a Bare is saying, in Bare, as he is chasing you, as lukily you slide into your Den just in the nack of time and try not to start crying in front of your other Foxes.
    And in terms of Owls, Owls are wise? Don’t make me laff! Once a Owl nipped Fox 6 kwite crool on his nek just because Fox 6 was saying a frend lee greeting to the baby Owls with his snout!
    For a long time, no one but me knew I knew Yuman. Then one day, as faith will have it, I am walking threw the wuds with Fox 7, a gud pal, when all of the suden a branch drops down on us from upon hi.
    And I woslike: O wow.
    But said not in Fox, but in Yuman.
    Fox 7 was so shokked he just sat with haunch on ground and tung lolling out, along with the wide eyes of being complete lee astonish.
    To which I said: Correct, what I just now spoke, was Yuman, dude.
    And he woslike: That is prety gud, Fox 8.
    To which I woslike, in Yuman, to perhaps show off slite: It is super gud, no dowt, Fox 7.
    And he woslike: We must tell our Grate Leeder. This is so— To which, in Fox, I woslike: I know, rite?
    So we went to our Grate Leeder, Fox 28, and I spoke him some Yuman.
    When I had spoken my Yuman, Grate Leeder turned his hed sidewise the way us Foxes do when feeling quizmical or a noise is hi, and said: Fox 8, how did you akomplish this?
    I woslike: By studying their speech patterns every nite without fale.
    He woslike: Perhaps you wud be gud enough to use your new skil to help the Groop?
    I was kwite flatered by this show of respek from Grate Leeder, famus among us for wize consel, plus always leeding us grate.
    I woslike: Hapy to help.
    Grate Leeder woslike: Folow me, Fox 8.
    Which I did, shooting Fox 7 a prowd look of: Dude, chek me out.
    Soon we are standing before a sine, and upon that sine are some Yuman letters like the ones I had been lerning. And thanks to my studies, I cud reed it. (Lukily, I had lerned their alphobet, by skwinting my eyes, threw

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