CHO LEE YEN Pogo and Daisy had come to spend a night with Wooffer. Wooffer was always glad when they came. It meant a lot of racing and wrestling and good natured fun. And, of course, he was in love with Daisy; but so was Pogo. So between the two of them, Daisy got every special attention known to dogs who are in love. Daisy loved them both, and treated Wooffer and Pogo just the same… as best friends. Which was as it should be. They were all laying on top of the picnic table under the trees by the vegetable garden and talking to Cho Lee Yen. Cho Lee was showing Pogo and Daisy his beautiful tail feathers. Cho Lee, a peacock of the proudest kind, was demonstrating how he could shake and shimmy his tail feathers and fan them out to an incredible display of “eyes” all shimmering, glimmering and dancing before them. Pogo and Daisy and Wooffer all knew a lot about beautiful tails, and they had to agree that Cho Lee’s tail was the most magnificent they had ever seen. Cho Lee was VERY pleased. Cho Lee folded up his tail and asked Daisy and Pogo if they had heard the story about Wooffer climbing the Old Oak Tree. Daisy and Pogo begged Cho Lee to tell the story. Cho Lee told the story and did not leave out a single thing. He was a good story teller. All the time Cho Lee was telling the story of the Old Oak Tree, the black crow who had CAW, CAW, CAWED so rudely on the day Wooffer climbed the tree, was listening in a branch overhead. When Cho Lee had finished the story, the black crow said, “ He may have climbed a tree, but he will never FLY! CAW, CAW, CAW!!!!” Cho Lee Yen was not very fond of the crow. The crow was always poking his beak into things that did not concern him and never had a good opinion of anyone. So Cho Lee Yen could not help replying with his favorite saying in the world. “Where there is a Yen, there is a way.” The black crow, let out a raucous CAW, CAW, CAW… and said, “The day those dogs get off the ground, that is the day I will bring you a week’s supply of corn! CAW CAW CAW!!!!” With that last remark, the crow flew off. Cho Lee Yen knew a good deal when he saw one. He meant to get a weeks supply of corn from that crow!!! But how? He paced up and down for half and hour. He thought. He revised. He thought again. It seemed impossible. Then an idea came to him in a flash! He came back to the picnic table and explained his plan to Wooffer, Pogo and Daisy. They all agreed it was a good plan. Imagine if dogs could fly!!!!! They practiced the plan once, and it worked perfectly. Now to show the crow!!!! Cho Lee Yen went over the road and found the crow eating sweet feed with Maudie, the horse in Lester’s Field. He walked up quite nonchalantly, had a few nibbles of the sweet feed himself, and casually said, “The dogs are ready to fly, if you are up to keeping your promise of a week’s supply of corn.” Cho Lee enjoyed the effect this had on the crow for a minute, then he said, “Meet me by the garden in one hour.” Cho Lee sauntered off at a good slow pace, and meandered his way back over the road and over to the garden. When he got to the garden, he immediately started to eat the collard greens, which he was sure gave him strength and made his feathers shine as well, and waited for the crow. At the appointed time the crow flew in and landed on a branch of the Old Oak Tree. “CAW! CAW! CAW! Get on with it! I haven’t got all day for your nonsense.” he screeched. Cho Lee Yen walked slowly up to the table where Pogo and Daisy and Wooffer were sitting. He said, “Are you ready?” Wooffer, who was to be first, leaped off the table and Cho Lee took off running. Wooffer grabbed onto his tail feathers and held on tight. Cho Lee flew up to the top of Ho Chi, the pig’s shed with Wooffer holding on for dear life. They landed safely on the roof. Wooffer let go of Cho Lee’s tail and stood on the roof. Cho Lee flew down and this time, Pogo did the same “run and grab on” and in a wink of time he was on the top of the Pig’s shed with Wooffer. Once more, Cho Lee flew down and Daisy ‘flew’ to the top of the Pig’s shed on Cho Lee’s tail and was standing there with Wooffer and Pogo. Cho Lee was so happy he was jumping up and down on top of the shed. He was so tickled with his trick on the crow. He still had to get all the dogs safely back on the ground. He finally stopped jumping up and down and got calm enough to say to Wooffer, Daisy and Pogo, “Remember, as we fly down and you touch the ground, keep on running as fast as you can, or else you will roll.” Cho Lee Yen swooped each dog down to the ground as smooth as Vanilla pudding!! Cho Lee Yen spread his great feathers before the crow and said, “I will have some corn NOW, if you please. And corn tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow!! Seven tomorrows!” The crow, for once in his life, was speechless! Daisy said, “Can we do that again!? It was fun!!!”
