Clyde's Tales

by Salivanth

Clyde and the Xorn

Clyde and the Xorn

Once upon a time, there lived an eminently sensible earth pony named Clyde. Clyde was a sensible pony, but he had an extremely silly daughter named Pinkie. Knowing Pinkie’s frivolity, Clyde had instructed her to watch the fields, rather than assign her with a more important task.

One day, Pinkie came running up to him, frantic. "Father! There's a xorn in the south field eating all our rocks!"

Clyde galloped off to confront the xorn, only to find nopony there and his fields unravaged. His daughter began to laugh, rolling around on the ground in hysterics. "You fell for it!" she giggled.

Clyde approached his daughter with a stern look on his face, ready to punish her, when he saw a confused look on her face. "Why aren't you laughing, father?" she said.

"Pinkie," Clyde said, "allow me to tell you a story of the colt who cried timberwolf..."

Pinkie never tried to trick Clyde like that again, though she did put a whoopee cushion under his chair the next day.

The moral of the story is: Sometimes it is better to teach children than to punish them.

Author's Note:

By Salivanth.

Comments

[Super Trampoline]

awwww

[Valhuir]

Someone is an AD&D player. :D

[Salivanth]

3443343

Guilty :) I wish there was a more common rock-eating creature in mythology. Seems like a large gap if you ask me. Maybe someday the FIM team will give us one...a man can dream.

[CoastalSarv]

Even better moral than the last time I praised this series!

[BBkat]

3444433
Not mythology but, how about a big red rock eater?
planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/2/1/1/1/3/red_rock_eater.jpg

[Mangafanatic22]

3444433 Trolls are sometimes known to eat rocks.