King Kong

King Kong

When I was 6 years old, I had the surprise of my life one Christmas. Underneath the tree was a six week old Collie pup. At that time, I really liked watching a Saturday morning cartoon about King Kong. In the cartoon, King Kong was a friendly giant ape who carried his boy on his shoulder. The only time that Kong would get upset is when someone messed with his boy. Then, he would leap into action and save him. Although my tiny new puppy was a little bit bigger than a gerbil, I just knew that I had to name him King Kong.King Kong grew up to be a mighty big Collie. Although we lived inside the city limits of Chattanooga, Tennessee, King Kong ran free. During that time, Captain Crunch offered a whistle in its cereal box, so we used that to call Kong. When we blew it, Kong would come running. Never at any time did Kong linger. My brother and I loved to play hide and seek with Kong. Beside our house was a vacant field of extremely tall hay. Our little sister would lock Kong into the utility shed allowing for us time to hide. When we shouted ready, our sister would tell Kong to go fetch. It was amazing to watch Kong hunt. What Kong would do is leap high into the air, while looking down into the hay until he found us. It was almost as if he was gliding through air. One day my mother decided to find out what would happen if she pretended to hit us with a broom in front of Kong. Kong leaped into action just like the cartoon. Just before the broom could reach us, King Kong took the broom away from Mom in mid air. One night while we were all asleep my mother was startled by a strange sound that King Kong made. Kong sounded as if he was in distress. While she was getting up to see about him, Kong quit making the sound. So she just shrugged it off, and went back to bed. The next morning when we blew the whistle for Kong he was gone. We drove all around town blowing that whistle to no avail. After my family gave up, I walked around the nei

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