book of short stories

Book of Short
Stories
PRINTED AND BOUND UNDER
SUPERVISION OF
K. E. KILLEEN, DIRECTOR OF
HANDIWORK
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2 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
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THE NEW CITY HALL
The new City Hall was started in 1929 and will be
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How I like to watch the men at work! I like to watch the
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    
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with the stones. The workers throw the broken bricks
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School No. 2 John Galante
* THE SONG OF THE LARK
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
Now she stops to listen. Hark!
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Peasant pictures he did paint
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School No. 64 Jean Parkes
LITTLE OWL GOLF COURSE
One day last summer my sister and I planned to make
     
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YOUR LITTLE FRIEND
THE FIFTH GRADE BOOK
Josephine Muscia
Dear Fifth Graders:
How do you do! I am the little book that you have
made. I have many little stories. They are very interest-
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    
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happy hours.
School No. 2
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Then one of the boys’ father said if my father would let
        
   
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
of tour seats was donated. It was a discarded cot bed.
The other two were auto seats we found in the dumps.

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        
        

the brushes. Between seven of us we found two brushes.
One of the brushes was two inches wide. The other was
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is how she did it. She would pickup up brick by brick
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did with our brushes. However she was whitewash from
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He speaks over the radio to the children sunday after-
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Our business continued until the cold weather start-
we made a horseshoe with the bricks. We found a toddy
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ber one. There were several of our playmates who asked
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        
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         




on the billboards on Walden Avenue west of the D.L.W
The other was tacked on our tree.
Of course we had only three sticks and two balls to
start with.
-

          
    

    
came to look on they interfered with the players. We
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would draw an eye with tears. When the were happy
-

us how to do it.
School No. 12 Cecelia Seifert
THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTRICITY
In the old Quaker city of Philadelphia the people were


Franklin who is now known as the famous discoverer




-



attached a metal key and a silk cord to hold on to.
-

        
         
touched the key. At last he had proven to himself that

-
came known all over the United Sates and Europe. We

School No. 1 Clar Gaeta



          -



School No. 64 Robert Schmerbach
* CANYON OF BEAUTY


Down at the bottom away it roars.

And the walls on the sides are oh so steep !

One mile below it has made its bed.

The Colorado River has done the task.
 Cecelia Seifert
CENTURIES OF RECORD KEEPING
Cecelia Seifert

          

          
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         
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 Concetta Limeri
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       
         
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          


save her.
Ther lived not far from the palace a lad whose name
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to the palace.
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          -
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his nose and mouth. Roland was near by and drew his
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SULPHUR
Lily Drewitt
Sulphur is a very important mineral product of the
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insects on them. There are many rubber thanks made
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face men bore deep wells into whcih they force hot wa-
ter. This melts the fulphur. Then they use compressed
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surface. When it cools it forms into hard yellow rocks.
Workmen will then blast the sulphur rock. Then the
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the United States.
School No. 6 Lily Drewitt
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a tree.
      
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dollars. I think the crowds of people who came to see it
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School No. 9 Ruth Mallon and Florence Ogorek


       

    

a baby lamb. He holds a crooked stick in his left arm.
      

can’t keep up with the others. I think this picture is very



The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

-
-
beth were married.
School No. 4 Nicholas Florko
THE LONE HAWK

    -

-

down and shot many bullets into the German’s cockpit.

German down. The victory was won. The American Ace
felt that a day’s work was done.
School No. 8 Henry Puattander
A PRIZE WINNER


-

        


reindeers. These were real ones that had been stuffed.

Santa’s eyes were blue.


 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
PICKNICKING
Some of the best times we have in the summer are

 


       

           

ride home.
 Carol Schaal
DANIEL BOONE
Daniel Boone was the leader of the early pioneers. he





-


-
-


in Kentucky. Boone built a fort to protect the territory
from the attacks of the Indians. Once Boone was cap-
yer and Huckleberry Finn.
-
   

promised mystery. But the promise was a fraud ther
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       
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you would like to know the outcome of this incident

School No. 15 Edgar Small
WHY THE OWL FLIES AT NIGHT


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
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

-
time since.
School No. 16 Jack Severson
8 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
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
up. He was only a week and a half old. In about three
days he could walk. Now we let him out. In a day or so
he seemed to like it better out than in. One afternoon I
took him out for a run and he ran away. I went to bed


School No. 22 Raymond Saar
COTTON
Cotton is raised in the southern part of the United
       -

for the owners of the cotton plantation. Before the cot-
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pick the seeds out of the cotton by hand. In 1916 the cot-
      
  -


into soap and salad oil. The United States raises more
cotton than any other country in the world. I would like
to see a cotton plantation.
School No. 25 Milton Gaiser
A FISHING TRIP
One nice day last summer my father and I decided to

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had lost her son. He pretended to like the Indians’ way
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
School No. 19 Robert Koen
THE STORY OF FIRE
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houses like ours to live in. They lived in caves where it
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




         
They discovered that it made the cave both warm and

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School No. 21 Ida Wolchok

TIPPY


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9 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
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I wish I lived there.
School No. 24 Virginia Cummings
RIDING ON A CLOUD
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
         

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

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School No. 26 Beatrice Mace
A SCARE
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
up to see what it was. He opened the door and looked
-
etbook lay on the table.

