Day: August 29, 2020

I wrote this when I was in 5th grade, in 1976. I have transcribed all the spelling and punctuation errors as best I could, in the same spirit with which I would sometimes transcribe my students’ work when teaching in Korea.

Ms. Agailia Wumpledin’s very Odd Plant

The insect-eating plant sat in the window
of Ms. Agailia Wumpledins house. She was a little
old lady who’s only companin was her
plant. She called her plant Clyde, and had
even made clothes for her plant. Clyde
also wore a velvet ribon, and had done so
all his life. he had gotten the ribon when
Ms. Wumpledin had bought him.

Clyde liked to collect the lining out
out of old womens shoes. whenever Ms.
Wumpledin had geusts over, he would
reach over with one of his banches and grab off the closest
woman’s shoes then he would use his toungh
to rip the lineing out of the shoes.
the reason he did this is because he
liked the taste of the glue that held
the lining to the shoes. Ms. Wumpledin
thought that this was so entertaining,
that sometimes she would invite people
over for that very reason.

Clyde liked gold too although he
rarely saw it. Once when some people were visiting, after having taken
most of the womens shoes, he saw a man
talking, who had a gold filling in his
mouth. he imedietly reached over
and grabed the man by his neck,
pulled the tooth out of his mouth
shook the filling out, and then gave
the man back his tooth. luckuly, this
only happened once.

But the oddest thing about Clyde,
was wenever he was alone, he would
pull out a deck of cards, and play
soliter.

So, we must certainly conclud that
Ms. Agailia Wumpledin has a very
odd plant.