Copyright Scapers Inc. 2009
As Perfect O-So headed down the road, Mother O-So headed into the field, she would do what she could to make up for her three sons absence. There was a lot of work to do and only her to do it. ÒI better pace myself,Ó she said mumbling to her self. Mother O-So thought of her missing husband and sons while pulling weeds in between the radishes.
Perfect O-So traveled down the road and began to descend into the valley beyond. The sun had reached all the way above him by this point, meaning it was nearly noon. There, he saw father O-So and his two brothers. Father O-So had a bandage on his left ankle. At the Town Square he had stepped on a radish that had fallen off the cart and twisted his ankle. That day he barley sold any radishes and had no choice but to wait for one of his sons to come and help push the cart home.
Ah O-So was picking up radishes that were strewn all over the pasture on the side of the road. As he had pushed the cart on the road from Town Square, one of the wooden wheels cracked and the cart fell on the side. Throwing all of the radishes on the pasture by the road. Which is where So O-So found them when he was sent to search for his father and brother. So was busy trying to fix the broken wooden wheel.
Perfect laid out the food mother packed for him. Father, Ah and So O-So were glad that Perfect had found them and brought food and water with him. The three brothers discussed with their father their situation and what they could do. After an hour of talking and thinking of different ways to fix the cart and get their father home to rest his twisted ankle, Perfect O-So had an idea.
He asked his father if they could leave the radishes that were in the pasture there. They would then empty the cart of radishes it had so father could sit in the cart. Each brother would lift the side with the broken wheel and push the cart for a while. When the brother would get tired, another would take his place so that he could rest.
Father O-So thought PerfectsÕ plan over and agreed. He asked his sons Ah and So if they also agree with PerfectsÕ
Plan. Ah agreed he could return after they fixed the wheel the next day and pick up the remaining radishes. So agreed with both Perfect and Ah on their plans.
Leaving the radishes where they lay, the brothers in turn pushed the cart with their father on the road. As the sun set the brothers slowly reached their home. Each brother tired from lifting and pushing the cart such a long way. Their father unable to help them with his twisted ankle sat in the cart and watched his boys struggle. They struggled together as a family to help one another.
Mother O-So was walking to the house when she saw them approach. She immediately ran to greet them as they neared the house. She hugged her sons one by one and thanked her lucky stars that her husband and sons returned to her safely, for the most part at least. She hugged her husband with tears in her eyes. A happier mother you could not find anywhere in the world this day.