symon and shadow's peculiar race

hi! well, today in school we had to rewrite the story 'the hare and the tortoise' everyone probably knows that story. it's the one where the hare races the tortoise, and the tortoise surprisingly wins because the hare falls asleep. well, here's my version:

symon and shadow's peculiar race

one terribly rainy day, symon and his cousin shadow had nothing to do. symon was so bored he decided to tease shadow. shadow, being slow and unbelievably obese, was an easy target. eventually shadow got so vexed with the teasing he suggested a race. symon giggled and boasted that he would obviously be the champion. nevertheless, symon agreed, if only to show everyone that he was so fast and strong. finally, it was settled that jitterbug would be the judge and select the course. she decided that the race should be run from mamaw's patio to bernie's house and back. now remember, it was a cold and rainy day, and because of that the cats were understandably uneasy. symon and shadow arrived at the starting line, and jitterbug dropped shadow's toy mouse to signal the start of the race. symon shot off, covering shadow in mud and leaving him far behind. symon looked back, saw how far ahead he was, and thought, "it's only 1:o7 pm, i'll just stop in and see great grandma and grandpa. i can dry off and warm up by the fire." so that's precisely what he did.

while symon was visiting with his great grandparents, shadow passed their house and worked his way up the road. soon he reached bernie's house and started the journey back. by this time great grandma and grandpa had lulled symon into a false sense of security. they had stopped all the clocks and fed symon cookies and warm milk. after about an hour, symon realized that the clock still read 1:07 pm! symon leaped from great grandma's lap and sped through the door, over to bernie's and back home. unfortunately for symon, shadow had already won the race. in the end symon discovered that shadow had schemed up the whole plot with great grandma and grandpa, just to humiliate his older cousin symon!

the end

well i gotta go! oh yeah, symon just reminded me to tell everyone that he actually told me this story, i'm just the one that translated and typed it =)