Lessons To
Be Learned
from
Uncle Cal
Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Co.
Copyright © 2012
All rights reserved – Cal Campbell
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Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.
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ISBN: 978-1-62212-894-5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is with a great deal of gratitude that I have a loving family who have given me moral support to pursue my hobby of writing.
I was fortunate to find a wonderful publisher in Serbin Printing, a world class Printing and Publishing company, based in Sarasota, Florida.
MS. Robin Clark and her staff have made my first effort of self-publishing much easier than I expected.
My beautiful and talented wife Dr. Betty Campbell has gone over my words with an eagle eye. Her hours spent in editing and proofreading is much appreciated.
This children’s book is dedicated to our three lovely great nieces who have inspired us with the stories that they bring home from school.
PREFACE
This small booklet is intended for children in elementary school. Probably, children from second grade through middle school would find the stories interesting.
At the end of each story I have concluded with a life lesson that will relate to the story the reader has completed.
Most of the stories are about small animals. However, I have included a couple of pieces that relate to families.
I hope that you will enjoy the stories and the pictures that complete each story.
Cal Campbell
April, 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ugly Ernie
The Sly Fox
Naughty Robin Red Breast
The Stray Cat
Bully Birds
The Colored Easter Eggs
The Racing Squirrels
The Little Brown Bear
The Christmas Tree
The Beautiful Pony
Awkward Sandy
The Lonely Man
UGLY ERNIE
Once upon a time on a farm in Illinois there lived Farmer John who raised both ducks and chickens.
Well, one day Farmer John was walking across a field on his land and found a large egg on the ground.
Farmer John did not know what to do with this egg. should he leave the egg on the ground and hope its father and mother would return and take care of it?
Farmer John thought and thought and finally said, “I know what I will do with this big colored egg. I will wrap the egg in a cloth to keep it warm and take it home and place it under my prize chicken and watch to see if the egg becomes a bird or a chicken or a duck.”
Guess what! When the egg broke open, a very ugly bird sat in the prize chicken’s nest. All of the other ducks and chickens laughed and called this newborn bird the ugliest bird in the chicken house.
It was at this time that Farmer John thought that he needed to have a name for this new bird. He thought and he thought and finally said, “I will call the new bird Ernie.”
Ernie had no friends in the chicken house and would sit by himself in the corner of the fenced-in yard. Often the other ducks and chickens would not let “ugly Ernie” have any grain that was poured in the feeding container.