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My name is
Axl Taylor and I am going to tell you a
story about three kids who live in the
hills of Michigan. This story starts out
when the three kids Stacey, Max, and
Zachary were out playing by the river when
they heard their parents yelling for them
to do more chores, right after they had
just finished the other ones. If you can't
tell, these children don't have a very fun
life. They have to do chore after chore,
and most of the time they do pretty
pointless ones, or ones they have already
done (stack the fire wood when it is
already stacked). They have been living
this way for three (Stacey), five (Max),
and eight (Zachary) years, They started
working when they were five years old.
Their
whole life was like this until one day,
while they were paying out in the woods by
their house, knowing that they only had
about thirty minutes until they would be
called to do more work, they heard
something bark. They all froze for about
five seconds and then they heard it again
and again. They started to get curious, so
they slowly moved closer to where they
heard the sound coming from. They came
around a tree and saw a man wearing a top
hat, nice clothes, an eye piece, with a
stop watch hanging from his pocket. He was
beating a dog that was tied up to a tree.
Again, and again he hit the dog with a
stick, and again and again the dog barked.
But then Stacey, who was just reaching her
older brothers, steeped on a stick. The
man looked up, but they hid behind the
tree. He dropped the stick and ran away,
leaving the dog tied up. While he was
running way the three kids heard him say,
"I paid a lot of money for that dog, but I
can't get caught beating it. An animal
will probably get it because it's only a
puppy and it's hurt." They also heard
their parents calling them. Zachary, the
oldest, ran out and grabbed the dog. It
was tannish brown and had blood stains all
over it. They then ran back to their house
and tied it up behind the stack of wood,
hoping their parents wouldn't find it, and
went to go see what their chores were now.
For one of
the first times in their lives they
weren't being called to do more chores,
they were being called in for dinner. They
all saved some of their dinner and stuck
it in their pockets. They went to bed.
After their parents had fallen asleep they
got up and went outside to see the dog,
They fed it the food from their pocket and
then washed it off with water from their
well. It took a month for the dog to
recover.
By the
time their parents found out about the dog
it had been one month and the dog was a
lot bigger now. They found out when one
day the dog would not stop barking. Their
parents did not take very kindly to this
and they got a lot of punishment, They had
more chores, and their parents considered
getting rid of the dog. The three kids did
not like that idea at all, so eventually
they convinced their parents to let them
keep it.
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The three
kids loved having the dog around who was
now named Bandit. They played by the river
for hours. They would let him in the house
on cold stormy nights. They lived with the
dog for three years and they got very
attached to him. Their life was starting
to turn around and be happy until one day
when they were in town they saw the man
they had seen three years before in the
woods. "Where did you find that dog?" the
man asked. "Did you find it in the woods?"
The kids
did not remember who he was and said yes.
"When did
you find it, about three years ago?" the
man asked.
"Yes there
was a man beating it, and then he suddenly
ran away and left this dog tied up to the
tree. We then went out and untied it from
the tree and cared for it," Zachary said,
now remembering who the man
was.
"I want my
dog back!" The man yelled, as he tried to
take the dog away.
The kids
ran, and as they were running away they
heard the man say "this is not over!".
They did not turn back and they ran all
the way home and told their parents the
whole story. Their parents said that they
would most likely have to give the dog
back.
The next
day they woke up to the sound of knocking
on their door. They went to open the door
and there was the town sheriff standing
there with the man from the
woods.
"I'm
sorry, kids, but you have to give the dog
back to this man. By rights it's his dog,"
the sheriff said.
"But sir.
this man left it in the woods hurt, and
bleeding."
"Is this
true?" asked the sheriff.
"Of course
not, they are just sad," the man
said.
"I'm
sorry, kids, I don't want this to turn
into a huge deal," the sheriff said, as he
took the dog and handed it to the man.
He shut
the door and then they left. They never
saw the man or the dog ever again. They
were very sad and did not want to talk to
anyone for a week, Eventually they got
another dog, but it was never the same as
having Bandit.
Based on a
true story.
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