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was there. So he closed and locked the door. He went in
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
        

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
around into different spots. Finally I dropped my line
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  

everybody was happy.
 Douglas Schnorr
SHEEP IN SPRING
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      
        
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trees which lead to a farm house that is nestled down

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 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
        
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       
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
have been discovered in many parts of the world. Today
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museum in New York City.
Lately they discovered the skull and bones of the
        





yet it is very different.

men his work is very valuable for he thinks that he has
found the place where the oldest race in the world once
lived.
School No. 29 Robert Rogan

        
-


up his father sent him to a university to study.

to lock the front door. To his horror he found the door

-
ies around the town. About a month later they found the
men who did it. They were arrested and sent to prison.
 Louis Schroeder
OUR SAND TABLE

 -

-
-



house. Our sand table has helped to make the study of

School No. 28 Georgia West
AN EXPLORER OF THE GOBI DESERT
Dr. Roy Andrews and his party of forty men have
        

-
mals that are supposed to have lived millions of years

deeply into the sand for relics.
11 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES

bookofshortstories.com




        -
        



       



And so it ended.
 Grace Schallowhorn
ACE HIGH

-
als for records and tricks that no other aviator could
perform. When the World War broke out he went as

    
-



  

   -

tance. They think these are birds from heaven because

I like this picture because it is so colorful and because
of the story it tells.
 Robert Baxter
THE PARSON AND THE CLERK
There was once a parson who was such a tyrant that



  

parson who had to turn his horse.

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         

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
12 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com

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       

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
 Jemima Moyle
ORIGIN OF RIVERS

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
the valley below and formed a river. Ever since the we
have rivers.
 Rosaria Zizzo
WHY THE FIR TREE IS EVERGREEN

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


top of the airship so he could drop a bomb on it but ev-





-
ship and dropped a bomb on it and the German airship

and told his story. he received a medal for what he had
done. When the war was over he went home to his par-
-


 Benny Buchberg
THE YOUNG WOODCHOPPER
It was the last day of school and four boys were walk-
         


         

         
went.



       

 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com

    


nice man who seemed to be the mill superintendent

       
       

the dirt and straw and other impurities went to the bot-
     



 
syrup.
The syrup was then run into what was called vacuum
pans with heated copper coils in them. As it came out






         



home.



has its needles all the year round.
School No. 46 James Beam


       
           


tabled seemed ever so heavy.
         



         




  
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  
       
-
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called a machete. Then they loaded the canes on an open
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
his brother and stepped back onto the side of the blue
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 Jane Roehner
SIR GALAHAD
        
     
      
 -
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
Because he was so pure he could see the Holy Grail for

from which Our Lord drank at the Last Supper. Of all

In our room we have a very beautiful picture of Sr
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beside his snow white horse. His steed’s head is bend-

      -

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         
   
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       
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    -
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        
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melted in hot water and certain substances added to
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
-

-




15 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com

         
these rules. I will tell you a story about a boy who said



Safety rules but he never listened to them. One day he

course he didn’t look for cars but ran into the street. A
car came swiftly and hit him. The boy’s mother was



his lesson.
 Floyd Haker
A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT


robin and some tiny babies. The little infants were cud-
dled closely to their mother with their beaks open. The



petted the cat whom I dread.
School No. 41 Helen Friedman
THE HIKE IN THE WOODS
Last Saturday my friends and I started for the woods.
-


and pure like the characters in his pictures. This man

and went to Italy to study art. Watts painted a portrait
-

tiful poem about Sir Galahad. There are tow lines of if.


 Betty Ann Vaughan




The Indians used shells for money. They called these
        
skin. Purple clam shells were more valuable than white
shells.


-

 

 James Shelly
SAFETY FIRST
16 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
She is about seven months old now. She is as much
a noise maker as we children for she races all over the
    


-




probably will always.
 Edgar Burke

        
sure do do have fun.

down we cook our meals. We then wash dishes in water
which we carry in buckets from the lake.








-
niak.

After we had traveled two miles we came to the woods.
          

       

All at once Frank dropped to his knees and was dead.

School No. 42 Joseph Conk
THE NATIVITY


         

    

      


School No. 44 Peter Szmanda
KIT KAT
You may perhaps think that this is and old title but

  
about one month old. She was so thin and little my
mother said she would not be bothered with her. But

mother let me keep her.
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
  


    








on this river.
School No. 59 Lorraine Fuhrman

This beautify picture was painted by a famous artist

deep blue ocean in the country of Holland. He liked to
paint pictures of animals but best of all he liked to paint
pictures of sheep.


-

-
-




Girls are we.

