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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: My Friend Bobby + +Author: Alan Edward Nourse + +Release Date: October 3, 2007 [EBook #22881] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY FRIEND BOBBY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<div class="trans1"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b><br /> +This etext was produced from <i>The Counterfeit Man More Science Fiction +Stories by Alan E. Nourse</i> published in 1963. Extensive research did +not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was +renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected +without note.</div> + + + + +<h1>My<br /> +Friend<br /> +Bobby</h1> + + + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">My name</span> is Jimmy and I am five years old, and my friend +Bobby is five years old too but he says he thinks he's +really more than five years old because he's already +grown up and I'm just a little boy. We live out in the country +because that's where mommy and daddy live, and every morning +daddy takes the car out of the barn and rides into the city +to work, and every night he comes back to eat supper and to +see mommy and Bobby and me. One time I asked daddy why +we don't live in the city like some people do and he laughed +and said you wouldn't really want to live in the city would +you? After all he said you couldn't have Bobby in the city, +so I guess it's better to live in the country after all.</p> + +<p>Anyway daddy says that the city is no place to raise kids +these days. I asked Bobby if I am a kid and he said he guessed +so but I don't think he really knows because Bobby isn't very +smart. But Bobby is my friend even if he doesn't know much +and I like him more than anybody else.</p> + +<p>Mommy doesn't like Bobby very much and when I am bad +she makes Bobby go outdoors even when it's cold outside. +Mommy says I shouldn't play with Bobby so much because +after all Bobby is only a dog but I like Bobby. Everyone else +is so big, and when mommy and daddy are home all I can +see is their legs unless I look way up high, and when I do +something bad I'm scared because they're so big and strong. +Bobby is strong too but he isn't any bigger than I am, and he +is always nice to me. He has a long shaggy brown coat and +a long pointed nose, and a nice collar of white fur and people +sometimes say to daddy what a nice collie that is and daddy +says yes isn't he and he takes to the boy so. I don't know what +a collie is but I have fun with Bobby all the time. Sometimes +he lets me ride on his back and we talk to each other and +have secrets even though I don't think he is very smart. I don't +know why mommy and daddy don't understand me when I talk +to them the way I talk to Bobby but maybe they just pretend +they can't hear me talk that way.</p> + +<p>I am always sorry when daddy goes to work in the morning. +Daddy is nice to me most times and takes me and Bobby for +walks. But mommy never takes me for walks and when we +are alone she is busy and she isn't nice to me. Sometimes she +says I am a bad boy and makes me stay in my room even when +I haven't done anything bad and sometimes she thinks things +in her head that she doesn't say to me. I don't know why +mommy doesn't like me and Bobby doesn't know either, but +we like it best when mommy lets us go outdoors to play in +the barn or down by the creek. If I get my feet wet mommy +says I am very bad so I stay on the bank and let Bobby go in, +but one day when Bobby went into the water just before we +went home for supper mommy scolded me and told me I was +bad for letting Bobby go into the water and when I told her +she hadn't told me not to let Bobby go in she was angry and +I could tell that she didn't like me at all that day.</p> + +<p>Almost every day I do something that mommy says is bad +even when I try specially to be good. Sometimes right after +daddy goes away in the morning I know that mommy is angry +and is going to spank me sooner or later that day because she +is already thinking how she will spank me, but she never says +so out loud. Sometimes she pretends that she's not angry and +takes me up on her lap and says I'm her nice little boy but +all the time I can hear her thinking that she doesn't really +like me even when she tries and she doesn't even want to touch +me if she can help it. I can hear her wondering why my hair +doesn't grow nice like the Bennet twins that live up the road. +I don't see how mommy can be saying one thing out loud and +something else inside her head at the same time but when I +look at her she puts me down and says she's busy and will +I get out from underfoot, and then pretty soon I do something +that makes her angry and she makes me go to my room or +she spanks me. Bobby doesn't like this. Once when she spanked +me he growled at mommy, and mommy chased him outdoors +with a broom before she sent me to bed. I cried all day that day +because it was cold outdoors and I wanted to have Bobby +with me.</p> + +<p>I wonder why mommy doesn't like me?</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>One day I was a bad boy and let Bobby come into the house +before mommy told me I could. Bobby hadn't done anything +bad but mommy hit him on the back with the broom and hurt +him and chased him back outdoors and then she told me I was +a very bad boy. I could tell that she was going to spank me +and I knew she would hurt me because she was so big, and +I ran upstairs and hid in my room. Then mommy stamped her +foot hard and said Jimmy you come down here this minute. +I didn't answer and then she said if I have to come upstairs +and get you I'll whip you until you can't sit down, and I still +didn't answer because mommy hurts me when she gets angry +like that. Then I heard her coming up the stairs and into my +room and she opened the closet door and found me. I said +please don't hurt me mommy but she reached down and caught +my ear and dragged me out of the closet. I was so scared I bit +her hand and she screamed and let go and I ran and locked +myself in the bathroom because I knew she would hurt me +bad if I didn't. I stayed there all day long and I could hear +mommy running the sweeper downstairs and I couldn't see +why she wanted to hurt me so much just because I let Bobby +come in before she told me I could. But somehow it seemed +that mommy was afraid of me even though she was so big and +strong. I don't see why anybody as big as mommy should be +afraid of me but she was.