Tales of Yore

[Delthion]

This is the thread where we post stories that we wrote when we were young, it has to be either cringe worthy, or written when you were ten or younger. And as always, keep it clean!

[Mhera]

My story is undated, but I found some old sketches from when I was 11 in the folder, so that's the age I'm dating my fic at. Ha! Saved by the rules!

[Delthion]

But is it cringe worthy? If it is then you still can post it!

[BlueRose]

 Oh gosh. If I only had access to "Within the Walls" on my phone. I still can't reread the thing without dying a little inside. (But that probably happens when you're supposed to be doing 7th grade math and end up writing a dumb story instead...)

[Mhera]

But is it cringe worthy? If it is then you still can post it!

I just read through it. The only thing that made me really cringe is how much the plot was ripped off of Eragon. Besides that it was better than I remember it being. So ten is probably a good cut-off age, I'll start digging deeper...

[James Gryphon]

This is an example of one of the stories I wrote when I was a good deal younger, back in '03. This needs a fair amount of explanation to make sense. Back in '01, I wanted to set up my own "forum", like the bulletin boards that were popular back then. The software to make that happen wasn't nearly as accessible as it is now, and I was just a kid, so I did something rather unique. I made a folder on my hard drive, then put in text files and pretended they were 'posts'. The forum expanded from one or two folders to a massive directory rivaling our real forum here. There was a mod forum and everything.

The members on this forum... me and my mom. My dad made three or four posts, but other than that it was just the two of us. There was something like twenty accounts, though, with me playing I-don't-know how many characters, including moderators, average people, spammers, and other troublemakers.

I had a lot of inspiration from a bulletin board that a software company ran. It had distinct communities for each of its games, with their own distinct cultures. The forums I tended to look at had a strong tradition of RPing, or what they called "webstories". This was not unlike the RPing you know today, except that they were about galactic empires fighting it out, and so there were a lot of space battles, tech research, and fleets with numbers of ships.

Anyway, when I made my 'forum', I wanted to have my own 'webstory'. The first one, "The Waterlog", featured my main moderator-character, "theOtter" (a Redwall influence) fighting it out with another guy, "Moondog". Meanwhile, my mother's three characters were on the fringes of this, suffering collateral damage from the war. "theOtter" started out as the bad guy, but there was a flip-flop, and they switched sides. Then, in a spinoff that took over the story, "The Hurricane Crisis", a hurricane blew through, made everyone's lives difficult, and they all made up and lived happily until the next story.

That leads us in to this tale, "The Confederation Defeat". It's an unfinished story, unlike the Hurricane Crisis. I regret that, and would like to post up a finished one, but reading through the Waterlog and Hurricane Crisis makes me hurt, and I'll need a while before I can even muster up the pain tolerance to read it myself, much less letting any of you see it.  

Seal
Apr01
Sea    
Member
RP: 0               This story is the Confederation Defeat, based on the Waterlog.
Captain Otter- Confederation-Blue
Privateer Seal- Coracon Rebels-Red
Eagleyes&Friends-Traders-Yellow
Escort Falcon-Escort Traders-Purple
Evildrone Krow-Viking Raiders-Cyan
Otter has 3,000 men and three ships, The Queen Mary (Flagship, Clipper) El Bino Otter (Caraval), and the Trident Otter (clipper. Seal has five unamed frigates and 2,590 men. Eagleyes&Friends have three Caravals and 5,000 men. Escort Falcon has one Clipper and sixteen Triremes and 320 men.
Feel free to join!
You have a limit of 90 ships.
Don't use knowledge that you don't know yet.
Give your prey time to fight back.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20          

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20  

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld                              
Moderator
RP:--           We are sailing back to the shore, back to our trading port to buy new goods to sell,  so we can go from port to port and look for buyers. Perhaps we can find someone at our trading port who is looking for goods but has no way of transporting them now. We prefer to travel together for safety purposes.

Seal
Apr01
Sea    
Member
RP: 0      I send out my five frigates to intercept the three caravals. RESULTS: Eagleyes will have to repair next turn. Birdman will have to repair in three turns. Chichawk will have to repair in two turns.

Falcon
Apr01
On the Mountain with Striking Eagle and Hawkeye.
Member
RP:0              I ram three of his frigates in my Triremes. My Clipper sits. RESULTS: Six Triremes have been sunk of my 20 Triremes. Two Frigates remain.

smogthedragon
Guest
RP Status: Armor                I swoop down at Captain Eagleyes and carry him up into the air with my mighty dragon claws.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20  

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld                              
Moderator
RP:--       We immediately screech. All of our crew, as well as we, begin shooting arrows at smogthedragon. Falcon sees the problem. We implore him for help as we continue to shoot.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20           For a moment I am dumbfounded. What has happened? I am in incruciating pain from the claws. There is fire flying from his mouth but as I am not in the way I do not feel it. I see my friends, and suddenly I know what I have to do. I have bow and arrows on my back. I struggle to reach them and finally I have them in hand. I pull back, aim at his tender belly and fire.

