Cobb Story Rough Draft

Garden Caw-tastrophe 

         Cobb was sitting in his favorite chair and reading a book while waiting for his tea kettle to sound. When it does, he got up to go to the kitchen and he contently took the kettle off of the stove. When he looked out of the small window above the sink, however, he noticed there were some crows in his garden pecking at his pumpkins. This worried Cobb because they had been looking so good this year, and now the crows were ruining them.

        So he put down the kettle and hurried out to his garden to take care of the problem. When he got there, he wasn’t quite sure what to do because he never had crows in his garden before. So he quietly stepped forward, put up his arms and did a soft “shooing” motion in hopes that it would work. The crows looked up at him for a moment and then went back to eating the pumpkins.

        Cobb sighed and put a hand to his face in thought; how could he get rid of them? He could always just put on his horrifying face and scare them away, but he didn’t want to do that! What if he hurt their feelings? So he turned back around to the cottage to go inside to devise a plan, but he passed the garden hose on his way.

        Aha! This should do the trick; and it won’t hurt them either since it was only water. So he turned on the hose and started spraying them with it, but to his surprise, the crows didn’t fly away or even try to avoid the water. They just started washing themselves in it like it was their own little bird shower. Once they finished showering, they went back to eating the pumpkins.

       Annoyed, Cobb rushed inside the cottage and got some pots and pans; loud sounds might make them leave. So he ran back outside and stared banging them together. The crows looked up at him once again and Cobb was hopeful, but they didn’t fly away this time either. Instead they just started bobbing their heads up and down to the beat of the pans.

       Cobb was frustrated and started to bang the pots and pans together at a faster pace, but the crows only bobbed their heads faster to match it. Cobb then threw the pots and pans on the ground and turned back around to go inside again to think of something else. When he looked back before he went inside, he saw that the crows were now tearing up his flower garden and he worriedly rushed out to stop them.

        But no matter what he did, the crows would not leave. So he fell to his knees in defeat and started to cry. A crow then noticed him and hopped over to investigate. He looked up at him and Cobb looked back through teary eyes. Then the crow scratched at the ground with its foot and planted a pumpkin seed. Cobb then stopped crying and petted the crow.