Thursday, March 01, 2007

When will I get to land? - unedited letter by letter retype of a story written by Rob when he was very young

In a ship called the drunk mans barrel a man was thrown overbord because he had not been working hard. The mans name John Barrel. As he went along in the sea he sow a ship called the pink man. After he had shouted help help and the ship had gone without him he wondered when will I get to land? But I must not tell you what else he had wondered when a big storm came and poor John got thrown out of the barrel and had to swim back to it. When the storm had gone he was so starving because it was lunch time. Suddenly he sow land then no, yes, no, yes, land he sow land. But it was only a small island with two palm trees with one coconut on each tree. The barrel went on the beach so John went out of the barrel and pulled it on to the land. Suddenly he heard a voice. "Go away pirate or I will shoot you dead" said something from the tree. "What" said John wondering who had said that. "I'll give you ten seconds to go or you'll be dead". Then out of the trees came a parrot "I thought you were a pirate". "It is alright" said John "you can come down and what is your name". The parrot came down and landed on a branch just above John's head "my name is Polly Parrot" said Polly. "Oh my name is John Barrel" said John. After John and Polly had something to eat they both went out to sea soon Polly asked questions and by and by John asked questions. The next day the sun was so bright that Polly's feathers was shinning in the sun so Polly said "look at my feathers arnt they lovely". "Yes" said John "they are lovely". John had a picture of the drunk mans barrel. "So that's why you are in a barrel" said Polly "yes" said John "they are lots of people are called barrel but the captain is not called barrel he's called Bang". "Why" said Polly "Why what" said John "Why is he called Bang and the rest are called barrel" said Polly. John said why. Suddenly a ship went past them so John and Polly shouted "help help" and the ship called the hat picked them up and put them on the deck. The sails were shaped as hats and the bridge's roof was shaped as a hat, it was so lovely. Next week they sailed home then two hours later they so land. At the dock they all went home together and talk about were adventure. That night when John and Polly were they dreamed about their adventure.

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