Our story opens as we see Orson and his two sons, Booker and Sheldon sleeping on a flour sack. Just then, Roy came up to them and blew a horn in their faces. Which caused them to wake up.

"Get up you lazy bums!" He shouted. "Would you like an encore?"

Orson and the chicks glared at Roy and shoved the horn into his beak. Roy walked out to pull the horn out of his beak.

"Well it's time for breakfast Booker." Orson told Booker.

"Alright!" Booker jumped for joy "What are we eating daddy?"

"Here, I'll show you." Orson walked Booker to his pen.

It was a whole trough full of slop.

"This is my favorite." Orson showed Booker the slop "I'm sure you'll like it too."

Orson and Booker dived their faces into the slop and started eating. Just then, something fell on Orson's head.

"Huh?" Orson looked up at the sky and raindrops were falling "Looks like it's raining. We'd better get back into the barn until it blows over."

"Good idea." Booker followed Orson into the barn.

"We'll be nice and dry here." said Orson.

"AAAAHHH!" Someone ran into the barn.

"Is it just me, or was that a duck in an inner tube running into the barn out of the rain?" Orson asked Booker.

"A duck?!" the duck jumped onto Orson "Inner tube? Where?!"

"And does he seem a bit nervous?" Orson asked again.

The duck looked down and saw Orson and screamed and hid behind a stall.

"I'll go introduce myself." Orson walked to the duck "Hi. I'm Orson. What's your name?"

"My name is Wade." The duck walked over to Orson.

"Why do you always wear that inner tube?" Orson asked Wade.

"Cause you never know." Wade whispered.

"That's kinda scary." Orson pointed out.

Orson and Wade walked over to the other side of the barn to have a talk.

"You seem to be the nervous type Wade." said Orson.

"I know." said Wade "I'm a panaphobe."

"What's that?" asked Orson.

"It means I'm afraid of everything." Wade explained.

Just then, Orson saw Sheldon walking towards Wade.

"Then how do you feel about eggs with feet?" Orson showed Sheldon.

Wade looked down and saw Sheldon.

"AAAHHHH!" Wade jumped onto Orson "An egg with feet! It's just not natural!"

"That's enough to give an egg a complex." Sheldon remarked.

Orson sat Wade down on a flour sack and they continued to talk.

"So tell me Wade," he said to his new friend "What is your biggest fear?"

"Water." said Wade.

"But I thought ducks liked water." said Orson.

"Between you and me, ducks aren't very bright." Wade whispered to Orson.

"I think I see what you mean." Orson remarked "Well, the rain has stopped. Why don't we go outside for a walk?"

"Sure Orson." said Wade.

Orson and Wade walked out of the barn to the humid outdoors. They leaned down on the fence.

"Why are you afraid of water Wade?" Orson asked him.

"Because it's wet." Wade answered.

Orson gasped "You don't say?!"

"I do say." said Wade "Well, I'm going into the barn."

Meanwhile, Roy saw Wade and this gave him a very sneaky idea.

Wade was walking in the barn when all of a sudden...

Roy jumped out "BOO!"

"AAAHHH!" Wade screamed.

Roy laughed and walked over to Orson.

"I can see we're gonna have some fun with Wade." Roy laughed.

"That's not nice Roy." said Orson "Sometimes, you can be jus plain cruel."

Booker jumped out at Wade "BOO!"

"AAAAHHHH!" Wade shouted.

"Booker!" Orson scolded the chick. "Come with me Wade."

Orson walked Wade to the flour sacks. They both sat down.

"Wade, you're too tense." said Orson "You must learn to relax."

"How do I do that?" asked Wade.

"Start by lying down." suggested Orson.

Wade lied down on his back, but his inner tube didn't.

"How am I doing?" He asked.

"It's a start." Orson sighed.

"Well, I'm going outside." Wade walked outside.

Just then, Wade bumped into Roy.

"Boy, you're afraid of everything aren't you Wade?" Roy smugly asked "I'll bet you're even afraid of your own shadow."

"What shadow?" asked Wade.

Roy pointed to Wade's shadow.

"AAAHHHH!" Wade screamed and jumped into a bush.

"Boy, you really enjoy picking on people's fears don't you Roy?" Orson glared at Roy.

"It's what I live for." Roy laughed.

Orson and Booker walked over to the bush that Wade was hiding in.

"I swear Booker," Orson said to his adopted son "Your Uncle Wade is afraid of everything."

"I'm not." Wade shouted from the bush.

"Then why are you disguised as a bush?" Orson asked Wade.

"Camouflage is very fashionable, that's why." Wade rose from the bush.

Orson walked away "Disguised as a bush, I don't believe it."

Orson then came back with a bale of hay on him.

"A bale of hay, now that's the way to go." he said.

Orson then ran into Wade, who was still wearing the bush and then he ran into Sheldon who had a stick tied to himself.

"I think this disguise business has gotten out of hand." Orson remarked and turned to Sheldon "And what're you supposed to be?"

"I'm a stick." said Sheldon.

As soon as Orson, Wade and Sheldon took off their disguises Booker came with something in his hands.

"Hi Sheldon! Hi daddy! Hi Uncle Wade!" Booker waved to them.

"What's that you got there Booker?" Orson asked Booker.

"Binoculars." Booker said "They make things from far away seem so big."

"Oh let me see." Wade reached for the binoculars.

"Here, Uncle Wade." Booker handed Wade the binoculars.

Wade was looking through the binoculars and was amazed.

"Boy." said Wade "These binoculars make everything seem so big."

Wade turned down to a bug and saw it close up though the binoculars.

"AAAHHHH!" He screamed.

"Imagine being afraid of a little bug." Booker remarked.

"Wade you sissy," Orson picked up the binoculars "You shouldn't be afraid of a bug."

Orson looked at the bug through the binoculars.

"OH MY GOD!" He shouted.


Author's Note:

Looks like there's another member of the US Acres family has come to the farm! Looks like Orson now has two adopted kids and two good and colorful friends. But the family's gonna keep growing! Just you wait! Stay tuned!