Chic N Wise

An American Dream

A long time ago there was a man who was named Philip. He managed to raise a family in Boston, Massachusetts. His family consisted of him, his wife, and two children. His children’s names were Fred and Mary, and their mother’s name was Lucy. They were not fond of political parties, and if they were somewhere they didn’t want to be, they had a way of escape on their minds, no matter what it cost.

“Tea! Cakes! Where are the tea and cakes?”, shouted Lucy, “We can’t be all out,we have guests next week!” “No tea?”, smiled the children. Had they not told Lucy tea will run out fast, they would not be smiling,of course. “Next week?” Philip exclaimed, “And it is Saturday children”, he added, noticing the children were smiling.

This was not good. Taxes were on America already, and British troops were scouring the cities and villages. But this family had their secret “power”, even when separated: getting what they need and want. So when I say (and when you read) that he stole and ran away, I mean it.

That tea lasted him the party. They asked short questions like “How?” and gossiped to all who listened. All gossip said and done, here is how the family got away.

Philip had run in the opposite direction of home. Lucy felt Philip was in danger, so she smiled and said to the children, Fred being six years old and Mary seven, “Now you children stay in your rooms, and don’t let me find the entire house in ruins”. Children can be mischievous, but Mary knew the meaning of the sacred word called “don’t”.

Searching for a clue to where he is located in her own mind, Lucy took the shortest route as fast as possible and reached the far side of the city Boston, Massachusetts. She knew the place like the back of her hand, as Philip did. So then she got to the far side, knocking down the tea seller with a surprise attack.

The children obeyed orders and stayed in their room, and you know the rest.

3 Years Later

“This is getting too bad”, said Philip,“We simply must buy some other person’s tea! This tea is far too expensive!”

“There is no other tea, how else can we get tea?”, said Lucy.

“Let’s buy from Canada, their tea is just fine.”

“Oh, well alright. It’s better than nothing.”

Philip sneaked past taxes to a Canadian border, and notified the taste, price, looks, and variety of the tea. He found cheap tea he knew the family would like and went back home. The family, to his expectations, liked the tea, and they used that tea for the whole war.

The End