Book of Short Stories PRINTED AND BOUND UNDER SUPERVISION OF K. E. KILLEEN, DIRECTOR OF HANDIWORK bookofshortstories.com 2 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com THE NEW CITY HALL The new City Hall was started in 1929 and will be  How I like to watch the men at work! I like to watch the          with the stones. The workers throw the broken bricks  School No. 2 John Galante * THE SONG OF THE LARK   Now she stops to listen. Hark!    Peasant pictures he did paint  School No. 64 Jean Parkes LITTLE OWL GOLF COURSE One day last summer my sister and I planned to make        YOUR LITTLE FRIEND THE FIFTH GRADE BOOK Josephine Muscia Dear Fifth Graders: How do you do! I am the little book that you have made. I have many little stories. They are very interest-         happy hours. School No. 2   BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com   Then one of the boys’ father said if my father would let                of tour seats was donated. It was a discarded cot bed. The other two were auto seats we found in the dumps.                      the brushes. Between seven of us we found two brushes. One of the brushes was two inches wide. The other was   is how she did it. She would pickup up brick by brick  did with our brushes. However she was whitewash from   He speaks over the radio to the children sunday after-     Our business continued until the cold weather start- we made a horseshoe with the bricks. We found a toddy - ber one. There were several of our playmates who asked                                   on the billboards on Walden Avenue west of the D.L.W The other was tacked on our tree. Of course we had only three sticks and two balls to start with. -                        came to look on they interfered with the players. We 4 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com would draw an eye with tears. When the were happy -  us how to do it. School No. 12 Cecelia Seifert THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTRICITY In the old Quaker city of Philadelphia the people were  Franklin who is now known as the famous discoverer     -    attached a metal key and a silk cord to hold on to. -                     touched the key. At last he had proven to himself that  - came known all over the United Sates and Europe. We  School No. 1 Clar Gaeta              -    School No. 64 Robert Schmerbach * CANYON OF BEAUTY  Down at the bottom away it roars.  And the walls on the sides are oh so steep !  One mile below it has made its bed.  The Colorado River has done the task.  Cecelia Seifert CENTURIES OF RECORD KEEPING Cecelia Seifert                                    5 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com     Concetta Limeri                                   save her. Ther lived not far from the palace a lad whose name   to the palace.               -   his nose and mouth. Roland was near by and drew his   - SULPHUR Lily Drewitt Sulphur is a very important mineral product of the -     insects on them. There are many rubber thanks made - face men bore deep wells into whcih they force hot wa- ter. This melts the fulphur. Then they use compressed  surface. When it cools it forms into hard yellow rocks. Workmen will then blast the sulphur rock. Then the    the United States. School No. 6 Lily Drewitt   -       6 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com  -     a tree.                  dollars. I think the crowds of people who came to see it  School No. 9 Ruth Mallon and Florence Ogorek                 a baby lamb. He holds a crooked stick in his left arm.         can’t keep up with the others. I think this picture is very    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  - - beth were married. School No. 4 Nicholas Florko THE LONE HAWK      -  -  down and shot many bullets into the German’s cockpit.  German down. The victory was won. The American Ace felt that a day’s work was done. School No. 8 Henry Puattander A PRIZE WINNER  -             reindeers. These were real ones that had been stuffed.  Santa’s eyes were blue.    BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com PICKNICKING Some of the best times we have in the summer are                            ride home.  Carol Schaal DANIEL BOONE Daniel Boone was the leader of the early pioneers. he     -   - -   in Kentucky. Boone built a fort to protect the territory from the attacks of the Indians. Once Boone was cap- yer and Huckleberry Finn. -      promised mystery. But the promise was a fraud ther                      you would like to know the outcome of this incident  School No. 15 Edgar Small WHY THE OWL FLIES AT NIGHT        - time since. School No. 16 Jack Severson 8 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com   up. He was only a week and a half old. In about three days he could walk. Now we let him out. In a day or so he seemed to like it better out than in. One afternoon I took him out for a run and he ran away. I went to bed   School No. 22 Raymond Saar COTTON Cotton is raised in the southern part of the United        -  for the owners of the cotton plantation. Before the cot-  pick the seeds out of the cotton by hand. In 1916 the cot-          -  into soap and salad oil. The United States raises more cotton than any other country in the world. I would like to see a cotton plantation. School No. 25 Milton Gaiser A FISHING TRIP One nice day last summer my father and I decided to   had lost her son. He pretended to like the Indians’ way  -   School No. 19 Robert Koen THE STORY OF FIRE  houses like ours to live in. They lived in caves where it                 They discovered that it made the cave both warm and    School No. 21 Ida Wolchok TIPPY    9 BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com  I wish I lived there. School No. 24 Virginia Cummings RIDING ON A CLOUD                  -    School No. 26 Beatrice Mace A SCARE   up to see what it was. He opened the door and looked - etbook lay on the table. -  was there. So he closed and locked the door. He went in                around into different spots. Finally I dropped my line          everybody was happy.  Douglas Schnorr SHEEP IN SPRING -                      trees which lead to a farm house that is nestled down   BY FIFTH GRADE PUPILS A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES bookofshortstories.com                      have been discovered in many parts of the world. Today  museum in New York City. Lately they discovered the skull and bones of the               yet it is very different.  men his work is very valuable for he thinks that he has found the place where the oldest race in the world once lived. School No. 29 Robert Rogan           -  up his father sent him to a university to study.  to lock the front door. To his horror he found the door  - ies around the town. About a month later they found the men who did it. They were arrested and sent to prison.  Louis Schroeder OUR SAND TABLE   -  - -    house. Our sand table has helped to make the study of  School No. 28 Georgia West AN EXPLORER OF THE GOBI DESERT Dr. Roy Andrews and his party of forty men have           - mals that are supposed to have lived millions of years  deeply into the sand for relics. [...]... 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