LOOKING FOR TREASURE
Once my friend Lisa and I saw some rocks in a hole in the park near us. We thought they were covering the entrance to a cave, and decided we would start digging for treasure. We got some shovels from her house and used them and our hands to take out rocks and dirt from the hole. We worked on our hole for about 3 days. But then Lisa's father came to get us home and saw what we were doing. He got very worried because when you dig a big hole, it might fall in on you and hurt you. He filled in the hole and told use we couldn't dig any more. It was very disappointing, since we never found out if there was treasure.
Another treasure dig was at the end of our driveway.The area at the end of the driveway was dirt and gravel, and I decided to dig for a while. Not too far from the surface I found some shiny white material. I thought it was precious stones. My mom said it was an old toilet that someone had broken up and buried to get rid of it. That was another disappointment.
Once Lisa found a place where someone had buried a beaded belt. We spent a lot of time collecting the little beads from the dirt. We enjoyed sorting them by color and digging out a few more each time we went digging.
Another kind of treasure hunting was to look in the trash in the neighbor's backyards, hoping to find something interesting. It turns out that that is a VERY SILLY thing to do. One time my brother found a bottle of cod-liver oil. That is a smelly fish oil that people used to give to babies because of the vitamins in it. My brother didn't know what it was. He opened it and got it all over himself. He smelled so awful that we didn't want to go near him! Another time, Betty who lived down the street found what she thought was a bottle of soda. It was actually bubble bath. She drank some before she realized that it was really yucky. She could have gotten really very sick. We learned that you should NEVER go hunting in trash or garbage, and you should NEVER drink or eat something that you find (unless your Mommy or Daddy grows it in the garden and gives you permission).
Looking back, I think the best treasures I found were the four-leaf clovers I wrote about the other day.
Another treasure dig was at the end of our driveway.The area at the end of the driveway was dirt and gravel, and I decided to dig for a while. Not too far from the surface I found some shiny white material. I thought it was precious stones. My mom said it was an old toilet that someone had broken up and buried to get rid of it. That was another disappointment.
Once Lisa found a place where someone had buried a beaded belt. We spent a lot of time collecting the little beads from the dirt. We enjoyed sorting them by color and digging out a few more each time we went digging.
Another kind of treasure hunting was to look in the trash in the neighbor's backyards, hoping to find something interesting. It turns out that that is a VERY SILLY thing to do. One time my brother found a bottle of cod-liver oil. That is a smelly fish oil that people used to give to babies because of the vitamins in it. My brother didn't know what it was. He opened it and got it all over himself. He smelled so awful that we didn't want to go near him! Another time, Betty who lived down the street found what she thought was a bottle of soda. It was actually bubble bath. She drank some before she realized that it was really yucky. She could have gotten really very sick. We learned that you should NEVER go hunting in trash or garbage, and you should NEVER drink or eat something that you find (unless your Mommy or Daddy grows it in the garden and gives you permission).
Looking back, I think the best treasures I found were the four-leaf clovers I wrote about the other day.
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