IN A NUTSHELL
Part Three
A Serial Tale in Three Parts
By Dylan Ware, age 11

“Well, we…we…we have to call somebody,” said Uncle Max.  He ran to the phone and pressed some buttons.  “Hello,” came a voice from the other line.  Uncle Max said, “Yes, I need animal…..”  “Stop! said Jumpy, “What are you doing?  We can’t call the people or they’ll get really mad.  We should find something warm to wear.”  “Oh, how about this cloth?” said Gibson, “We can make coats.”  “Good work, but we should take the camouflage ones instead,” said Jumpy, “We’re in a war, remember? Everybody grab some cloth.”  All the squirrels put on cloth jackets and Jumpy made a cloth hat, but no one else did.  Click! Click!  “Uh oh,” said Jumpy,” The man is home and we have to get out of here.”  The squirrels scurried out of the house as the door opened.  “Hey, What are you doing here?  Get out!” said the man.  “Don’t worry, we are leaving,” said Jumpy, “ everyone to their nut cars and somebody grab Jerry!”  Right before Jumpy turned his nut car on, he was hit with a giant snowball.  He flipped over and his nut car landed on him.  The same boys with the water guns now had snowballs.  “Go,” said Jumpy to his relatives, “I’ll catch up.”  Jumpy heard engines start and his relatives sped off.  More snowballs crashed onto Jumpy.  Suddenly, he remembered the emergency chili pepper he had stored in his nut car.  He fetched out the chili pepper from his car and threw it at the boys.  It went into one of their mouths and the boy fell down.  The other boy, still startled by what happened, fainted.  Jumpy uncovered the snow from his nut car and turned it over.  He jumped in and turned it on.  The fire from the car melted the snow around him and he zoomed off.  About an hour into the trip, he got worried.  He still hadn’t caught up with his relatives.  He kept on going until he found a crashed nut car half covered in snow.  He looked around until he saw a bushy tail sticking out from behind a tree.  He ran over and found Gibson holding a map.  There he saw half thawed Jerry lying in the snow.  “Where’d you get that?” said Jumpy.  “I ran over it and crashed,” said Gibson, “but I think this map can show us where our secret squirrel government is.  Look, there is the human’s White House.  Our government is in the backyard.”  “C..c…cold,” said Jerry.  Jumpy ran to his nut card and got an extra camo jacket for Jerry.  “Here, Jerry,” said Jumpy, “ Now let’s get a move on.”  Jumpy, Gibson, and Jerry hopped into Jumpy’s nut car and sped off.  When they reached the backyard of the White House, they found the rest of the squirrels covered in cheese.  “We got cheesed,” said Uncle Max, “I don’t think President’s maid liked us very much.”  “Come on, we don’t have all day,” said Jumpy.
The squirrels ran into one of the biggest trees and climbed into a hole.  Inside the hole was a huge room filled with Presidential squirrels.  “Excuse me, but we need to talk to the President,” said Jumpy.  “Right this way,” said one of the squirrels.  They came to a big quiet room and there sat the President in a big chair talking to two other squirrels.  “Excuse me, Mr. President,” said Jumpy.  “Yes,” said the President.  “I need about one thousand troops, sir, to fight the humans,” said Jumpy.  “Take them and leave,” said the President. “ Uh, okay,” said Jumpy. As they left the room, Jumpy told his relatives, “I’d expected him to be more serious.”  Jumpy, Gibson, Jerry, and his other relatives led one thousand troops out of the tree.  “Okay, Gibson’s map shows a neighborhood one block away.  There is probably tree houses there,” said Jumpy.  The squirrels marched to the neighborhood and sure enough there were plenty of tree houses.  The squirrels set up their catapults and chili peppers.  “Fire!” said Jumpy.  Nuts went flying and one broke a branch and made a tree house come crashing down.  Ladies with brooms came hurrying out of there houses followed by kids with dusters.  A broom sent four squirrels flying down, but another tree house crashed to the ground.  A catapult backfired and sent Jerry flying into a bush.  Tree house after tree house and squirrel after squirrel went down.
The ladies and kids fled and every last tree house was gone. At the end of the war, only forty squirrels were left and Jerry was injured from the catapult. “We did it,” were the
last words Jumpy said that day.

  The End

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