Friday, December 5, 2014

A Retelling of "Hans and the Dike" by Rus (age 9)



A Lesson to Never Forget
by
Aidan Piercey
                Holland is an amazing land with beautiful blooming bursting tulips. The land has a magnificent landscape with little towns with people who are very polite. They are always greeting each other and are very busy too. A particularly interesting about it is that it is under water, and nothing even gets wet!  Well, it is not literally under water. It is just under water level. Then there was crafty Hans, a boy who was not very careful with anything like jumping over the side of the dikes into the water.
     "That boy is going to hurt himself sometime", whispered neighbors. And he did. Hans made a ladder that hung all the way to the water. Then he jumped into the water and started swimming, knowing that if he was pushed back by the current to the dike, he would just grab the ladder and climb up. Then he dove off the dike. When he fell into the water, he started swimming. The current pushed him back ,and when he was tired of fighting the current, he was swept back. Struggling, he tried to grab his ladder but it was too far off.  Then he was swept into the wall! He bruised himself and just made it to the ladder. Slowly he dragged himself up, he reached the top of the dike. Then one of the pegs he used to hold his ladder was swept off!
      "That doesn't matter it is only a small hole and it is not even through the dike", he thought. The hole was filled but it was not all the way through the dike. Suddenly  the water cut through the dike and then a hole was made. It became bigger and bigger, and then the fields started to flood! Before Hans had time to the town was starting to flood! The workmen rushed to the place where the dike was leaking and struggled to get the hole fixed. Later the hole was fixed, but all of Holland could be under water. Hans was punished and learned even the smallest act of carelessness could lead to a BIG disaster!

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