</p> + +<p>When daddy came home that night I heard him talking to +mommy, and then he came up to the bathroom and said open +the door Jimmy I want to talk to you. I said I want Bobby +first so he went down and called Bobby and then I opened +the door and came out of the bathroom. Daddy reached down +and lifted me high up on his shoulder and took me into my +bedroom and just sat there for a long time patting Bobby's head +and I couldn't hear what he was thinking very well. Finally +he said out loud Jimmy you've got to be good to your mommy +and do what she says and not lock yourself up in rooms any +more. I said but mommy was going to hurt me and daddy said +when you're a bad boy your mommy has to punish you so +you'll remember to be good, but she doesn't like to spank you. +She only does it because she loves you.</p> + +<p>I knew that wasn't true because mommy likes to punish me +but I didn't dare say that to daddy. Daddy isn't afraid of me +the way mommy is and he is nice to me most times, so I said +all right if you say so. Daddy said fine, will you promise to be +nice to mommy from now on? I said yes if mommy won't hit +Bobby any more with the broom. And daddy said well after +all Bobby can be a bad dog just the way you can be a bad +boy, can't he? I knew Bobby was never a bad dog on purpose +but I said yes I guessed so. Then I wanted to ask daddy why +mommy was afraid of me but I didn't dare because I knew +daddy liked mommy more than anybody and maybe he would +be angry at me for saying things like that about her.</p> + +<p>That night I heard mommy and daddy talking down in the +living room and I sat on the top step so I could hear them. +Bobby sat there too, but I knew he didn't know what they were +saying because Bobby isn't very smart and can't understand +word-talk like I can. He can only understand think-talk, and +he doesn't understand that very well. But now even I couldn't +understand what mommy was saying. She was crying and saying +Ben I tell you there's something wrong with the child, he +knows what I'm <i>thinking</i>, I can tell it by the way he looks at +me. And daddy said darling, that's ridiculous, how could he +possibly know what you're thinking? Mommy said I don't +know but he does! Ever since he was a little boy he's known—oh, +Ben, it's horrible, I can't do anything with him because +he <i>knows</i> what I'm going to do before I do it. Then daddy +said Carol, you're upset about today and you're making things +up. The child is just a little smarter than most kids, there's +nothing wrong with that. And mommy said no, there's more +to it than that and I can't stand it any longer. We've got to +take him to a doctor, I don't even like to look at him. Daddy +said you're tired, you're just letting little things get on your +nerves. So maybe the boy does look a little strange, you know +the doctor said it was just that the fontanelles hadn't closed as +soon as they should have and lots of children don't have a +good growth of hair before they're six or seven. After all he +said he isn't a <i>bad</i> looking boy.</p> + +<p>Then mommy said that isn't true, he's horrible! I can't bear +it, Ben, <i>please</i> do something, and daddy said what can I do? +I talked to the boy and he was sorry and promised he'd behave +himself. And mommy said then there's that dog—it follows +him around wherever he goes, and he's simply wicked if the +dog isn't around, and daddy said isn't it perfectly normal for +a boy to love his dog? Mommy said no, not like this, talking +to him all the time, and the dog acting exactly as if he understands—there's +something wrong with the child, something +horribly wrong.</p> + +<p>Then daddy was quiet for a while, and then he said all right, +if it will make you feel any better we can have Doctor Grant +take another look at him. Maybe he can convince you that +there's nothing wrong with the boy, and mommy said please, +Ben, anything, I can't stand much more of this.</p> + +<p>When I went back to bed and Bobby curled up on the floor, +I asked him what were fontanelles, and Bobby just yawned and +said he didn't know but he thought I was nice, and he would +always take care of me, so I didn't worry any more and went +to sleep.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>I have a panda out in the barn and the panda's name is +Bobby too and at first Bobby the dog was jealous of Bobby +the panda until I told him that the panda was only a make-believe +Bobby and he was a real Bobby. Then Bobby liked the +panda, and the three of us played out in the barn all day. We +decided not to tell mommy and daddy about the panda, and +kept it for our own secret. It was a big panda, as big as +mommy and daddy, and sometimes I thought maybe I would +make the panda hurt mommy but then I knew daddy would +be sorry so I didn't.</p> + +<p>Bobby and I were playing with Bobby the panda the day +the doctor came and mommy called me in and made Bobby +stay outside. I didn't like the doctor because he smelled like +a dirty old cigar and he had a big red nose with three black +hairs coming out of it and he wheezed when he bent down to +look at me. Daddy and mommy sat on the couch and the +doctor said let me have a look at you young fellow and I said +but I'm not sick and the doctor said ha ha, of course you +aren't, you're a fine looking boy but just let me listen to your +chest for a minute. So he put a cold thing on my chest and +stuck some tubes in his ears and listened, and then he looked +in my eyes with a bright light and looked into my ears, and +then he felt my head all over. He had big hairy hands and I +didn't like him touching me but I knew mommy would be +angry if I didn't hold still so I let him finish. Then he told +daddy some big words that I couldn't understand, but in think-talk +he was saying that my head still hadn't closed up right +and I didn't have as much hair as you'd expect but otherwise +I seemed to be all right. He said I was a good stout looking +boy but if they wanted a specialist in to look at me he would +arrange it. Daddy asked if that would cost very much and the +doctor said yes it probably would and he didn't see any real +need for it because my bones were just a little slow in developing, +and mommy said have you seen other children like +that? The doctor said no but if the boy seems to be normal +and intelligent why should she be worrying so? Then mommy +told me to go upstairs, and I went but I stopped on the top +stair and listened.</p> + +<p>When I was gone the doctor said now Carol what is it that's +really bothering you? Then mommy told him what she had +told daddy, how she thought I knew what she was thinking, +and the doctor said to daddy, Ben, have you ever felt any +such thing about the boy? Daddy said of course not, sometimes +he gives you the feeling that he's smarter than you think +he is but all parents have that feeling about their children +sometimes. And then mother broke down and her voice got +loud and she said he's a monster, I know it, there's something +wrong and he's different from us, him and that horrible dog. +The doctor said but it's a beautiful collie, and mommy said +but he <i>talks</i> to it and it <i>understands</i> him, and the doctor said +now, Carol, let's be reasonable. Mommy said I've been reasonable +too long, you men just can't see it at all, don't you think +I'd know a normal child if I saw one? And then she cried +and cried, and finally she said all right, I know I'm making +a fool of myself, maybe I'm just overtired, and the doctor +said I'm sure that's the trouble, try to get some rest, and +sleep longer at night, and mommy said I can't sleep at night, +I just lie there and think.</p> + +<p>The doctor said well we'll fix that, enough of this nonsense +now, you need your sleep and if you're not sleeping well it's +<i>you</i> that should be seeing the doctor. He gave her some pills +from his bag and then he went away, and pretty soon daddy +let Bobby in, and Bobby came upstairs and jumped up and +licked my face as if he'd been away for a hundred million +years. Later mommy called me down for supper, and she +wasn't crying any more, and she and daddy didn't say anything +about what they had said to the doctor. Mommy made +me a special surprise for dessert, some ice cream with chocolate +syrup on top, and after supper we all went for a walk, +even though it was cold outside and snowing again. Then +daddy said well, I think things will be all right, and mommy +said I hope so, but I could tell that she didn't really think so, +and she was more afraid of me than ever.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>For a while I thought mommy was really going to be nice +to me and Bobby then. She was especially nice when daddy +was home but when daddy was away at work sometimes +mommy jumped when she saw me looking at her and then +sent me outdoors to play and told me not to come in until +lunch. I liked that because I knew if I weren't near mommy +everything would be all right. When I was with mommy I +tried hard not to look at her and I tried not to hear what she +was thinking, but lots of times I would see her looking first +at me and then at Bobby, and those times I couldn't help hearing +what she was thinking because it seemed so loud inside +my head that it made my eyes hurt. But I knew mommy would +be angry so I pretended I couldn't hear what she was thinking +at all.</p> + +<p>One day when we were out in the barn playing with Bobby +the panda we saw mommy coming down through the snow +from the kitchen and Bobby said look out Jimmy mommy +is coming and I quick told Bobby the panda to go hide under +the hay so mommy couldn't see him. But the panda was so +big his whole top and his little pink nose stuck out of the +hay. Mommy came in and looked around the barn and said +you've been out here for a long time, what have you been +doing? I said nothing, and Bobby said nothing too, only in +think-talk. And mommy said you are too, you've been doing +something naughty, and I said no mommy we haven't done +<i>anything</i>, and then the panda sneezed and I looked at him +and he looked so funny with his nose sticking out of the hay +that I laughed out loud.</p> + +<p>Mommy looked angry and said well what's so funny, what +are you laughing at? I said nothing, because I knew mommy +couldn't see the panda, but I couldn't stop laughing because +he looked so funny sticking out of the hay. Then mommy got +mad and grabbed my ear and shook me until it hurt and said +you naughty boy, <i>don't you lie to me</i>, what have you been doing +out here? She hurt me so much I started to cry and then +Bobby snarled at mommy loud and low and curled his lips +back over his teeth and snarled some more. And mommy got +real white in the face and let go of me and she said get out +of here you nasty dog and Bobby snarled louder and then +snapped at her. She screamed and she said Jimmy you come +in the house this minute and leave that nasty dog outdoors +and I said I won't come, I hate you.</p> + +<p>Then mommy said Jimmy! You wicked, ugly little monster, +and I said I don't care, when I get big I'm going to hurt you and +throw you in the wood shed and lock you in until you die and +make you eat coconut pudding and Bobby hates you too. +And mommy looked terrible and I could feel how much she +was afraid of me and I said you just wait, I'll hurt you +bad when I get big, and then she turned and ran back to the +house. And Bobby wagged his tail and said don't worry, I +won't let her hurt you any more and I said Bobby you +shouldn't have snapped at her because daddy won't like me +when he comes home but Bobby said <i>I</i> like you and I won't +let anything ever hurt you. I'll always take care of you no +matter what. And I said promise? No matter what? And +Bobby said I promise. And then we told Bobby the panda +to come out but it wasn't much fun playing any more.