The Fox Decided to Get a Job, and Other Tales

STUFF I WROTE WAY BACK WHEN in first- or second-grade reading class, reproduced with punctuation and spelling left as is.

(Second grade) 

Nov. 18, 198x

TheFox decided toGetA job Ina Restaurant

 

He caught the partige, the 11 chickens, fetched some water, 13 wild hog, bread crumbs from the storeand, finally, a BIG pie that he whopped in someone’s face. nobody liked his restaurant.“The water, bread crumbs, the the ham, the pie the partige tasted terrible!!” the coustomers said. so they all made the same kind, exactly the same kind of pie the fox did! SMACK!! The fox didn’t know what his “terrible” pie tasted like until then. He only knew the owl,     hisenemy, had a sink. He couldn’t go there. So He hurried off into the woods to the stream and had to get completly soaked to get the “partridge pie” off of his fur. And that is what happend to the fox. THE END

Also Nov. 18, 198x

               Reading “The Fox Owns a Submarine”

Pay, Pay, Pay. Where could the fox get suits for his crew? They don’t have them at toy stores, so he’d have to sneak into, at night, Bill’s Garmets. Of course, he’d have to watch out for the night watch (10) men. He’d get in the side doors.Anyway, because of a submarine he’s going to own, if he stole the suits, International would pay. Even for the water fountain he broke last week, because it’s all water. The fox sneaks in side door, and it’s a good thing he wouln’t get arrested from the back of the store. He stole 4 suits, 10 extras. 5 for him, 5 for the crew. At the port it was very foggy. What was he doing there? If not there for a boat. “go over there!” I said to the fox. He didn’t know where I was, so he didn’t know which way to go. And that is what happend to the fox. THE END

MAY 5, 198x 

MY FAVORITE RELATIVE
My favorite relative is: My Grandfather He hardly writes any letters to me, but I did once in February, but my grandmother nor my grandfather answerd it. One time where he lived He, me, my brother and sister [and Mom] went to a pasture in his blue truck. The pasture was with cows and a mean bull. “Watch out, dad, that bull might charge at you,” said Mom. But after he fed the cows, we went to his house. The [inverted]  End

Jan. 12, 198x

CHRISTMAS VACATION

I read this newspaper from Arkansas, and it had what little kids from certain schools wanted for Chrismas. One thing was funny. Every person in Mrs. Looney’s 1^st grade spelled everything wrong, but the kids from Mrs. Bright’s 1^st grade spelled right.