Falcon
Apr01
On the Mountain with Striking Eagle and Hawkeye.
Member
RP:0                  The Dragon, not injured fatally but it is injured enough that it has to swoop out of arrow range. It snaps Eagleyes bow and arrow as well. Falcon watchs when he has a idea. He gets a bow and fires at Smog. He is injured enough so that he has to swoop away, not above, but down to the water and far away from arrows.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Administrator
RP: --                       Otter, dressed in leader armor and wielding a large Otter leader sword, jumps into the water. He swims to Smog and slash quickly five times. Eagleyes falls out of Smog's Claws. Otter thrusts six times at the dragon. Smog slashs at Otter with his claws. Smog starts to fly up until they are very high up. Otter thrusts and slashs and repels while the Dragon slashs and rip and scratchs at Otter. The two combatants continue fighting while the Dragon continues to fly higher.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20  

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld                              
Moderator
RP:--          We fly out to the battle site. LittleBirdy grabs for Eagleyes, dragging him slowly back toward the ships. Eagleyes is injured but not fatally. However, he doesn't seem able to fly at present. The ships are heading for the battle site also. The dragon seems to have lost his fire power.

smogthedragon
Guest
RP Status: Armor                       I fly up, up, up taking the Otter with me. My left wing doesn't work, but I take to the air and hiss at Chichawk. My sharp claws rip at Chichawk, knocking him out. Otter is ripped at and is now injured but his armor is really tough, because he has no broken bones at all.

Seal
Apr01
Sea    
Member
RP: 0                      I fly in my frigate to Smog. I pick up a now bleeding Chichawk and fly back to my territory where he is put in the Royal Medical Center.

smogthedragon
Guest
RP Status: Armor    My claws rip out and put a large hole in Birdman's Caraval.I hit Eagleyes vessel and put a hole in it also. Finally, the same happens to Chickhawks vessel. Now I am so badly injured that my special dragon fire powers are no longer able to work. I can still fly a little though, and my claws are as sharp as ever. I also have damaged Otter's armor more, but Otter is gallently fighting more, but he will not win unless help arrives.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20      I see theOtter fighting still, and I know that smogthedragon is badly injured. It is time to end this, because I am sure smog will try to escape with theOtter. The trick is to hit the dragon without hitting theOtter and to do it in such a way that he drops theOtter and we can save him. I signal to the other ships to be prepared to rescue theOtter. I tell Falcon and Seal I intend to use my best marksman at the cannon and blow smog to pieces. It will be one less dragon to fight in the future. They acknowledge my signal and wait. My marksman aims and I yell, "Fire."

smogthedragon
Guest
RP Status: Armor                            OOC: Err, I don't think you can do that. (Quote) I fly in my frigate to Smog. I pick up a now bleeding Chichawk and fly back to my territory where he is put in the Royal Medical Center. (End Quote)  And this: (Quote)Finally, the same happens to Chickhawks vessel. (End Quote) See? You can't be on the sea if you are in Seal's Royal Medical Center. And besides that, your caraval is damaged. The only way you can possibly have your ship out there is if someone comes over here, tugs your ship home, repairs it, and you recover from your injury in time to board it, go back to me (If I'm still here) and fight me.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20  I reject Birdman's wish to take me to the medical center. I can still fight and I get behind the nearest cannon and aim. Fire ... My strike is sure. I hit him in the heart and theOtter falls ...

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Administrator
RP: --                      Otter, with his last strength, thrusts at the Dragon and does the final blow that kills Smog. The Dragon falls into the water. Otter swims over and clings to Eagleyes vessel, one of the two ships not going to sink. Suddenly, the Queen Mary  shoots out. The Queen Mary goes into escort formation. The Trident Otter  races in, opens a thing with Chichawks vessel, and tugs it into port.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20   I now ask Birdman to take me to the Royal Medical Center. We get there and the doctor has just finished bandaging up Chichawk. He will have to stay in the hospital for a while, but he thinks he will be OK. The doctor now starts his work on the Otter and I wait my turn. Otter may be in worse condition that all of us.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Administrator
RP: --                    Otter wakes up in the Royal Medical Center. OTTER: Where am I? The last place I was in was on the sea, fighting Smog. Who won the battle? Did the Freedom Fighters (us) kill Smog or was everybody besides the people who retreated in time murdered by Smog?

