The Childhood Tale of M. Leon, an enchanting spring story by Bobo Choses

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Les Vacances de M.Leon 

 Monsieur Leon cycles around the campsite. 

It’s part of the summer, just like the heat, the mosquitoes, and the afternoon siesta. 

Monsieur Leon also has the habit of whistling contentedly. Indeed, he is so good at it  

that the larks prefer to listen to him, and the roosters refuse to  

greet the break of day because they cannot compete  

with Monsieur Leon’s dawn whistling. He starts on a low note, like a timid violin  

seeping in with the first sunbeams among the tents and the caravans,  

among the pine branches and the dew that the night drops before retiring… 

Bit by bit, Monsieur Leon’s whistling warms up and changes colour,  

enhanced by new notes of the voices of children just awakened from slumber. 

So begin the long happy summer days at the campsite,  

and so they go on, with no clocks to mark the hours passing by. 

When night falls once more, and Monsieur Leon thinks  

that everybody has gone to bed,  

he takes out his ukulele and there, on the steps of his caravan, 

plays songs that he learned from his grandmother, songs that are  

as old as this old world of ours. Or even older. 

And then all around him, in time with his beat, 

the crickets crick and the owls owl, and together they play 

the lullaby that sends us off to sleep   

and into a land of dreams as sweet 

as the salt of the sea in summertime, 

as the tickling of the grass under our bare feet… 

Tale by Felipe Cano 

© BOBO CHOSES 2012