Kids Korner - Mr. Hubert's Problem
By Powell Brown
Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", January 2007, page 10
A cirrus cloud drifted over Mr. Huber's yard. "Blasted clouds!" he
bellowed, shaking his fist at it. He was trying to see what exact color his CD
125 Brookfield was, and the cloud blocked the light. As the cloud passed, Mr.
Hubert's temper did, too. He went back to studying his insulator.
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Mr. Hubert, as
you have just read, has a terrible temper, especially when something interrupts
his work. So, naturally, when the doorbell echoed throughout his house, you can
guess what happened. Mr. Hubert slowly lowered his head, and then -- Mr. Hubert
smiled joyously. He swam over to the door (literally; he had accidentally
flooded his house while washing insulators earlier that day), and opened the
door. After the water gushed out, a delivery boy said, "I 'ave a paper for
you to sign, Mister." Mr. Hubert signed the paper, snatching the box away
that the delivery boy had been holding, as if the boy could damage the precious
package. Mr. Hubert slammed the door shut and opened the box. Out came an
insulator of a whole new CD type. "Oooh, he sighed, Dark Purple, No...
wait. Cobalt? Amber?" He rushed outside, mumbling to himself, "Deep
Teal? Dark Olive? Black Glass?" He then looked up. "Blasted
clouds!" This is Mr. Hubert's regular routine.
He was so upset, he ran back
into his house and into his bedroom. Two minutes later, he ran out of the room
with a strange assortment of light bulbs. He strung them together all through
the house, plugging cords in wherever he could. Then, right when he plugged in
the last cord, ZZZTTZzzzzz. (Bloop). The house suddenly went dark. Mr. Hubert
sighed. Obviously, making his own cloudless light wouldn't work. To cheer
himself up he made a cold cup of Ovaltine, then he looked at his glass of
chocolate milk, his mind made a connection. He rushed to his box of candles. He
lit one, and looked at it through one of his insulators. The insulator looked
milky! "Aha!" he cried, "it wasn't the clouds! My insulator has
milk!"
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