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20     Relax, Otter. You are in the Royal Medical Center with me and Chichawk. Everything is fine. The doctor says we are all going to be OK. We won, man. I shot Smog with the cannon and you were the one giving him the final thrust of death. When he fell into the water, you managed to make it to my ship and they brought you here.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Administrator
RP: -                           Who owns this Royal Medical Center? How much does it cost? What happened to my armor and sword? How badly injured am I? And if it does cost something, do I have to pay?

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20           Seal owns this Royal Medical Center. I have no idea how much it cost and I am not sure how we all are going to pay. We have all been treated here so we are all concerned about it. You are the most badly injured but even I don't know how injured that it. Birdman has your armor; it is damaged. I am not sure if it can be repaired because that is not my line of expertise as you know. But the armor, my friend, saved your life. The sword, the last time any of us saw it, was in the belly of smog. It went down with him.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Administrator
RP: -                          WHAT?! SEAL OWNS THIS! I AM AT WAR WITH SEAL! WHY AM I IN HIS ROYAL MEDICAL CENTER? HE PROBABLY WILL COST ME 9,000 PIECES! MY SWORD WAS IN MY ARMOR. I PROBABLY WILL HAVE TO PAY EVERYONES BILL'S SO I WILL HAVE TO PAY 30,000 PIECES OF GOLD!

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member  
RP: 20       Settle down or you will be here even longer than you think. I doubt he is going to overcharge you just because you are you and you too are at war, because we were all at war against the dragon and your assistance in the defeat benefited him too so I am sure he will keep that in mind when you get your bill. And no, all the rest of us can pay our bill. You are just overreacting. Must be the medication.

Seal
Apr01
Sea    
Member
RP: 0                        Seal gets into his Frigate to look for Smog to see where he died in battle. When he finds the spot he gasps: nine tiny dragons are looking down at the dead Smog. Seal rushs back to tell the bad news.

Seal
Apr01
Sea    
Member
RP: 0                  Seal gets back to port and rushs into the Royal Medical Center. He says, one repaired eyesight for Seal. And I would also like to talk with the new ones. Seal walks into the rooms. SEAL: Otter? OTTER: WHAT! YOU ARE HERE? SEAL: Yes, and I bring bad news. OTTER: Yes? What is it? SEAL: Nine tiny spardrags* are near Smog's dead body. OTTER: OH NO! That doesn't mean I have to fight nine more of those creeps.
* (A spardrag is a baby dragon the size of a large sparrow)

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member
RP: 20  
Posts: 4         No, you can't leave the hospital yet. You know that. Doc says I can go today. Since Birdman didn't get to see any action last go with the dragon, he can help me go fight these spardrags. Better to get them when they are small.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20
Posts: 3      I want to go to.

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 4   Well, you can't, Chichawk. You and Otter sustained much damage and you are not in any condition to be leaving the hospital, especially to fight spardrags. If the rest of us can't handle this without the help of you too, the entire area is up for grabs from anybody who wants it. What should we do first?

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member
RP: 20  
Posts: 4     Seal, I think we should take our ships and you take your frigate and lead us to the scene. We will think get every one of our archers shooting at the pesky spardrags. If that doesn't work, we may have to do hand-to-hand combat like we dig with Smog. Birdman and I are prepared to do that. Does that sound like a good plan to you?

Falcon
Apr01
On the Mountain with Striking Eagle and Hawkeye.
Member
RP:0
Posts: 2

HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME AND MY TRIREMES?

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 6       Everybody needs to come along because who knows how quickly those spardrags grow. Did they have fire coming out of their mouth yet, Seal? That would change how close we get to them. Or how we plan the attack.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member
RP: 20  
Posts: 6         Well, I think we had best head for the sea and get rid of these spar dogs. The longer we stand around and talk the larger they are growing and it puts fear even in my heart to have to meet another smog-size dragon. I know they can't grow that fast, but no sense in taking chances. I wonder if there are any more dragons out there. We can't worry about that now. Let's go. The more, the merrier.

Seal
Apr01
Sea    
Member
RP: 0
Posts: 2            No, there wasn't any fire flying from their mouths.

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 6            Well, then let's go.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
Member
RP: 20  
Posts: 6             Eagleyes and Birdman head out to the sea in Eagleyes' trade ship with Eagleyes telling his crew to get ready with the bows and arrows. "We must shoot this pesky spardrags," Eagleyes said.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 20                   Otter starts to get into his armor and takes his sword.

