Earl: part 2

Earl stood, contemplating with his large and lopsided eyes, his new chunky immobile legs. He didn't have too many thoughts about the state of himself, as you can imagine, and so merely sat still like a small mountain and the base of a greater one.
Suddenly, a jackrabbit shot out from beneath a pricker bush nearby. Laughing hysterically, the rabbit chattered his two front teeth at Earl and pointed his lucky little paws at him. Earl was not embarrassed, but was intrigued by the speed with which this fuzzy little beast hopped and sprang around him. The rabbit inspected Earl's huge boulder legs and realized the predicament of this odd looking stick boy with the sky in his eyes and the mountains in his legs, and not much else. The rabbit began to run around Earl, as fast as he could, kicking up quite a cloud of dust and pricker thorns. The whirlwind began to move in Earl's leg, and they began to stir. With a giddy yip, the rabbit took off running and caught Earl in his wake and Earl's great legs began to move and jerk along. One lumbering step after another, Earl took off running after the rabbit, and that is how Earl found his speed and mobility.

Earl clomped along merrily, unfortunately the jackrabbit had not taught him how to stop. So along Earl went, his new eyes watering in the breeze, until he ran into a bear. Now I wish I could say he happened upon a bear, but as he could not stop his gait Earl literally ran right into the bear. The bear roared in disbelief at this wild looking creature who had to rudely disturbed him, and rose onto his back legs with his teeth bared. Earl felt no fear, cause he was still rather unsubstantial at this point, and so blinked once or twice and stood still. The bear toddled forward and grabbed a hold of Earl in his mighty arms. He squeezed Earl until hi eyes bulged and wrestled him to the ground. Unfortunately, Earl was so little that the bear hug did little to affect him, and the bear stepped back in surprise. Humbled by Earl's strength (or lack thereof) he bowed his head and grumbled an apology. As a sign of his sincerity, the bear took off his arms and placed them gently on Earl's slight frame. There they hung, furry and huge, and without knowing why Earl reached forward and embraced the bear. Thus Earl had arms, and because there is not much else to do with arms, he learned to hug.

TO BE CONTINUED...