Well, it was quite a lively fire w/ flames shooting out the windows and bil keane screaming inside and all them sheep running around and i will tell you what: i thot at that moment that america was going to lose one of her preminent cartoonists and i and jake and travis were going to catch some kind of hell for it.
We tried to stop the fire but what w/ all those gas cans what travis keeps inside the barn we sure dint stand much chance.
I wld like to ask you to stop reading for a moment and just get ahold of yr horses and put yourself in our shoes. we had a box of useless ferrets, a barn on fire w/ gas cans exploding, and a great american artist stuck inside the barn along w/ all of travises livestocks.
And then!
This is the best part of the story so i hope you are still reading.
And then what happend is that sheep number 242 dashed into the burning building. Travis shouted "No 242! Dont go in there!"
But 242 DID go in there!
Now, I shld back up a moment to say something i have neglected to mention which is that 242 had escaped travises pen some weeks ago and was wandering in the woods while travis did all the sheering back around memorial day. then 242 came back and b/c travis has been sore at him he never sheered him and has let him wear his winter coat all summer so far. well, it was a good thing he DINT sheer him b/c 242 was practically fire resistent when he ran into that burning building! and then a few seconds later he came out, dragging bill keane by the pantleg in his mouth. If sheep 242 had not of gone in there and retrieved bil keane he wld have been a goner for sure. and not only that, but the fire burned off 242s winter coat, so he is all sheered and looks like brand new. later, travis said that was why 242 wnet into the fire in the first place, but do not believe travis. Here is the fact of the matter: 242 saved Bil keanes life.
I hope you will think abt 242 the next time you read the Family Circus b/c you will have 242 to thank for there even being a family circus to read!
Here is a video bil keane took w/ his camera phone aftewards, which is his camera phone what i gave back to him w/o him even asking, and i think you will agree that 242 is a high quality sheep just like i have told you, and that is the end of this story.
