John Adams Elementary School, Madera California
One day while Jerry, the pumpkin farmer was in his
patch his
wife Judy was making dinner. Jerry was watering his
patch when a
teacher came up to him and asked if she could bring
her class by here
tomorrow to buy pumpkins. Jerry said, "Sure."
The next day the teacher was at Jerry's porch handing
him $40
for the pumpkins. Jerry got dressed and told the
kids they could pick
any pumpkin except the one with the flag on it. The
kids asked "why"
and Jerry told them about the story of the pumpkin
and how you can't
cut eyes on it or it will eat all of you money. The
kids agreed to this
story because they were only 5 or 6.
In about 1 hour Jerry's patch was completely empty
except for
that one pumpkin. When Jerry went inside Judy asked
where he'd
been. Jerry told her and said he would treat her
to dinner. When
they got back the pumpkin with the flag was gone
and where it had
been there was $2 and a note which read :
"Dear Jerry,
Sorry for intruding but a student came late and you
weren't
home so I bought the pumpkin for him because your
story was fake.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Jones"
After that day Jerry went to the police dept. And
asked if
anyone had heard of any mysterious robberies involving
gold. A
sergeant at the desk said that there had been three
of those in the
last hour. Jerry thanked the man and went home. Jerry
now knew
that the kid had cut out eyes. When Jerry got home
he took out a
book called, "How to kill a pumpkin." Jerry
flipped to chapter three
and began to read. After 15 minutes Jerry knew how
to kill a
pumpkin.
Jerry went to the phone and called his old buddy
from the Navy
and asked if he could get 16 sticks of T.N.T., 1
Nuke, 2 gallons of
nitro-glycerin and 1 packet of matches. Jerry's friend
was over in 1
minute. Jerry constructed a vest in which the pumpkin
would swallow.
Jerry turned on the TV in which to find a giant pumpkin
attacking the
US mint. Jerry remembered a part in his book that
said every time the
pumpkin eats a pound of gold it doubles in height
and weight.
Jerry called the president and told him everything.
Jerry
suggested that they take it out in the middle of
the ocean. "When we
get him out there, let him eat my vest and rush back
to land then…
BOOM! No one will
get hurt," Jerry said. The president agreed and
the mission began.
The next morning Jerry and the Navy lead the pumpkin
out in
the middle of the ocean with 1,000,000 pounds of
gold, but what
happened next was unpredictable. The pumpkin started
shooting out
pumpkin seeds. The pumpkin brought down 1 Harrier,
1 battleship,
3 Apaches and 3,000 men.
They final got the pumpkin to swallow the vest along
with the
president and every piece of gold. After that Jerry
went home to a
hot cup of hot-chocolate and a good game of Monday
Night Football.
The Buccaneers were playing the Packers. The Packers
won 16-17.
For one year after that, fisherman caught nothing
but pumpkin
seeds in the local waters. Jerry saved a few seeds
and started a
whole new patch. From that day forthm Jerry never
let a teacher talk
him into selling pumpkins again.