</p> + +<p>After a little while mommy called me and said lunch was +ready. She was still white and I said can Bobby come too +and she said of course Bobby can come, Bobby's a nice dog, +so we went in to eat lunch. Mommy was talking real fast +about what fun it was to play in the barn and was I sure I +wasn't too cold because it was below zero outside and the +radio said a snowstorm was coming, but she didn't say anything +about Bobby and me being out in the barn. She was +talking so fast I couldn't hear what she was thinking except +for little bits while she set my lunch on the table and then she +set a bowl of food on the floor for Bobby even though it wasn't +Bobby's time to eat and said nice Bobby here's your dinner. +Bobby came over and sniffed the bowl and then he looked up +at me and said it smells funny and mommy said nice Bobby, +it's good hamburger just the way you like it—</p> + +<p>And then for just a second I saw what she was thinking and +it was terrible because she was thinking that Bobby would +soon be dead, and I remembered daddy saying a long time ago +that somebody fed bad things to the Bennet's dog and the dog +died and I said don't eat it, Bobby, and Bobby snarled at the +dish. And then mommy said you tell the dog to eat it and I +said no you're bad and you want to hurt Bobby, and then I +picked up the dish and threw it at mommy. It missed and +smashed on the wall and she screamed and turned and ran +out into the other room. She was screaming for daddy and +saying I can't stand it, he's a monster, a murderous little monster +and we've got to get out of here before he kills us all, he +knows what we're thinking, he's horrible, and then she was on +the telephone, and she couldn't make the words come out +right when she tried to talk.</p> + +<p>I was scared and I said come on Bobby let's lock ourselves +up in my room and we ran upstairs and locked the door. +Mommy was banging things and laughing and crying downstairs +and screaming we've got to get out, he'll kill us if we +don't, and a while later I heard the car coming up the road +fast, and saw daddy run into the house just as it started to +snow. Then mommy was screaming please, Ben, we've got to +get out of here, he tried to kill me, and the dog is vicious, he +bit me when I tried to make him stop.</p> + +<p>The next minute daddy was running up the stairs two at a +time and I could feel him inside my head for the first time and +I knew he was angry. He'd never been this angry before and he +rattled the knob and said open this door Jimmy in a loud +voice. I said no I won't and he said open the door or I'll break +your neck when I get in there and then he kicked the door +and kicked it again. The third time the lock broke and the +door flew open and daddy stood there panting. His eyes looked +terrible and he had a leather belt doubled up in his hand and +he said now come out here and his voice was so loud it hurt +my ears.</p> + +<p>Down below mommy was crying please Ben, take me away, +he'll kill us both, he's a monster! I said don't hurt me daddy +it was mommy, she was bad to me, and he said I said <i>come +out here</i> even louder. I was scared then and I said please +daddy I'll be good I promise. Then he started for me with the +belt and I screamed out Bobby! Don't let him hurt me, Bobby, +and Bobby snarled like a wild animal and jumped at daddy and +bit his wrist so bad the blood spurted out. Daddy shouted +and dropped the belt and kicked at Bobby but Bobby was too +quick. He jumped for daddy again and I saw his white teeth +flash and heard him snap close to daddy's throat and then +Bobby was snarling and snapping and I was excited and I +shouted hurt him, Bobby, he's been bad to me too and he +wants to hurt me and you've got to stop him.</p> + +<p>Then I saw daddy's eyes open wide, and felt something +jump in his mind, something that I'd never felt there before +and I knew he was understanding my think-talk. I said I want +Bobby to hurt you and mommy because you're not nice to me, +only Bobby and my panda are nice to me. Go ahead, Bobby, +hurt him, bite him again and make him bleed. And then +daddy caught Bobby by the neck and threw him across the +room and slammed the door shut and dragged something +heavy up to block it. In a minute he was running downstairs +shouting Carol, <i>I heard it!</i> you were right all along—<i>I felt +him, I felt what he was thinking!</i> And mommy cried please, +Ben, take me away, let's leave them and never come back, +never, and daddy said it's horrible, he told that dog to kill +me and it went right for my throat, the boy is evil and monstrous. +Even from downstairs I could feel daddy's fear pounding +into my head and then I heard the door banging and +looked out the window and saw daddy carrying suitcases out +through the snow to the car and then mommy came out running +and the car started down the hill and they were gone. +Everything downstairs was very quiet. I looked out the window +and I couldn't see anything but the big falling snowflakes +and the sun going down over the hill.</p> + +<p>Now Bobby and I and the panda are all together and I'm +glad mommy and daddy are gone. I went to sleep for a little +while because my head hurt so but now I'm awake and Bobby +is lying across the room licking his feet and I hope mommy +and daddy never come back because Bobby will take care of +me. Bobby is my friend and he said he'd always take care +of me no matter what and he understands my think-talk even +if he isn't very smart.</p> + +<p>It's beginning to get cold in the house now because nobody +has gone down to fix the fire but I don't care about that. +Pretty soon I will tell Bobby to push open the door and go +down and fix the fire and then I will tell him to get supper +for me and then I will stay up all night because mommy and +daddy aren't here to make me go to bed. There's just me and +Bobby and the panda, and Bobby promised he'd take care of +me because he's my friend.</p> + +<p>It's getting very cold now, and I'm getting hungry.