
03-15-2008, 04:48 PM
this is a story I made when I was 8 years old. i see know that it is pretty stupid and would never pass at school nowadays, but it's cute and I am amazed at how much imagination I had back then.
Bumbly the Dwarf
There once was a little man named Bumbly the Dwarf. He was two inches tall and he rode on a magnificent horse named Gretta. Gretta was five feet tall, so Bumbly had to climb a tiny rope ladder to get on the horse. He had a kind heart, but because he was so small, people often made fun of him. One day after being extremely humiliated, he thought, “Oh how I wish I could be tall!” Then he got an idea. He tied his hands to Gretta and tied his feet to a tree. Then he shouted to Gretta to run and off she ran. As she ran, Bumbly got skinnier and skinnier and longer and longer until he could touch the sky. But when he jumped around with joy, he shrank back to his normal height.
A little while later as he was being teased by other people, he said to himself, “I will go out west where I can be away from all the insults of taller people.”
So he did. He traveled west with a wagon train and had much fun, but soon they came to a place at the Rockies where they could not go through. Everyone thought they had to turn back, but Bumbly knew better, he tied his hands to Gretta and a rock. Gretta pulled and pulled until he was tall enough to touch the other side of the Rockies. All the people on the wagon train cheered as they crossed over the mountains on Bumbly’s back.
Pretty soon, everyone heard about Bumbly and whenever they needed help crossing someplace, Bumbly was there.
But one man didn’t like Bumbly. This man was a shopkeeper with many shops along the Atlantic coast. He didn’t like that so many people were being transported west, so he decided to stop it. One night, when Gretta was sleeping, he shot her in the back. She was badly injured but later recovered. Bumbly knew it would be hopeless to try and stretch himself again so they rode off into the sunset and were never seen again.
But the people still remembered him and made a long slim curved monument in his honor.
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