CW Aesop--The Top and Ball Compositions.

These are the kids' compositions this week, based on the model: The Top and Ball by H.C. Andersen.

The older:

THE TOP AND THE BALL

One day a Top fell in love with a Ball. He wanted to marry her because she was beautiful. The Ball did not wish to marry the Top.

“I am engaged to a swallow” boasted the Ball with her nose in the air.


One day the Boy took the Ball out to play. He bounced the ball too high. He lost the Ball and could not find it. Many years later the Top one day spun into the dustbin. He found the Ball in there and she was thoroughly drenched and filthy.

The Top was found, but he never spoke of his old love
again.

By the Younger. (I took her original narration as she dictated it to me, hence the longer composition!)

The Top and the Ball

There was once a Top who lived in a toy box. A ball lived there too. She wore a morocco dress. The Top said. “We should make a very good pair. Shall we be engaged to each other?”

“I am half engaged to a swallow,” the Ball bragged.

Then the boy came to play with his Ball. It looked pretty when it bounced in the air. On the ninth bounce it did not come back down. The boy looked high and low for the Ball but did not find it. The ball was missing for five years.

The Top was gilded and was something to look at. A couple of years later, the Top fell into the dustbin. He found a ball there.

“Finally someone I can talk to,” the Ball said relieved. “I am made of morocco and I have a Spanish cork in my body.”

The more she talked to him the more it became clear that this was the same Ball he had once loved.

Soon the maid came to empty the dustbin and found the Top. Nobody saw or spoke of the Ball. Soon after, she died.

The End

And so, it is.