What are you doing, boy? It’s beautiful outside, you ought to be out.

Nobodys around today

You need to have someone with you to enjoy the day?

Its more fun

More fun? What’s more fun than finding the dinosaur skeleton you keep telling me you’re going to find?

What

Dinosaurs roamed the whole planet.

They didnt roam Chicago

Chicago wasn’t always Chicago. It was part of a vast prairie, a grassland, untold prehistoric animals roamed what was Chicago, they went right up to the lake, drank from it, probably where Oak Street Beach is now, where we take you swimming.

You think

I think, I think you ought to go downstairs into the basement and get one of Grampa’s shovels, a spade, and start digging in our backyard, back near the alley, in the earth behind the incinerator.

Do you really think theres dinosaur bones there

If not there, likely somewhere else, but you’re not going to know unless you dig.

he thought about it then he thought why hadnt he thought of it if he would have asked to dig up the backyard obviously she would have let him let him dig for dinosaur bones as she was sending him out to now

What a dummy he thought

Okay Gramma Im going to find a bonemaybe a whole skeleton

That’s my boy.

his mother came home later that afternoon

she walked up behind her mother who was hanging laundry on the outdoor back porch What’s Joe up to?

He’s digging for dinosaur bones.

Dinosaur bones.  You’re okay with that? He’s dug a pretty deep hole.

I told him he was going to have to dig deep, but to be careful not so deep that he dug all the way to China.

You didn’t.

I did.

I think there’s something more to this than meets the eye.

Yes. It was a beautiful day and he was inside reading because he had no one to play with. I thought he should be outside.

So you incentivized him?

In a manner of speaking. He’ll sleep good tonight.

Joe! Joe!

Yes Gramma

Time to start filling the hole in, can’t leave it open, have someone fall in it and hurt themselves.

he was better-than-waist-deep in it

he turned to face her as she stood on the back porch among the fluttering clothing  stood holding the shovel in his hands earth piled to one side

Push the soil back, don’t pack it, if you think the hole looks promising you can dig again tomorrow, the earth will be soft, you’ll get through it in no time.

he wasnt completely convinced

Hurry now! You have to clean up before dinner too. We’ll be eating in fifteen, twenty minutes. Hurry!

goodness  he was really hungry he crawled out of the hole and began pushing earth nearest the edge into it he realised it was going to take no time at all

he was hungry

his mother was setting the table for dinner in the kitchen when her mother returned and took the homemade bread loaves from the oven to cool  You’ve incentivized him yet again.

Not to his knowledge, Karol. He’s looking for dinosaur bones. And they’re buried.

How long do you think he’ll keep this up?

He’s a focused little boy. How long do you think he’ll keep it up?

I think he’ll keep it up as long as you let him dig.

I think as much too.

Or until he finds dinosaur bones.

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