The boy and his family lived a long time ago, and they lived up in a tree, as everyone did, because there were no houses then.
Every day, when the boy walked across the field, a monster would chase him, and try to eat him, and every day the boy would run really fast and get away.
One day, the boy was feeling grumpy. When the monster chased him, he did not want to run really fast. He did not want to run at all. Instead, he turned around and shouted "STOP" as loud as he could. The monster was so surprised that it did stop.
"Why do you always chase me and try to eat me?" asked the boy.
"I always eat people," explained the surprised monster. "What else could I eat?"
"You could eat vegetables," said the boy. "That's what my family eats all the time."
"I guess I can try vegetables," answered the monster. "Are they hard to catch?"
"You don't catch vegetables at all, you just pick them," said the boy. "You sure don't know very much." Which may have been true, but was not a very nice thing to say, especially to a monster you have just met.
So the boy invited the monster home for dinner, which shows how much he knew, inviting a boy-eating monster home.
But it all worked out fine; the boy's Mother made them all vegetables for dinner, and the monster really liked them. In fact, the monster liked vegetables so well, there was hardly anything left for anyone else.
"Maybe you should grow your own vegetables," the boy suggested. "I can show you how tomorrow."
So the next day, the boy and the monster met at the field, and the boy showed the monster how to dig up the ground and plant seeds. "That looks like a lot of work," said the monster, "more work than chasing people." The boy could see that he better think of something pretty fast, and he did.
"Chase me!" he shouted, and started running across the field. The monster chased him, and after a while his sharp claws had dug up the whole field. "Stop!" shouted the boy, and he showed the monster how easily he had dug up the field.
"Now roar your loudest roar!" said the boy, and the monster roared his loudest roar, and while he was roaring the boy threw all the seeds up in the air, and they blew all around the field. "Stop!" shouted the boy again, and he showed the monster how easily he had spread all the seeds.
"I guess that wasn't so much work, after all," said the monster, "which vegetable shall we eat first?"
"Radishes are the quickest," said the boy, "but they won't be ready for a week." Then he thought "are you very hungry?" Luckily for the boy, the monster was not very hungry, and said he didn't mind waiting a week for the radishes.
They decided they would tell each other stories every day, while they waited for the radishes to grow. The boy had only a few stories, but the monster had lots! He told stories about places he had gone to, by flying through the sky, and swimming beneath the sea. He told the boy about secret treasures he had found.
"Do you have lots of treasure?" asked the boy. Then the monster told him how he always got tricked out of the treasures he found, and the boy thought that was not fair.
"We could go on adventures together," he said. "They wouldn't be able to trick both of us."
And that is just what happened, but that will be the next story.