Childhood Treasure #5

I know that these "childhood treasures" of mine are not interesting to many of you, but since this *is* a journal of sorts, I'm throwing this out there.

I was so excited to find this story that I don't recall ever seeing before. I wrote it before my mom died, so I must have been almost 8. I vividly remember sitting in our office plucking at the keys feeling so grown up, although until now I couldn't tell you what I wrote. So, the exciting part about finding this story is that it completes the memory. It almost makes me want to find an old type writer to let my kids type with.......there is something about trying to get the words just right so that the whole paper isn't covered in white-out that my children will never understand using a word processor.

The original paper is yellowed, it's covered with splotches of white-out, the centering is not perfect, but here is the story as it appears originally:

( HOW THE SUN AND THE MOON GOT IN THE SKY )

Once upon a time there was a man and a woman/

The man war a mask over his fase like a moon

the woman war a mask over her fase and it

looked like a sun.

The man and the woman lived in a desert.

Not far from the desert.

was the city in city was a lake

in the lake was a fish man.

And he asked the man if he would

make a lake for hisself and the man

said that he would and he did and

the fish man was so he decided to invited

all of the fish in the old lake the fish man

asked the man if he could invit his good

friend's and the man said yes so he

did and the fish man

invited so meny.

do you wote to no how meny?

he invited 10 loads and the sun and the moon werr so srpized that thay jummped up

and they went up into the air and that is how the

sun and the moon got in the sky

THE END!

BY ANGIE