Tabitha did not have a good night. She was coughing and all of that. The next morning she got up and they went to the pharmacy to get all the medicine and the pharmacy was closed. It appears that there had been this power outage and all of the electricity was off. So, …show more content…
He did not know that Tabitha was sick and nobody had told him. He knocked on the door expecting to go play and said Hello. I said, Hey, yellow monkey, come on in. He said what is the matter. They said that Tabitha was sick and she is in bed and she won’t be playing today. He said, oh, what is wrong? They said that she has this sore throat and he asked if they had given her some …show more content…
They said, what in the world is he going to do? Tabitha’s daddy said, are we sure that the yellow monkey can come through with this? What is he going to do? There are no stores open and what is he going to do. They said, I don’t know. 45 minutes went by an the yellow monkey was not there. 50 minutes went by and he was not there.
55 minutes, and just before one hour was up, here he comes running. He had his arms full of stuff in a big, big bucket. He came up on the front porch and said, okay, what do we need. Tabitha’s momma said that the first thing she needed to do is to make her some ta with honey and we don’t have any in the house. He said, not a problem and he pulled out some tea leaves. Tea grows on these bushes in places called Sumatra and other places. There were some wild tea bushes in the forest and he had picked them.
Not only that, he had taken those leaves, ground them all up, pounded them with a rock and it was very, very like what is inside a tea bag. He had gotten some paper and actually glued together a little tea bag. He said, just drop this into the hot water. So, they made some tea, and said, but there is no honey. He said, oh boy, and pulled out a honeycomb dripping with honey. Dripping, I mean, it was so sticky and dripping with honey, you could have filled up 2 cups full of honey out of