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 11         "Faster, Eagleyes, I see them now. We are almost within arrow's reach. How many did he say there were? It looks like there are 20."

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 9      We are close enough now. Shoot my friends. Shoot. Aim for their hearts or their heads. The hearts are better. I talk an arrow myself but it seems the more we shoot the more they scatter. One drops, screaming a death wail. That leaves eight. "Look, Birdman, who is that coming in the ship? Is it Otter? Is he supposed to be out of bed? What is he doing?"

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 11      "It is Otter! Get him away from here. He is ill. His doctor will be furious. I told him we could do this without him. I will take flight and stop him, send him back to bed. You handle this, Eagleyes."

spardrags
Guest    

We grab the Otter inside the Clipper, known as the Trident Otter  and start to carry the Otter to land. The other four spread out far and move in to fight. The reason we spread out is so you won't wipe us all out with one shot.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 10

I see Birdman flying to theOtter and then I see the spardrags scattering and catching theOtter. I tell my crew to follow us and I take flight. I start flying for the spardrags and theOtter. I yell for Birdman to come. Let's fight and save our friend.

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 12      I jump in and fight. We are raging. I have two spardrags chasing me. I fly straight to the spardrags with Otter and fight. Eagleyes is there. We fell two more spardrags. There are six left and they are still carrying Otter.

spardrags
Guest                 We fly at top speed to land. When we get there, we carefully drop Otter down to the Royal Medical Center. Then we fly back and start to rip at Birdman.

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 12     "Help, help, help! They are trying to kill me!" I stab at them with my knife, but as I fight, the knife falls. All I have left is my claws and I stretch them out in desperation. I wound two of the spardrags and have a little air to breathe.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 10      These spardrags. They must be destroyed. I yell for Falcon. We need help if we are going to defeat the little fireeaters. I go hand to hand with one and fell it. There are five left. It looks as if Birdman has injured two. As I go to finish them, another healthy one attacks me.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Top Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 31               The 24 archers on the Trident Otter  shoot the spardrags. Only one injured one remains. It is put on a leash.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 14
I land on the Trident Otter and ask Otter what he thinks he is going to do with the spardrag. He says he thinks we can train it. I have my doubts. I say he should take it to the Royal Hospital and get it treated and we will have to decide what it eats. We must also build a place to keep it. It will have to be rock because once he gets his firepower he will use it. I tell theOtter so and suggest he may have to stay in the rocks of a mountain or a cave in the mountain. We will have to teach him to answer on command.All I have ever trained is eaglets. I ask theOtter what he has trained.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Top Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 64
Just baby otters. I'm now thinking that it might be a good idea to kill it, but not painfully. What do you think?

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 18
Naw, since you went to the effort of catching it, let's go ahead and try to tame it. But I am serious about it being hard to find a place for it to live and one of us will have to be with it at all times.

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 35     I will help you guys with the training if you want, but I too have my doubts about how successful we will be in taming a spardrag. Whatever were you thinking, Otter? Well, how did the doctor say his health was? Is there a chance he will live?

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20
Posts: 17    Chichawk: Did you guys bring a spardrag just for me to see?
             Birdman: No, Otter caught him thinking that we can get the doctor to mend him and train him for our own purposes?
              Chichawk: Has the sun affected his brain? He must be crazy.
             Eagleeyes: No, he has a good idea, Chichawk, but I too wonder if it will work. We have nothing to worry about until he gets his firepower, but then we could really have problems, eh? But, of course, by then, we will have you around and should be OK. Right man?
             Chichawk: The doctor says he is about ready to release me. Just in time for me to miss all the action.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Top Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 73
Otter listens and goes to a ready state of battle.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 27
OK. I will take the first leg of training him. Early training is the most important and since I train eagles it seems to me that I am the closest to a drag. I will take him up high on the mountain and he will be too frightened to get lose. Besides there is only rocks there so he can't hurt anything.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20
Posts: 27
Good idea. The next best place would be the Rocky Crag. But I see your point. You make the time to do this early training and the rest of us will wait. Besides if you foul up, we can always blame you, right?

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 47
Now, let's not get into the blame game yet. Otter, you look like you are getting ready for a battle. What's going on? Do you know something we don't? I thought everything was peaceful since we had the alliance to fight the dragon.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Top Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 95
I will have to go fight "The Blue One". It's a killer whale I used to fight with.      

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 50
Oh, can we go? Do you need some help? Or do you do it alone? If that is true, can we go and watch? I am not going to stay around here and do nothing.

