The Indian that could

One day an old Indian woman told a magical story to her sick grandson about how a big yellow bird use to fly around and pick up all the sick children and take them to see the great healer on the highest mountain in the land. She told him about how after the kids would see the Great Healer the kids would get better and the big yellow bird would bring them back home. This made the grandson wonder of he was going to get to see the big yellow bird one day. That night the boy went to bed and dreamed that he was flying with the bird. They flew all over the land. They saw the pyramids of Africa, the great lake and North America, the jungles of South America. The boy was very happy to have been able to fly with the great bird.

The boy and the bird arrived at a giant mountain with beautiful flowers and plants and animals he had never seen before. At the top of the mountain sat a old skinny man with a long white beard and a great big cane mead of wood. The man said hello, and the said hi back. The boy was a little scared but the old man told him not to be and that he was going to make him all better. The man waved his cane and said a prayer. The man kissed him on the forehead and told him to return home.

As they returned home suddenly the bird slowed down as they were coming back over his house and the boy could see his grandmother standing on the porch with a blank expression on her face. He called out to her but she did not look up. Just as he was about to call her name again a big black horse showed up. The horse ran up to the porch and his grandmother jumped up on the horse and they started to leave. The boy called out to grandmother again and this time she looked up and blew him a kiss just as the horse left his sight.

The next day when the boy woke up he felt a lot better. He ran to his grandmother to tell her about his dream. When he got to the room his grandmother was gone. The child wondered if the black horse that his grandma was taken her somewhere that she would get better too and come home.  As time went by she never returned so the boy would stand outside every boy in a big yellow bird suite and wait to see if he could get the great birds attention so he could get the bird to help him look for his grandmother.