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of My Friend Bobby, by Alan Edward Nourse + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY FRIEND BOBBY *** + +***** This file should be named 22881-h.htm or 22881-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/8/8/22881/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: My Friend Bobby + +Author: Alan Edward Nourse + +Release Date: October 3, 2007 [EBook #22881] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY FRIEND BOBBY *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _The Counterfeit Man More Science + Fiction Stories by Alan E. Nourse_ published in 1963. Extensive + research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on + this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical + errors have been corrected without note. + + + + + My + Friend + Bobby + + + + +My name is Jimmy and I am five years old, and my friend Bobby is five +years old too but he says he thinks he's really more than five years old +because he's already grown up and I'm just a little boy. We live out in +the country because that's where mommy and daddy live, and every morning +daddy takes the car out of the barn and rides into the city to work, and +every night he comes back to eat supper and to see mommy and Bobby and +me. One time I asked daddy why we don't live in the city like some +people do and he laughed and said you wouldn't really want to live in +the city would you? After all he said you couldn't have Bobby in the +city, so I guess it's better to live in the country after all. + +Anyway daddy says that the city is no place to raise kids these days. I +asked Bobby if I am a kid and he said he guessed so but I don't think he +really knows because Bobby isn't very smart. But Bobby is my friend even +if he doesn't know much and I like him more than anybody else. + +Mommy doesn't like Bobby very much and when I am bad she makes Bobby go +outdoors even when it's cold outside. Mommy says I shouldn't play with +Bobby so much because after all Bobby is only a dog but I like Bobby. +Everyone else is so big, and when mommy and daddy are home all I can see +is their legs unless I look way up high, and when I do something bad I'm +scared because they're so big and strong. Bobby is strong too but he +isn't any bigger than I am, and he is always nice to me. He has a long +shaggy brown coat and a long pointed nose, and a nice collar of white +fur and people sometimes say to daddy what a nice collie that is and +daddy says yes isn't he and he takes to the boy so. I don't know what a +collie is but I have fun with Bobby all the time. Sometimes he lets me +ride on his back and we talk to each other and have secrets even though +I don't think he is very smart. I don't know why mommy and daddy don't +understand me when I talk to them the way I talk to Bobby but maybe they +just pretend they can't hear me talk that way. + +I am always sorry when daddy goes to work in the morning. Daddy is nice +to me most times and takes me and Bobby for walks. But mommy never takes +me for walks and when we are alone she is busy and she isn't nice to me. +Sometimes she says I am a bad boy and makes me stay in my room even when +I haven't done anything bad and sometimes she thinks things in her head +that she doesn't say to me. I don't know why mommy doesn't like me and +Bobby doesn't know either, but we like it best when mommy lets us go +outdoors to play in the barn or down by the creek. If I get my feet wet +mommy says I am very bad so I stay on the bank and let Bobby go in, but +one day when Bobby went into the water just before we went home for +supper mommy scolded me and told me I was bad for letting Bobby go into +the water and when I told her she hadn't told me not to let Bobby go in +she was angry and I could tell that she didn't like me at all that day. + +Almost every day I do something that mommy says is bad even when I try +specially to be good. Sometimes right after daddy goes away in the +morning I know that mommy is angry and is going to spank me sooner or +later that day because she is already thinking how she will spank me, +but she never says so out loud. Sometimes she pretends that she's not +angry and takes me up on her lap and says I'm her nice little boy but +all the time I can hear her thinking that she doesn't really like me +even when she tries and she doesn't even want to touch me if she can +help it. I can hear her wondering why my hair doesn't grow nice like the +Bennet twins that live up the road. I don't see how mommy can be saying +one thing out loud and something else inside her head at the same time +but when I look at her she puts me down and says she's busy and will I +get out from underfoot, and then pretty soon I do something that makes +her angry and she makes me go to my room or she spanks me. Bobby doesn't +like this. Once when she spanked me he growled at mommy, and mommy +chased him outdoors with a broom before she sent me to bed. I cried all +day that day because it was cold outdoors and I wanted to have Bobby +with me. + +I wonder why mommy doesn't like me? + + * * * * * + +One day I was a bad boy and let Bobby come into the house before mommy +told me I could. Bobby hadn't done anything bad but mommy hit him on the +back with the broom and hurt him and chased him back outdoors and then +she told me I was a very bad boy. I could tell that she was going to +spank me and I knew she would hurt me because she was so big, and I ran +upstairs and hid in my room. Then mommy stamped her foot hard and said +Jimmy you come down here this minute. I didn't answer and then she said +if I have to come upstairs and get you I'll whip you until you can't sit +down, and I still didn't answer because mommy hurts me when she gets +angry like that. Then I heard her coming up the stairs and into my room +and she opened the closet door and found me. I said please don't hurt me +mommy but she reached down and caught my ear and dragged me out of the +closet. I was so scared I bit her hand and she screamed and let go and +I ran and locked myself in the bathroom because I knew she would hurt me +bad if I didn't. I stayed there all day long and I could hear mommy +running the sweeper downstairs and I couldn't see why she wanted to hurt +me so much just because I let Bobby come in before she told me I could. +But somehow it seemed that mommy was afraid of me even though she was so +big and strong. I don't see why anybody as big as mommy should be afraid +of me but she was. + +When daddy came home that night I heard him talking to mommy, and then +he came up to the bathroom and said open the door Jimmy I want to talk +to you. I said I want Bobby first so he went down and called Bobby and +then I opened the door and came out of the bathroom. Daddy reached down +and lifted me high up on his shoulder and took me into my bedroom and +just sat there for a long time patting Bobby's head and I couldn't hear +what he was thinking very well. Finally he said out loud Jimmy you've +got to be good to your mommy and do what she says and not lock yourself +up in rooms any more. I said but mommy was going to hurt me and daddy +said when you're a bad boy your mommy has to punish you so you'll +remember to be good, but she doesn't like to spank you. She only does it +because she loves you. + +I knew that wasn't true because mommy likes to punish me but I didn't +dare say that to daddy. Daddy isn't afraid of me the way mommy is and he +is nice to me most times, so I said all right if you say so. Daddy said +fine, will you promise to be nice to mommy from now on? I said yes if +mommy won't hit Bobby any more with the broom. And daddy said well after +all Bobby can be a bad dog just the way you can be a bad boy, can't he? +I knew Bobby was never a bad dog on purpose but I said yes I guessed so. +Then I wanted to ask daddy why mommy was afraid of me but I didn't dare +because I knew daddy liked mommy more than anybody and maybe he would be +angry at me for saying things like that about her. + +That night I heard mommy and daddy talking down in the living room and I +sat on the top step so I could hear them. Bobby sat there too, but I +knew he didn't know what they were saying because Bobby isn't very smart +and can't understand word-talk like I can. He can only understand +think-talk, and he doesn't understand that very well. But now even I +couldn't understand what mommy was saying. She was crying and saying Ben +I tell you there's something wrong with the child, he knows what I'm +_thinking_, I can tell it by the way he looks at me. And daddy said +darling, that's ridiculous, how could he possibly know what you're +thinking? Mommy said I don't know but he does! Ever since he was a +little boy he's known--oh, Ben, it's horrible, I can't do anything with +him because he _knows_ what I'm going to do before I do it. Then daddy +said Carol, you're upset about today and you're making things up. The +child is just a little smarter than most kids, there's nothing wrong +with that. And mommy said no, there's more to it than that and I can't +stand it any longer. We've got to take him to a doctor, I don't even +like to look at him. Daddy said you're tired, you're just letting little +things get on your nerves. So maybe the boy does look a little strange, +you know the doctor said it was just that the fontanelles hadn't closed +as soon as they should have and lots of children don't have a good +growth of hair before they're six or seven. After all he said he isn't a +_bad_ looking boy. + +Then mommy said that isn't true, he's horrible! I can't bear it, Ben, +_please_ do something, and daddy said what can I do? I talked to the boy +and he was sorry and promised he'd behave himself. And mommy said then +there's that dog--it follows him around wherever he goes, and he's +simply wicked if the dog isn't around, and daddy said isn't it perfectly +normal for a boy to love his dog? Mommy said no, not like this, talking +to him all the time, and the dog acting exactly as if he +understands--there's something wrong with the child, something horribly +wrong. + +Then daddy was quiet for a while, and then he said all right, if it will +make you feel any better we can have Doctor Grant take another look at +him. Maybe he can convince you that there's nothing wrong with the boy, +and mommy said please, Ben, anything, I can't stand much more of this. + +When I went back to bed and Bobby curled up on the floor, I asked him +what were fontanelles, and Bobby just yawned and said he didn't know but +he thought I was nice, and he would always take care of me, so I didn't +worry any more and went to sleep. + + * * * * * + +I have a panda out in the barn and the panda's name is Bobby too and at +first Bobby the dog was jealous of Bobby the panda until I told him that +the panda was only a make-believe Bobby and he was a real Bobby. Then +Bobby liked the panda, and the three of us played out in the barn all +day. We decided not to tell mommy and daddy about the panda, and kept it +for our own secret. It was a big panda, as big as mommy and daddy, and +sometimes I thought maybe I would make the panda hurt mommy but then I +knew daddy would be sorry so I didn't. + +Bobby and I were playing with Bobby the panda the day the doctor came +and mommy called me in and made Bobby stay outside. I didn't like the +doctor because he smelled like a dirty old cigar and he had a big red +nose with three black hairs coming out of it and he wheezed when he bent +down to look at me. Daddy and mommy sat on the couch and the doctor said +let me have a look at you young fellow and I said but I'm not sick and +the doctor said ha ha, of course you aren't, you're a fine looking boy +but just let me listen to your chest for a minute. So he put a cold +thing on my chest and stuck some tubes in his ears and listened, and +then he looked in my eyes with a bright light and looked into my ears, +and then he felt my head all over. He had big hairy hands and I didn't +like him touching me but I knew mommy would be angry if I didn't hold +still so I let him finish. Then he told daddy some big words that I +couldn't understand, but in think-talk he was saying that my head still +hadn't closed up right and I didn't