The Brave Tin Solider By grace

A long time ago there was a little boy named William Haywood. Today was his 10th birthday, and William was really excited. William ripped open his first present, it was a beautiful palace. In the middle of the wonderful garden was a pretty ballerina dressed in pink. In Williams second present was a box with 25 tin soldiers. All the tin soldiers had a rifle over their left arm.



Unfortunately one of the poor tin soldiers only had one leg. When William was out of the room all of his fantastic toys would come alive and play together. The one legged soldier fell in love with the ballerina as soon as he saw her, because it looked like she also only had one leg. But sadly she did have two legs, one of her legs were tucked up under her skirt.



Four days later William decided to make a boat out of newspaper. He chose the one legged soldier to be his sailor. In fact the poor tin soldier would be sailing down the overflowing gutter!William put the soldier into the boat and pushed it towards the water pipe. The tin soldier and the boat disappeared down the water pipe. In the water pipe it was very dark the tin soldier heard a voice 'who goes there'. It was a ugly water rat. The tin soldier continued on his way with the water rat chasing him. After a few minutes the tin soldier arrived at the ocean. The tin soldiers paper boat sunk and he was swallowed by a fish.


The fish that swallowed the tin soldier was caught and sold to a cook. But this wasn't any old cook this was Williams cook so soon the tin soldier was back in Williams bedroom. The tin soldiers adventures were not over just yet. William threw the tin soldier into the fire. The tin soldier felt himself melting then a lovely leap from the ballerina she jumped into the fire with the tin soldier. The next morning Williams maid was scraping out the fire when she found a small tin heart. It was the last of the tin soldier and the ballerina.

Grace McKenzie


!The End!