Nice and Neat
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 Dorothy Krzesinska
OYSTER FISHING
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oysters are taken from Chesapeake Bay than any other

place in the world. Oysters live in shallow bays of salt
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        
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
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ters to market. Oysters are taken from the shells and
canned or they are packed in ice and transported.
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in the world.
School No. 58 Henry Majchrzak

18 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
town for supplies.
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
School No. 61 Donal Naegely
THREE PALS
Once upon a time in Germany lived three boys. They
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        
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   
chums and they set out on the trip to the woods.
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          
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         
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kind deed to a dumb animal.
 Evelyn Rohde

Last summer I went to the Thousand Islands. We
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      -
town. We stayed at a tourist’s camp on the banks of the
St. Lawrence River.
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        -
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in the United States and the other in Canada territory.
       
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


         

         
entirely cover them. All the people on the islands have

19 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
seeds are planted. About two weeks later little sprouts

it looks as if there had been a snow storm for the cotton
       


        
out. It is then packed in bales and sent to different cit-

         
Southern States.
School No. 65 Lucille Manthei
A DAY AT THE PARK
       

went to the park.

       

millions of tiny diamonds. It was an ideal day for skat-



-

School No. 66 Rosalie Hall
THE PONY EXPRESS

School No. 62 George Maurer



the work around the house. Her mother had promised



under the stove. When her mother learned what she had



so she went to the attic to hide. The hours passed very

       

and went downstairs only to learn her cousins had been




 Betty Yox
COTTON

is more useful than any other cloth we have. Would you

 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
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bookofshortstories.com

School No. 41 David O. Cooke



        






boy in school that day. When he went home for dinner

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 Palma Saviola
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         
What a pretty scene Humboldt Park was! The trees

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         
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         
room where we saw various stuffed birds. Other rooms
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press in our country.
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ships.
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        -
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They carried twenty pounds of mail.
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School No. 69 Billy W. Edmunds
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      
        
mind and wanted us to understand some of his fanciful
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ets and red caps trimmed with white feathers. They had
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       
       
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        -
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         
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 Joel Wofford
TOBY TYLER
Have you ever heard of Toby Tyler? I know him. I think
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little boy who lived with his Uncle Daniel. He ran away
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  
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
 Thomas Adair

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like me. They like to study other books that they think
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

-
um was over. We put on our wraps and were soon ready
for the pleasant ride home.
 Salvator Scime
SPRING
        

         
-

       

 


        

I think this is a very attractive outdoor scene of

 Bernice Learman
IN THE VALLEY
         
-
-

22 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
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

         

 
       
        
nose as he contentedly eats leaves from his master’s
hand.
I like this picture because it looks so peaceful and
real.
 Joseph Kaleta





-
plied mother.

broken off.
  





 Betty Schill
into their desks. They do not think that I have any feel-


covers with their favorite book. Then when they open
         
would be funny !
 Ann MacDonald
CHILDREN OF ANCIENT BRITAIN
      
was written by L. Lamprey. The important characters

a wild country which is now called Britain. Everybody
        

they would not break. When little Red Head was seven

spears and a few ornaments and trinkets with him. They

    


this skirmish so many Fint people lost their lives that
 
became friends. If you like adventurous stories I’m sure

 Richard Henning
A BOY WITH A RABBIT
 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES

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train comes and on the other side of the room we have a
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
at different stations.
 Carlton Gerbracht
CURIOSITY ONCE KILLED A CAT
         
-





-

bottles.
School No. 45 Donald M. Jenkins
A BLIZZARD IN CANADA





          

THE YOUNG WOODCHOPPERS
         




  


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
   

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
        

School No. 81 Fred Sepp




There were so many tracks with it that it took us

them so they pass behind the piano and take up nearly
the whole room.


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After what seemed hours we heard our names called.

the direction of the sound. We soon came upon David




School No. 54 Elizabeth White
FRIENDS AGAIN
     

-


-

that the Scoutmaster didn’t like and he put Red out of
-
ter this he was my worst enemy.
But a few weeks after that we went on a hike and
         

hotel. When it came time to eat I had lost my money.
The Scoutmaster asked the boys if they had found it but
they said no. They all we4nt out and looked for it but

       
-








I heard a chicken and I knew that it musty have come
-
house. I ran in the direction I heard the chicken. I kept

  


 

 Eunice Hayman
LOST IN THE WOODS

        

        
        



others would follow. It was not until we were very far


25 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS
A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES
bookofshortstories.com
       
Where the shadow fell at noon was marked and the rest
of the time was told by that mark.


on sunny days.

saw the sundial move a little. He watched it fa few days
and at last made a water clock. This kind of timepiece
was used for more than two thousand years.
       -
tance between the notches told the time.

for many years.


School No. 51 Charles Houck
THE VIKINGS

Norway and Sweden. They had ships with both sails

Eric the Red killed a man and was forced to leave home.
Then he found Iceland and made it his home. He had a
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


west until he discovered North America. They named
        


and I will have the other twenty cents. Bill and I want

paid for my lunch.


         
have had for himself.
School No. 55 William Mollwitz
LETCHWORTH PARK
Did you ever stop to think that it is not necessary to
travel hundreds of miles to see beautiful scenery? Here
in New York State are many splendid works of nature.
One which attracts many visitors is Letchworth Park.

       

-
ty. The colorful falls immediately attracts the visitor’s

rocks in the river. For anyone who cares for the works of

School No. 56 June Seufert

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