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The
Lost
Treasure
A round-robin story written by Londonderry HomeSchool Association homeschoolers
March, 2001
The Lost Treasure
Once upon a time a little prince lived in a castle with his sister the princess. The princess gave a treasure to the prince as a present for his birthday. "Do not lose this," she warned. "Otherwise bad luck will come unto you."
But do you know what that prince said? He said "Ha! You must be wrong!" And with that he left the princess, thinking how foolish she was.
The prince went in his garden to think about his present. Then Leaf, the princess's dog, came to see what Prince Nicholas was doing. Then Prince Nicholas buried his treasure. He went inside and told the princess "I buried my treasure."
"You can't do that, I bought it with all my money" she said.
"Then I will dig it up. Will you help me?" asked the prince.
"Yes, since I bought it" said the princess.
Prince Nicholas said, "I buried it in a circle of trees in the woods."
The princess asked, "Did you put an X on the place where you buried it?"
He replied, "I think I did."
So Prince Nicholas and Princess Angel went walking into the woods and found three circles of trees. Prince Nicholas stopped in front of a pine tree to think about which one was the right circle. There was a circle of trees to their left, right and right in front of them. They found an X in the right circle! They were excited and couldn't wait to find the treasure. They dug for his treasure at the X but it wasn't there! They were shocked!
A guard had already found the X, when he was walking in the woods. Then he got the treasure and took it back to the palace. He showed it to King David and Queen Miriam, the prince and princess' parents.
The guard gives the treasure to the king and queen as a gift. Meanwhile the prince and princess were heading back to the castle. They were feeling gloomy and tired from looking for the treasure. When they got to the castle, they told their parents about the missing treasure.
The King and Queen ask the Prince and Princess if the treasure they are looking for is big. The prince and princess say "yes!". Then they said "it was in red tissue paper and it was green on the inside."
The king and queen asked "Is this your treasure?" and they held out the treasure the guard had given them.
"Yes!" said the prince and princess.
The prince and princess were very happy to have their treasure back, but as the prince put it, "We had better be more careful next time because we might not get it back. (woof! Leaf said in agreement.)
The Prince and Princess unwrapped the red tissue paper from around the treasure. Queen Miriam asked, "Why did you buy this old thing?"
The Princess replied, "The shopkeeper told me that this was magical."
The treasure was an old green lamp that was very dirty. The Prince asked the Princess to help him clean the lamp. They got an old cloth and started to polish the lamp. It was very hard to clean, so they rubbed harder and harder. All of a sudden, they jumped back because a genie had popped out of the lamp.
"Hi, I'm Jeanie Geanie. You know the drill. You have three wishes starting ...," he looked at his watch that seemed to not be there, "starting now."
All the royal family did was look at him.
"What? I have insurance!" Jeanie said in amazement. Usually everyone spat out their wishes.
The Prince went first. "Well, I could always use a golden crown just in case I'm king." Then everything started to shake, shaking harder and harder and STOP. There was Prince Nicholas' crown, shining like a star with jewels.
"Next," spoke Jeanie.
The Princess stood in front of her brother. "I'm going to spend my wish wisely by asking for a massage chair." Sure enough, everything started to shake, shaking harder and harder and STOP. "My own massage chair!" cried Princess Angel, hugging it with happiness.
"Well c'mon, you can't forget," blurted out Jeanie, "about the last wish."
"Your father and I have been thinking about ending this story," exclaimed the Queen. "Isn't that exciting?" Before anyone had a chance to answer, everything started to shake, shaking harder and harder and STOP!