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Edna could hear the faint sound of their heavy boots. She shuddered every time their boots tip-toed on the hard-wood floor. “Where is it?” A gruff voice growled. It was in the middle of the night. Two men approached Edna and Edith’s room.

“We ain’t doing much good here. We could just go to the people’s house across the street. We know where they have hiding places.”

It was the last day of school and the beginning of vacation - that wonderful time when kids could sit around doing absolutely nothing. Bobby and Beth shouted goodbye to their teachers and climbed into the bus for their happy ride home. "Well," said their mother after a couple days of vacation, "would you like that?"

"Like what?" asked Bobby.

"Oh,it's just something that came in the mail," said Mot...

There once was a merry farmer who had purchased an ass to carry things for him. One day he merrily traveled to town, because he needed to purchase salt. Although he had done this many times this was the first time he was doing it with the ass. There were lots of obstacles such as hills and streams but he was not very worried. All went well on the way there but on the way back........ Well that was a different story.

After getting to ...

Maybe it was the snow that made me happy, or maybe it was the snowman that I was building. The big ball was in place along with the medium and small balls. I looked at my watch: 5:37. Was it really that late? I had just left the house. That was at three o’clock. I should really be going home, but I just was so happy here. I’d put the buttons in place, and then go home. When I had finished, I looked at my watch: 5:46. I’d better run! I ran as fast as I c...

A long time ago not to far away from here there was a mighty kingdom called: Popetal. Now you may think of this as a silly name, but that did not matter to the people that lived in the kingdom. One day the king was in his royal carriage, and a young boy ran across the road, right in front of the carriage.

Before you could exclaim: my mad king ate meat, the king bellowed: “What did you do that for? Don’t you have any respe...

“I don’t like fairy tales!” Jason shouted. “I like adventure stories. You know, the ones about going into houses, and finding dead bodies lying all over the floor…”

“That’s enough!” Jill declared. “I think we have had enough of this nonsense. Jason, please do not talk about such cruel and unnecessary things.”

“Oh, I don’t k...

“There,” David said with a smile. “I am done.”

“And just in time too,” said a voice behind him. David whirled around and there stood his friend Charles.

“Why do you say that, Charles?” David asked with a confused expression on his face.

“Don’t you remember?” Charles said. “We are going on our f...

A farmer, who was stricken by rapidly spreading cancer, longed for his farm and family to prosper. His sons were very idle, and he realized they would be careless in tending the land. He told them “Because I am dying of cancer I must tell you, there is a wonderful treasure in one of our fields.” After their father’s death, the sons took their spades and dug over all the land, but they found no treasure. Because of their hard work they had an abundant cr...

Once upon a time there was an Elf named Ariel. She loved to explore the elf town but her father warned her never to go outside Elfville. He said there were giants who called themselves people that would eat them if they could. One day as Ariel was playing with her 2 younger brothers and there mouse a loud noise came from outside she looked out and saw huge giants she asked her father what they were he said "people" they cut a path right through there town. Carts came through day after day. On...

Once, not far from a little red church lived five children. Russel, Anne, James, Benjamin and Lou. One warm Sunday, the five children went out behind the church. There was an old building that used to be a store, but wasn’t used any longer. Also there was, beside the store, a cellar. The children wanted to go into the little cellar, so James went in first to see if it was safe. While he was down there, he found a shoe. It was a high-heeled shoe that was in good sha...

Gettysburg would be Meade’s biggest victory of his career and biggest mistake of his life. What caused the Gettysburg battle? It was the roads, 10 in fact, that lead directly into the town. Hearing Mead was in Pennsylvania and because of his win in Chancellorsville, Lee concentrated his army in Gettysburg. The battle began as the armies collided northwest of the town. John Buford slowed the confederates but as Confederate reinforcements arrived and the confederates won the town. The Uni...

There once was a girl named Christy. One day she was walking to the park with her dog. She was whistling a happy tune when suddenly she stopped and looked up. There, looking at her was a very rich, but unhappy looking lady, on her balcony.

Christy asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” the lady retorted quickly.

“Oh well, Okay, then,&#...

Trees are wonderful. They not only provide shade but fruit, lumber, and protection as well as many other benefits.

I still remember when I was about 5 years old, going to take a look at a house in the country. After moving into the house we found that although they had planted a tree line, there were no fruit trees on the property. The people that had lived here had been here for over 40 years! One of the first things that we did was pl...