Hopalong Telling That First Dirtwalker Story
by GT Dodge
Copyright© 2025 by GT Dodge
Fairytale Story: Like Hopalong says, "Me? I believe in stories. But mostly, how you got to go back to the beginning, To the first time a story got told before you can trust it."
Tags: Dystopian Post Apocalyptic
“Yeah, well...
This here’s a story I heard back before.
You know, back before them Ay-Rabs stopped pumping oil
n started pumping sand.
“Me? I believe in stories.
But mostly, how you got to go back to the beginning,
To the first time a story got told before you can trust it.
This un been tolt in my fambly...”
(Hoplong lapsed into a hill county twang ever time he tolt this.
Now he’s got me twanging, too.)
“Maybe you heard the one about **ama, the first dirt walker?”
–Yeah that’s spelled with them couplea asterisks in front of the ‘ama’ part.
They’s actually said, smack lips like a kiss two times then ‘ama’,
but now I write the story out,
you gotta remember the whole thing makes up her name
instead of just a paleolithic footnote.
–Hopalong told it more r less the same way he always tolt it.
“**ama claimed to be the first dirt walker.
“Both sides of my fambly knew that story but only the oldest one on each side still walking and talking would tell the story.
None of ‘em said it the same.
“when my dad’s granma told it, I mind it goes like this:”
–Hopalong hates the high scratchy voice the story takes but it makes the story what it is:
“**ama, our Greatly-greatest Grandma,
told her kids and her grandkids and their grandkids
“--and now, I’m telling you, so remember it.
Yer gonna hear this story a hunnert times and,
the god willing, it’ll be you telling it someday.
So mind the important parts.
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