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by The Giant One morning I was having my tomato soup. Then I looked out my window. I saw a huge green tree. I asked my wife. She said "That silly beanstalk. It's always coming up." So she went to do the ironing. I looked at it again. I said "A beanstalk, how strange for a thing like that. It shouldn't be growing itself up here." Just then I saw a tiny head, then a body, then legs. I quickly and quietly opened the door and hid behind the closet door. I looked out the keyhole on the side of the door. I accidently knocked something. I heard the little youngster say, "Doesn't sound good so far." "I missed him!" I said, so I opened the door. Then I followed him all the way to the gold room. I saw him picking up the bag of money that said "Money Collection". I got in the shape of a statue, then the youngster came up the staircase with the bag of money.He walked straight under my legs without noticing I was real. He looked nervous. As if he thought I was not a statue. Then he turned back around and started walking. In a couple of seconds he was out the door and down the beanstalk. The next day he came back. I saw him find the golden hen and the harp. He took both of them in both his tiny hands. He turned around. He climbed down the beanstalk. So did I. When he got down to the bottom he got an axe. I started climbing back up but it was too late. Then I noticed I was falling from the sky. Luckily I landed on my feet, but my feet really, really hurt then. Every single person was scared of me. So I walked to the country and I built a castle there, but nobody came to the country for a holiday ever again, and I lived happily ever after. But, I did miss my wife. March 2002 |
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