Author: John T Jones, Ph.D.
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I was cleaning out the garage when I heard a voice from under my workbench. The voice was like a small trumpet or pipe, or a pipe and, garages, small trumpet, or like something I had never heard before. The voice said, "Please don't hurt me."
I said, "Come on out of there creature with the weird voice."
I took my shotgun down from the wall just in case it was big but had a small voice.
The critter bounded out from under my workbench and prostrated itself, garages, in front of me. It said, "Please get me, garages, a bowl of cereal. I'm dying, garages, of hunger and thirst."
It's head was that of a bearded man but the body was something else. I said, "Did your father marry a lioness?"
He said, "Of course not! The cereal?"
I headed for the kitchen to get the cereal. I tried to stay away from his tail, garages, . His tail looked,, garages, garages, like it might be harmful, sort of like the posterior of a scorpion.
I grabbed a large bowl, poured half a box of my precious Wheatiesฎ into it, and then a half-gallon of fat-free milk.
My, garages, wife came in the kitchen and said, "Got a big day?"
I said, "I can't talk to you now. I've a weird creature to feed."
She said, "A weird creature other than you?"
She followed me into the garage.
That was this morning.
The last time I saw my wife she was first breaking Jamaican Asafa Powell's world record for the men's 100 meters of 9.77 seconds, and then Roger Bannister's record of 3:59.4 for the mile run. See http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story, garages, .php?storyId=4703166, garages, and http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0112924.html
I think it was the creature's three layers of teeth, garages,, garages, that got to her.
Well, she'll be back.
While the weird critter was slurping down the cereal, I went to my computer to see if I could find a site with a Weird Creature Field Guide.
At http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/ I found Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places.
I scanned down the category list. It was not under the following categories:
"Biblical Beings- Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Tetramorph, and others..
"Serpents & Dragons- Dragons, Amphiptere, Amphisbaena, Basilisk, Chimera, Cockatrice, Hydra, Gorgon, Wyvern (also Lindworm), and others...
"Winged Beasts-Caladrius, Gansas, Griffin, Goose Tree, Hippogriff, Martlet (and Bird of Paradise), Opinicus, Pegasus, Peryton, Phoenix, Roc, and others...
"Land Beasts- Bonnacon,, garages, Bunyip, Cerberus, Gulon, Ibex, Lamb Tree, Mantygre, Mermecolion, Musimon, Salamander, Su Unicorn, Yale, Yppotryll, and others...
"Sea Creatures- Devil Whale, Kraken, Nereid,, garages, Mermaid, Scylla, Siren, Sea Bishop,, garages, Sea Monk, Sea Horse, Sea Lion, Sea Serpent, Siren, and others..."
Although I had an interest in the Tetramorph,, garages, the Wyvern or Lindworm, the Peryton, the Yppotryll, and especially the Siren, I had to move on to:
"Part-Human creatures- Centaur, Harpies, Ipotane, Lamia, Manticore (and Catoblepas and Leucrocuta), Moon-Woman, Satyr, Sphinx, and others..."
There I found the Manticore or Manticora, the creature eating my Wheatiesฎ.
I went back into the garage to tell this creature he, garages, was a Manticore or a Manticora,, garages, garages, .
The bowl was empty,, garages, not even a drop of milk was left, garages, on the floor, garages, of the garage.
He was gone! Not even a note!
I kicked myself, garages, . Why didn't I get my lariat around that creature before I went for the cereal?
How stupid can I be?
Sadly, I went back to my computer and added the Manticora to my listing of Weird Creatures I've Seen in the Field, garages, .
I didn't even get his name.
This afternoon, I had one of my grandiose visions. I decided that if I put a bowl of tempting Wheatiesฎ in my garage, the critter would,, garages, garages, return.
I got out my camp cot, a flashlight, and my lariat.
If that bugger comes back tonight, I will have him in my grasp.
copyrightฉ2006 John T. Jones, Ph.D.
John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction, garages, (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry,, garages, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He, garages,, garages, is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books, garages, and kits. He also sells TopFlight, garages, flagpoles. He calls himself "Taylor Jones, the hack writer."
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