The Pain Of The Poor - Episode 22

 

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Previously, 
  " It means that there was actually a snake in the house but it's gone now".
 
But don't worry my dear I will get to the bottom of this, that I promise you. Father assured me. 
    But even with that I was  still very much afraid to sleep inside the house that night, 

When ever  I shut my eyes  there was nightmare, nightmare of snakes dangling around my brother and I  or even running after us .  Minutes after minute  I do jump up from sleep shouting and sweating,  so after few attempt to get some sleep and all to no avail I gave up and stayed awake all through the night with mum by my side and comforting me.

THE NEXT MORNING. 

Father left the house in search of what ever that brought the snake to the house,  but  I saw that as a waste of time and money because I needed no witch - doctor or a pastor or even a wise man to tell me that it was my stepmother that was behind it all. 

For no one can tell me otherwise . That same day after father had left and all my chorus completed, it was time to take my goats out for walk and feeding, when I  got to where they were to feed I tied them down as I always have and went back home only for me to be back in the evening to find my favorite goat gone. 

Who could have done this I wondered, but what else can I possibly do after calling my friends to help search for it and after searching for some hours  and didn't see it I gave up and took the others home.

By the time I got home daddy was back, oh  I was happy though sad for my missing goat but happy that at list now  I can know what or who brought the snake. 

But I was  soon to be disappointed by my father, he lied to me telling me that it was no one's doing that the snake must have crippled in to the house all by itself when the door was left open.  But the house was never left open so no one will decisive me  that easily, for I was already vexed due to my missing goat and now my own father was trying to lie to me,  this man must think that am a fool isn't it,  for him to say this to me but not to worry for I will tell him am not. 

Father, I  called out to him in other to gain his attention for he thinks i have accepted what he said and have forgotten about it already but no I didn't so I told him; father I have heard what you said but let me tell you if that was what they told you where you went then the person have chopped your money oooh! Because you and I know very well who did it but don'tworry father am fine because the snake didn't bite me or Sunday so her plans didn't work. 

Having said that now, Father just looked at me with this am sorry face, His emotions betrayed him here was the truth written all over him so, but a man will always be a man so he kept calm and said nothing after that. 

TWO WEEKS LATER. 

It has been two weeks now since the snake issue and my goat been stolen.  Today I  decided to take my goats back to where I lost the other one because that place had enough grass for them to graze on but this time around I went with a friend and we were not living thethe goats there,  we were going to watch them feed then after words take them home, but on getting there,  there was my missing goat waiting for me haaaa (shouting out of fear)
   Who could be doing this and why is it me that who ever that was behind  it hunts I wondered but now wasn't time to be thinking but time to act and fast too

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. So my friend and I went and examined the goat and saw that he was fine, untied him from the tree it was tied and moved the goats closer to the house and when we got home I told mum and dad everything and they were surprised just like the way I was, so after that I helped mother with the cooking which was fufu and white soup with bushmeat, we ate and everyone went to bed . 

The next day after my chorus as always I took my goats to feed as I always have, somewhere along the line I stepped out only to return and find a mad dog devouring that my same goat that was stolen and when I throw a stone at the dog It ran after me, Thank God I was good with tree crabbing, so I stayed up there and called out for help but before  any help could get to us the deed has already been done for the goat had just a string of life left in him then.

It was so painful, even more than when it was stolen atlist that one I didn't know what happened but this one I had to stay and watched in vein as it got devoured by that beast of a mad dog and did nothing to help it.

I am a very bad keeper and they don't deserve me owning them or  taking them out for walk . I told everyone as i cried  for my lost. That particular goat was special for it was  given to me by Aunt Chidima my mums friend after her pregnant goat which I help her in finding put to birth, she gave me one and that was how I got every other ones gift from people so I loved everyone of them so much to the point that  even when they are Giving birth I stay with them rubbing their Tommy and  that one that  was killed now happened to be the only male among them all and it's dead. 

So from that day on I stopped taking them out to feed. But even animals too were sensitive for they were already used to me and the first day my mother took them out for feeding, they tired her round and dragged her home.

So having done that to mum, everyone  became so scared of them...