For Addison Natalie Ethan and Violet Waterman who are always ready for an adventure in the Big Wide World
1 Hugo Deep in the cold North Woods there lived a young Sasquatch named Hugo He was bigger than you but smaller than me and he was hairier than both of us He lived in apartment 1G in the very back of Widdershins Cavern with his mother and father and his older sister Winnie
Even though the apartment was very small there was a nice little stream that ran right into Hugo’s bedroom It entered through a hole in the bottom of the stone wall traveled across the room and then escaped out another hole in the wall by Hugo’s toy chest Hugo had carved a little wooden boat that was small enough to sail in the stream He pretended that he was the captain of the boat and he was sailing to Bora Bora or Atlantic City or some other mysterious place that his grandfather had told him about He’d make storms by swirling his hand in the stream and the toy boat would wobble wildly but wouldn’t topple Sometimes little fish swam into his bedroom They were on their way to Ripple Worm River which ran through the North Woods Hugo