Striking Eagle
Mar01
Mountaintop
RP: 20
Member  
Posts: 28
I am outta here. Say bye to the spar drag and wish me luck. Eagleeyes picks up the spar drag in his beak and heads for the mountain.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20
Posts: 28
Hey, what's with the trading. Do we need some more food supplies or luxuries or something. I would like to go check out the whale business too, but it seems like to me we are just coasting along here.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Top Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 96
This isn't a GAME. It is VERY serious. But we don't kill each other. We just fight every year and we won't kill until total havoc.                  

LittleBirdy
Mar01
Nestworld
Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 55
Well, I am going with you and see a killer whale. I have never seen one before. I have heard of whaling when you kill a whale and use some of it for food and the oil for providing light and some of it for coats but that is all I know. Apparently this is not what you do with your big one, but it will be interesting just the same.

Hawkeye
Mar01
Rocky Crag                              
Member
RP: 20
Posts: 34
Well, I am headed for the sea. It has been a long time since I have been to sea by myself but I am going to get some stuff for the winter season. We may not be able to travel later and it will be good to have different kinds of food and stuff. So take care, friends, and see you later.

theOtter
Sept00
In my chair.      
Top Moderator
RP: --
Posts: 146
Title: Galactic Scourge
Good luck! I go out and jump into the water. Sword ready, I prepare to fight. A long way down you can see something big moving through the water. It comes up. The killer whale. I start ripping my sword into the KW and combat begins. The KW starts lashing at me with it's teeth. I continue fighting, and suddenly, high up, I see Striking Eagle coming down to land right on the water! I wonder what could have happened and see the spardrag with him. I continue slashing at the killer whale, because I have to kill it before Striking Eagle lands and then get him to land properly, not just go down and crash into water.                

(The end)

[Delthion]

It's still cringe worthy! Therefore according to page 56 section H paragraph 15 you must post it.

[Mhera]

Noooooooooooooooooooookay.

[Delthion]

To quote a wise person that met her untimely end when she refused to post her cringe worthy story: "That's debatable."

[Søren]

Oh no.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

You were young back then, padawan. *sobs*

[Russa Nodrey]

I wrote a weird story, it involves Robin Hood and a homeless kid........*Coughs*.........I wrote it when I was eight. I'll post it here (along with another slightly less cringe worthy story) when the computer is available.

[Mhera]

I'll post my story later, but here's a short writing assignment from sixth grade (all misspellings and cross-outs are kept):

Vienna Sausage should not be made, sold, or consumed. DeNot only isare the smell, taste and texture nausiating, they are probably on the Most Toxic, Lethal, Dangerous, Evil, and Hazordous Matiriels list. The first ingrediant is "mechanicly separated chicken. Though they are dirt cheap (about 38 c a can) and a favorite of the family dog, this stands is a stands as reason goes to show

Ran out of time during the assignment and so couldn't finish my tirade. I had a thing against Vienna sausage.

[Lady Amber]

^... ...
I never really wrote anything when I was little, so I guess I'm saved.

[Jukka the Sling]

Here's part of a story I wrote when I was six, with original spelling intact. Don't know how much I'll post. Back then, I was reallyyy influenced by Laura Ingalls Wilder and some Amish school readers we still own (published by Rod and Staff). Anyway...

Chapter One: Traviling

The covered wagon jolted as it hit a bump. Inside it were grandma and grandpa and the three children, Beth, John, and Samuel. Their parents were in there, too.

"Papa," said Samuel. "I would like to get out of the wagon, and run behind the wagon for a while."

"Yes, Samuel," said his papa.

"May all of us go?" asked Beth.

"Yes," ansewered Papa. "But one at a time, please." Then he added, "John may go first." "I will make the horses go at a slow pace," he added.

So that was the way it was. John went first, and Beth second.

Chapter Two: Camping

The children ran behind the wagon, each for a few minutes. Soon their legs were tired. Then their Papa stopped The horses, and they all climbed in, one at a time, because they could not, all of them, crowd on to the same wagon wheel!

Oh, yes, and I almost forgot to tell you that Beth and the two boys had had very little schooling. But where they were going to settle there was a school only two miles away! But ofcourse children had to walk to school in those days, as there were no cars, or school-buses.

Then the sun began to set. "Look at the sunset, children," said Mama. "Isn't it Prettey?"

"Oh, yes!" said Beth. "Okay," Beth said. "Let's..."

"I know what you are going to say," Interrupted John. "You are going to say..."

"Lets ask eachother what our favorite colour is," finished Beth. "Mama and Papa, Listen Please," said Beth.





I have more chapters in the notebook (which was an anthology of various stories, most of which narrated the saga of Beth and her family), but I might post them later.