Could You Spare a Little Donkey Milk? What?

September 1964

I thought I heard of everything there is to know considering my age. Well, maybe not everything. I did not know that donkeys have milk. What did you say Ronan? Yes, I said that donkeys have donkey milk. I suppose it makes sense because this donkey in the story had a baby donkey. Fernando is a young kid from Chile and is trying to figure out how to make some money for his "Alabaster Box" I did not know what that was either so I had to look that up. An Alabaster Box can be used to put money in it and give the money to the church or the poor. He thinks up the idea for people to give money to him for a cup of donkey milk. Its 1964, didn't they have soda or something? Wasn't Mountain Dew around then? He asks his father for permission to sell the donkey milk to the neighborhood. Some woman gave him fifteen cents for a little cup of donkey milk. It says in the article that soon the whole street was drinking the donkey milk. One big happy family! Okay, the part I laugh about is the fact that Fernando would walk down the street and people would actually be waiting for him to milk the donkey and then give the person the donkey milk to drink. Its donkey milk people. I know Fernando was trying to fill up his Alabaster Box for God, and he was doing a great mission. I just can’t get the image of people waiting for Fernando to milk a nasty donkey, and then serve them this delicious drink. Of course Fernando was doing an admirable thing and in fact at the end of the story he not only fills one Alabaster Box but he fills three Alabaster boxes. How cool is that? He marched down the center aisle and presented the three boxes to the pastor at his church one Sunday afternoon. Got Donkey Milk?