The Bulls Handy Cow - Just so stories

Myth’s & Legends Mike Bujold Oct 26, 2009

Step 1: Analyze
The Elephant’s Child
-Main idea: how did the elephant get his trunk?
-Repetition: Spankings over and over.
-Alliteration: great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River.
-Long trunk is from alligator pulling on his trunk.
-Elephant keeps saying that he gets spanked.
-Names are used over and over.
-Does not use pronoun.
-‘’Oh Best Beloved” as though the author is talking to the audience.
-Elephant says “Excuse me” many times when he begins talking to people.
-Elephant has conversations with different animals that are similar.
-At the end of the story, the elephant gets revenge.
-After his change, everyone else wants to be like him, to have a big trunk.
-At the beginning of the story, they are mean to him.
-Author shows how elephant’s new nose is useful.

Step 2: Personalize
The Bulls Handy Cow
-Main idea: how did the cow get its udders?
-Repetition: fetches goat milk over and over.
-Alliteration: Milk it Mike! Milk it!
-Udders are from eating a goat.
-Cow keeps saying she goes to fetch milk.
-Names used over and over
-Doesn’t use pronouns.
-‘’Girls and Boys’’ as though the author is talking to the audience.
-Cow says “Wadup Boy!?” many times when he begins talking to people.
-Cow has conversations with different animals.
-At the end of the story, the cow gets revenge.
-After her change, every other cow wants udders.
-At the beginning of the story, they are mean to her.
-Author shows how cows’ new udders are useful.

The Bulls Handy Cow
In a time where even humans didn’t exist yet, cows, Girls and Boys, had no udders. They only had strong bulky shoulders, whom they fetched goat milk with for the bulls. In fact, any cow who dared approach a bull without milk would only here ‘’MILK IT! MILK IT!’’. This lead to cows having a very poor life, milking all their days long, and did I mention a goat isn’t the nicest animal to milk? They moat and groan, and are very strenuous to get milk from.
One fine morning, a young cow named Mike decided she wanted to know why only they had to milk the goats, and not the bulls. The bulls were built much stronger and steady, there fore why shouldn’t they milk some goats instead of just pouting at the cows? So, he approached the hoard of bulls, and asked them: ‘’ wadup boy?! Why don’t you guys fetch and fetch milk for a change?’’ the bulls all chanted in a raging chorus ‘’GO! MILK IT MIKE! MILK IT!’’
Mike didn’t get discouraged with this though, instead Mike went and fetched them their milk, and decided to go ask someone else. Mike entered the barn, Girls and Boys, and asked the biggest and fairest red rooster there was: ‘’wadup boy? Red rooster, why don’t the bulls fetch and fetch milk for a change?’’ The rooster replied in a deadly cry: ‘’ GO! MILK IT MIKE! MILK IT!’’
Mike went and fetched milk, and with a little bit of exasperation went to bed. The fallowing morning, Girls and Boys, her hopes were back up. Many animals were left to be asked, and Mike needed to find out why she had to fetch milk and not the bulls. The rabbit, who was known for his kindness surely wouldn’t order her to fetch milk. So, Mike approached and said: ‘’wadup boy? Big Funny Bunny Rabbit, why don’t the bulls fetch and fetch milk for a change?’’ The Big Funny Bunny Rabbit replied: ‘’ GO! MILK IT MIKE! MILK IT!’’
From that second on, Mike the cow was furious, she ran straight up to the goat and asked ‘’ wadup boy? DEAR DAIRY GOAT, WHY DON’T THE BULLS FETCH AND FETCH MILK FOR A CHANGE?!?!?!’’ the goat replied: ‘’because they have dull minded cows like you to do it for them!’’ Mike the cow was so furious that she jumped on the goat and ate it in a matter of seconds. For the fallowing two days, Mike had the biggest and strongest stomach ache ever to be, and on the third morning, she woke up with udders!
Mike’s udders were so productive, that no animal on the farm wanted to touch a goat anymore, in fact every cow on the farm wanted there own pair! Mike the cow finally got revenge though; she only gave milk to the other cows like her, and not to any of the mean animals who had sent her fetching milk instead of answering her questions.