Make Sure You Help Others, Not Just Yourself By Joshua

Once upon a time, there was a big boy. His name was Tom. He asked his mom and dad if he could go and look for his lost sister. Her name was Shilan. And one day he went exploring out in the woods. And a bear chased him down to a pond that it had rained so much that it had grew over all the land, except the tallest hills. The tallest hills looked like tiny rocks. And then he went along and jumped from tiny rock to tiny rock. And then found a boxcar, except its' pieces were all falling apart. So he decided to not live in it. And then he found another boxcar that was perfect to live in. Except he did not know there was a train right next to it, but not coupled.

And then it turned to night and he made a pine needle bed in the boxcar and went to sleep quite quickly. And then a dog barked and woke him up. And then he opened the door and saw a dog with his back paw up with a big needle in it. He pulled and pulled and finally got it out. And then he made a smaller bed for the dog to sleep in and wet a handkerchief and put it in the sore. They slept good, but something went wrong. A tree fell over and fell right beside the car and make so much wind that the car went very fast down the hill. It kept going along the rail until it hit some buffers and went so fast backwards that it crashed into a train that was right in front of the boxcar when it started. It hitched up to the train. And then the boy went into the train and tried to get it moving and it finally did. It moved forward and then he kept going and going until he came to a volcano that erupted right that second. And then he tried to make the train go really, really fast to get past the volcano quickly.

What he was doing the whole time was looking for his lost sister. He finally found her and kept dancing and dancing together with his sister, Shilan. And then they lived together in the boxcar because their father and mother had died while he was gone. And they had a good time and then they had a good feeling that day. Then the boy remembered that he had left the dog where the boxcar used to be and he asked his sister to get in the boxcar and she did. And then he jumped into the train and hurried and hurried and bumped into a car full of fruit that was coupled to a people car and then he went really fast backwards to the volcano. And asked everybody to get into the boxcar and the people train. Then they went back and picked up the dog. Everybody had fun with the dog and eating a lot. They all lived happily ever after.

The End.

(Joshua has been listening to The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner)