A Boy and His Dog
Carolyn Pyzynski's Father
Once upon a time there was a little boy. He had no brothers or sisters , but he did have a really good pal in his dog, a male black Scottie dog.
One day he decided he could maybe make some money by selling balloons. So he went to the store and bought all kinds of balloons. Red ones, yellow ones, green ones, purple ones and blue ones. Even some white ones. It was a lot of work blowing up all of those ballons. It took him almost a day to do it. The next morning he tied them all together and asked his mother if he could walk around the block and try and sell them. She said, okay.
So he started off and decided to take his little Scottie dog with him. He sold about three of them . Then a grownup came along and asked if he could buy five of them. He had about twenty of them left. In order to pick out the five, he decided to tie them to the little dog's collar and then he'd have both hands free to pick them out.
He turned to the man to ask what colors he wanted and when he looked back the balloons had flown up into the air holding the little dog. He was really scared he jumped for them, but could not reach the dog. The man tried, but by then they were even higher. His Scottie was barking and barking. The little boy ran back to his home as fast as he could. When he got back they were almost as high as a house. He had gone home to get his BB gun.
He aimed at the balloons one at a time. Sometimes he missed, but little by little, the ballons started to come down. He shot them out one by one until they were finally where he could catch the dog. The man purchased the remaining balloons and gave him a dollar extra. Boy, that was a scary thing. He decided, he would not do that again. He would just sell lemonade from in front of his house. And they all lived happily ever after.
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