have as much hair as you'd expect +but otherwise I seemed to be all right. He said I was a good stout +looking boy but if they wanted a specialist in to look at me he would +arrange it. Daddy asked if that would cost very much and the doctor said +yes it probably would and he didn't see any real need for it because my +bones were just a little slow in developing, and mommy said have you +seen other children like that? The doctor said no but if the boy seems +to be normal and intelligent why should she be worrying so? Then mommy +told me to go upstairs, and I went but I stopped on the top stair and +listened. + +When I was gone the doctor said now Carol what is it that's really +bothering you? Then mommy told him what she had told daddy, how she +thought I knew what she was thinking, and the doctor said to daddy, Ben, +have you ever felt any such thing about the boy? Daddy said of course +not, sometimes he gives you the feeling that he's smarter than you think +he is but all parents have that feeling about their children sometimes. +And then mother broke down and her voice got loud and she said he's a +monster, I know it, there's something wrong and he's different from us, +him and that horrible dog. The doctor said but it's a beautiful collie, +and mommy said but he _talks_ to it and it _understands_ him, and the +doctor said now, Carol, let's be reasonable. Mommy said I've been +reasonable too long, you men just can't see it at all, don't you think +I'd know a normal child if I saw one? And then she cried and cried, and +finally she said all right, I know I'm making a fool of myself, maybe +I'm just overtired, and the doctor said I'm sure that's the trouble, try +to get some rest, and sleep longer at night, and mommy said I can't +sleep at night, I just lie there and think. + +The doctor said well we'll fix that, enough of this nonsense now, you +need your sleep and if you're not sleeping well it's _you_ that should +be seeing the doctor. He gave her some pills from his bag and then he +went away, and pretty soon daddy let Bobby in, and Bobby came upstairs +and jumped up and licked my face as if he'd been away for a hundred +million years. Later mommy called me down for supper, and she wasn't +crying any more, and she and daddy didn't say anything about what they +had said to the doctor. Mommy made me a special surprise for dessert, +some ice cream with chocolate syrup on top, and after supper we all went +for a walk, even though it was cold outside and snowing again. Then +daddy said well, I think things will be all right, and mommy said I hope +so, but I could tell that she didn't really think so, and she was more +afraid of me than ever. + + * * * * * + +For a while I thought mommy was really going to be nice to me and Bobby +then. She was especially nice when daddy was home but when daddy was +away at work sometimes mommy jumped when she saw me looking at her and +then sent me outdoors to play and told me not to come in until lunch. I +liked that because I knew if I weren't near mommy everything would be +all right. When I was with mommy I tried hard not to look at her and I +tried not to hear what she was thinking, but lots of times I would see +her looking first at me and then at Bobby, and those times I couldn't +help hearing what she was thinking because it seemed so loud inside my +head that it made my eyes hurt. But I knew mommy would be angry so I +pretended I couldn't hear what she was thinking at all. + +One day when we were out in the barn playing with Bobby the panda we saw +mommy coming down through the snow from the kitchen and Bobby said look +out Jimmy mommy is coming and I quick told Bobby the panda to go hide +under the hay so mommy couldn't see him. But the panda was so big his +whole top and his little pink nose stuck out of the hay. Mommy came in +and looked around the barn and said you've been out here for a long +time, what have you been doing? I said nothing, and Bobby said nothing +too, only in think-talk. And mommy said you are too, you've been doing +something naughty, and I said no mommy we haven't done _anything_, and +then the panda sneezed and I looked at him and he looked so funny with +his nose sticking out of the hay that I laughed out loud. + +Mommy looked angry and said well what's so funny, what are you laughing +at? I said nothing, because I knew mommy couldn't see the panda, but I +couldn't stop laughing because he looked so funny sticking out of the +hay. Then mommy got mad and grabbed my ear and shook me until it hurt +and said you naughty boy, _don't you lie to me_, what have you been +doing out here? She hurt me so much I started to cry and then Bobby +snarled at mommy loud and low and curled his lips back over his teeth +and snarled some more. And mommy got real white in the face and let go +of me and she said get out of here you nasty dog and Bobby snarled +louder and then snapped at her. She screamed and she said Jimmy you come +in the house this minute and leave that nasty dog outdoors and I said I +won't come, I hate you. + +Then mommy said Jimmy! You wicked, ugly little monster, and I said I +don't care, when I get big I'm going to hurt you and throw you in the +wood shed and lock you in until you die and make you eat coconut pudding +and Bobby hates you too. And mommy looked terrible and I could feel how +much she was afraid of me and I said you just wait, I'll hurt you bad +when I get big, and then she turned and ran back to the house. And Bobby +wagged his tail and said don't worry, I won't let her hurt you any more +and I said Bobby you shouldn't have snapped at her because daddy won't +like me when he comes home but Bobby said _I_ like you and I won't let +anything ever hurt you. I'll always take care of you no matter what. And +I said promise? No matter what? And Bobby said I promise. And then we +told Bobby the panda to come out but it wasn't much fun playing any +more. + +After a little while mommy called me and said lunch was ready. She was +still white and I said can Bobby come too and she said of course Bobby +can come, Bobby's a nice dog, so we went in to eat lunch. Mommy