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
pretended the fish were sharks and that they were attacking his boat He made the noise of a shark splooshing out of the ocean and clacking its teeth Sasquatches are excellent at making pretend noises For instance if you are in the woods and hear a howl you may in fact be hearing a Sasquatch pretending to be a coyote The fish played with Hugo for a while but in the end they always swam out through the hole in the wall and into the Big Wide World where Hugo was never allowed to go
2 Hair Balls Each morning Hugo and his sister Winnie walked to school Because their apartment was at the east end of the cavern and their school was at the west end Hugo and Winnie had to walk quite a long way The cavern floor was icy cold against their bare feet and their breath made cloudy puffs as they walked along
