The hunt began and our author dashed to a cache of colorful eggs. He began to fill his bucket, the biggest bucket he could find from his parents inventory of toys.
When the wee legs of other hunters arrived our author picked up his bucket and looked to find the next cache. He scampered past a cache already being harvested and came upon a fresh cache.
As he squatted to gather the new load - his tall bucket tipped over spilling all his loot.
Unfazed, our author quickly aggregated enough eggs to make up for the spill. Again wee legs arrived and again he departed for the next cache with a bucket half-full.
Arriving at the next cache and squatting to gather the colorful eggs, our author’s bucket again tipped over spilling all his loot.
Slightly fazed, a thought of “not again” occurred for our wee author. Determined to fill his big bucket, our little author quickly compiled the spilt eggs and some eggs from this cache. By the time other wee legs arrived, our author’s bucket was three-quarters full!
He looked around and spied the last cache. With potential for a major score of eggs available, our author sprinted to this final cache. He arrived without spilling any of his eggs during the sprint.
But when he squatted to gather those last few eggs, his tall bucket tipped over spilling his entire loot, again.
More fazed — by the time he finished his wide-eyed thought, “Ohhh no! Not again!” the other wee egg hunters arrived and gathered-up all the eggs, leaving our author with none.
Totally fazed, our author began to wail for empty was his pail. His mother came to fetch her crying boy and escorted him to the boundary of the hunting field. As he balled by his mothers knee, the other hunters began to leave with their parents. Some parents asked his mother what had our author torn in tears. When she told them, their wee lad or lass would deposit an egg or two in our author’s bucket. As his bucket filled his sobbing subsided. Soon he reached contentment when his tall bucket was half-full.