was +talking real fast about what fun it was to play in the barn and was I +sure I wasn't too cold because it was below zero outside and the radio +said a snowstorm was coming, but she didn't say anything about Bobby and +me being out in the barn. She was talking so fast I couldn't hear what +she was thinking except for little bits while she set my lunch on the +table and then she set a bowl of food on the floor for Bobby even though +it wasn't Bobby's time to eat and said nice Bobby here's your dinner. +Bobby came over and sniffed the bowl and then he looked up at me and +said it smells funny and mommy said nice Bobby, it's good hamburger just +the way you like it-- + +And then for just a second I saw what she was thinking and it was +terrible because she was thinking that Bobby would soon be dead, and I +remembered daddy saying a long time ago that somebody fed bad things to +the Bennet's dog and the dog died and I said don't eat it, Bobby, and +Bobby snarled at the dish. And then mommy said you tell the dog to eat +it and I said no you're bad and you want to hurt Bobby, and then I +picked up the dish and threw it at mommy. It missed and smashed on the +wall and she screamed and turned and ran out into the other room. She +was screaming for daddy and saying I can't stand it, he's a monster, a +murderous little monster and we've got to get out of here before he +kills us all, he knows what we're thinking, he's horrible, and then she +was on the telephone, and she couldn't make the words come out right +when she tried to talk. + +I was scared and I said come on Bobby let's lock ourselves up in my room +and we ran upstairs and locked the door. Mommy was banging things and +laughing and crying downstairs and screaming we've got to get out, +he'll kill us if we don't, and a while later I heard the car coming up +the road fast, and saw daddy run into the house just as it started to +snow. Then mommy was screaming please, Ben, we've got to get out of +here, he tried to kill me, and the dog is vicious, he bit me when I +tried to make him stop. + +The next minute daddy was running up the stairs two at a time and I +could feel him inside my head for the first time and I knew he was +angry. He'd never been this angry before and he rattled the knob and +said open this door Jimmy in a loud voice. I said no I won't and he said +open the door or I'll break your neck when I get in there and then he +kicked the door and kicked it again. The third time the lock broke and +the door flew open and daddy stood there panting. His eyes looked +terrible and he had a leather belt doubled up in his hand and he said +now come out here and his voice was so loud it hurt my ears. + +Down below mommy was crying please Ben, take me away, he'll kill us +both, he's a monster! I said don't hurt me daddy it was mommy, she was +bad to me, and he said I said _come out here_ even louder. I was scared +then and I said please daddy I'll be good I promise. Then he started for +me with the belt and I screamed out Bobby! Don't let him hurt me, Bobby, +and Bobby snarled like a wild animal and jumped at daddy and bit his +wrist so bad the blood spurted out. Daddy shouted and dropped the belt +and kicked at Bobby but Bobby was too quick. He jumped for daddy again +and I saw his white teeth flash and heard him snap close to daddy's +throat and then Bobby was snarling and snapping and I was excited and I +shouted hurt him, Bobby, he's been bad to me too and he wants to hurt me +and you've got to stop him. + +Then I saw daddy's eyes open wide, and felt something jump in his mind, +something that I'd never felt there before and I knew he was +understanding my think-talk. I said I want Bobby to hurt you and mommy +because you're not nice to me, only Bobby and my panda are nice to me. +Go ahead, Bobby, hurt him, bite him again and make him bleed. And then +daddy caught Bobby by the neck and threw him across the room and slammed +the door shut and dragged something heavy up to block it. In a minute he +was running downstairs shouting Carol, _I heard it!_ you were right all +along--_I felt him, I felt what he was thinking!_ And mommy cried +please, Ben, take me away, let's leave them and never come back, never, +and daddy said it's horrible, he told that dog to kill me and it went +right for my throat, the boy is evil and monstrous. Even from downstairs +I could feel daddy's fear pounding into my head and then I heard the +door banging and looked out the window and saw daddy carrying suitcases +out through the snow to the car and then mommy came out running and the +car started down the hill and they were gone. Everything downstairs was +very quiet. I looked out the window and I couldn't see anything but the +big falling snowflakes and the sun going down over the hill. + +Now Bobby and I and the panda are all together and I'm glad mommy and +daddy are gone. I went to sleep for a little while because my head hurt +so but now I'm awake and Bobby is lying across the room licking his feet +and I hope mommy and daddy never come back because Bobby will take care +of me. Bobby is my friend and he said he'd always take care of me no +matter what and he understands my think-talk even if he isn't very +smart. + +It's beginning to get cold in the house now because nobody has gone down +to fix the fire but I don't care about that. Pretty soon I will tell +Bobby to push open the door and go down and fix the fire and then I will +tell him to get supper for me and then I will stay up all night because +mommy and daddy aren't here to make me go to bed. There's just me and +Bobby and the panda, and Bobby promised he'd take care of me because +he's my friend. + +It's getting very cold now, and I'm getting hungry. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of My Friend Bobby, by Alan Edward Nourse + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY FRIEND BOBBY *** + +***** This file should be named 22881.txt or 22881.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/8/8/22881/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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