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The Curious Kids’ Castle Adventure

BRENDA JOUDREY

It was a dark and foggy night. Four kids decided they wanted to know what was over in the far away castle. They told their parents they were staying with their friends for the weekend. They took some food in a backpack. The kids were travelling along the railway tracks. Johnny drove the trolley and Peter controlled the sails on the trolley. Johnny and Peter sat in the back and Lizzy and Della sat on the front of the trolley. The wind was blowing hard that night. The kids all hung onto the trolley as they were crossing a long, wide harbour. They were going along when it started to rain. Then suddenly it started to thunder and lightning. The kids were scared, but they had no way to turn back on the railway tracks. They held on tightly so they would not fall off into the water. They thought the storm was over. They were going along the tracks when the waves started to come up over the rocks and onto the tracks. The rocks on the side of the tracks didn’t help break the waves from the harbour. The kids looked up at the sky and the night was as dark as coal. The kids wondered what they would see over there in the castle so far away from home. They thought maybe the castle was haunted.

The kids were so curious to get there to explore the castle. Then the wind blew hard and ripped off the sails of the trolley.

Lizzy and Della started to cry. “What will we do now?”

Johnny and Peter thought about it and said, “We will have to go down on our hands and knees and crawl the rest of the way.”