Rastus the T-Rex

       

         “Cat’s....Oh Brother!..... I own a cat and it scratches me all the time! Mom said cat’s don’t like
to have theirs tails pulled, but how was I 'spose to know that? Dogs? Well, my Dad says they're Man’s Best Friend.....We 'usta own two dogs an' a rat, now we jus' have two. Sometimes dogs, well they eat your cheese sticks.....sneaky rascals! Even sometimes they knock you over when you is playin’ outside, an’ you skin up your knees real bad! Gosh darn it, sometimes it hurts so bad you jus’ can’t help but cry!!! My mos’ favorite pet that I own is Rastus, he’s my pet T-Rex.”

           "I found Rastus one day when I was runnin’ all over hell’s half acre; he was hiddin’ behin’ a tree. Well, I ain’t scared of nothin’! You wanna’ know what I did? I walked straight up that dinosaur with my hands on my hips and I hollered ‘“Hey! Hey you dinosaur! I ain’t scared of you!”’ And I kicked him, jus' to show that ‘ol lizard I wasn’t scared of nothin’!” Then I got to thinkin’ and I turn' 'round an' ran home faster ’n a one-legged man in a butt-kickin’ competition.”

          “When I got home my Mom was waitin’ for me on the porch and she didn’ look none too pleased. ''Toccoa Eustace Gaines, where on God’s green earth have you been Son?! I have been worried sick! Get your butt in the house!'”  I’s tried to explain how I found a dinosaur hiddin’ behin’ a tree, but she jus’ wudin't havin’ any of it! So I jus’ figured it wern’t goin' to be no problem if I snuck out later an’ drug that ‘ol lizard home.