Henry's Gift For Flip

"WHY DIDN'T YOU BOW TO THE KING AS ORDERED?" Flip heard Konoka ask Henry furiously.

"YOU WERE TOLD TO BOW, MISTER," Alvie yelled at Henry furiously. "THE CAPTAIN ASKED YOU A QUESTION! WHY DID YOU LIE TO THE CAPTAIN?"

Flip was still hidden from the king and his guards as he heard the whip being cracked as well as Henry's terrified screams coming from the alley.

"This king does not deserve even the slightest vow of respect!" Henry answered the guards defiantly.

Flip climbed the wall from his hiding spot.

"Just who do you think you are, Mister? Answer me!" Konoka commanded Henry.

Flip swung from the wall.

"WELL, ANSWER HIM!" Alfie commanded Henry furiously.

"WELL THEN, YOUNG FOOL," Flip heard the captain yell furiously as he slid down the windmill and a railing. "IT'S TIME YOU LEARNED SOME RESPECT!"

The guards were about to strike Henry with their whips again.

"No," Henry shouted. "no! Stop! No! No! No!"

Flip watched on from his new hiding place behind a gorilla statue.

Flip then pushed the gorilla statue off the beam in order to distract the king and his guards.

One of the guards' horses was spooked by the noise.

"Whoa! Whoa! Stop! Whoa Boy!" the captain called out.

"Captain!" Alfie & Chauncey called our running & flying after Konoka.

Flip ran over to Henry and proceeded with his rescue plan.

"Quick," Flip told Henry urgently. "we've got to get out of here before they come back!"

Henry gasped as Flip helped him get home.

When they finally made it back to town, Henry began to talk to Flip.

"You've been very kind, my young friend!" Henry told Flip.

"I just want to make sure you get home all right." Flip said trithfully to Henry.

Henry just then opened the door to his house and he led Flip inside.

Flip gasped, he was amazed by what he was now seeing.

"Uh... I... I think I'd better be going, Sir." Flip said honestly to Henry.

But Henry grabbed Flip by the shoulder.

"Don't leave yet, my young friend, I hardly had the chance to thank you." Henry said to Flip.

Henry then grabbed a magic pencil holder and pencils appeared before Flip's brown eyes.

"I've never seen anything like that before." Flip said as Henry picked up the colored pencils.

"Each of us has special talents of our own, one day, you will find yours." Henry explained to Flip.

Flip saw Henry revealing a book he was writing.

"That's beautiful, Sir, are you an artist?" Flip asked Henry.

"In a way, yes," Henry answered Flip. "I illustrate words... secret words and make them beautiful."

"That's what I want to do," Flip said to Henry. "I want to paint pictures that are so real, people will think they're alive."

"Ah! Do you? Well," Henry said to Flip. "if that is what you want, then, I will help you."

Henry opened a big wooden chest and pulled out a special paint set with a very special paintbrush within it.

Flip gazed at the box.

"Oh, here it is," Henry said to Flip. "this, my friend, is for you, this brush has been used to adorn the words of life... the power of life is in each touch, it will help you to paint pictures that you see with your eyes."

"My eyes? Well, how else would I see?" Flip asked Henry curiously.

"One day," Henry told Flip. "you will learn to see with your heart, and then, you'll no longer have need of a brush."

Flip took the paints in his hands, "Thank you, Sir, thank you very much." he said to Henry.

"You needn't thank me, my friend," Henry said to Flip. "let your pictures be the thanks."

Henry and his home vanished from Flip's sight.

Flip found himself back outside on the street, "What? Where'd he go?" he asked feeling confused.

Flip got the paints and the brush that Henry had given him, and began to paint a beautiful white dove.

Once his picture was finished, Flip saw that his dove had magically come to life and it was now flying far away from his view.

Flip gasped, "Yes!" he exclaimed, running off to tell his friends what had occurred while he laughed gleefully.