by Ben
The Wallet
The next morning Ted slept until 10:30. He got up and fried some eggs and ate them. Then Ted went for a walk. Then he saw a wallet. He picked it up and looked inside. There were ten 100 dollar bills in it! There was a picture of the person who had lost it, and his name was there too.
“I’m going to return this,” Ted said. “Because I would be glad if I had lost 1000 dollars and someone gave it back.”
Ted’s Dad agreed, so they Ted took it to town and yelled, “I found a lost wallet! Come get it if it’s yours!”
Soon an old gruff-looking man came up.
“It’s mine! He said gruffly.
Ted knew the man was lying so he said, “How much money is in it?”
“33 dollars and 44 cents,” he said.
“Well that’s not the amount that’s in here, so that means it’s not yours. Where did you lose your wallet?”
“I lost it at the town restaurant,” said Mr. Grump. (That’s what Ted called him.)
“That’s not where I found this one, so I’m not givin’ it to you.”
After Mr. Grump left, another man came up. He was nice.
“My name is George. I lost a wallet. I lost it away from town. It had 1000 dollars in it!”
“I found this wallet this morning while I was taking a walk,” Ted said.
Ted gave George his wallet and told about the other man.
“What did the man look like?” George asked.
“He had red hair and he had a pink shirt and a black hat and blue eyes and dirty brown jeans and he had glasses,” Ted said.
“Those are some good clues, Ted,” said George “You see, I’m a cop, and me and the other cops have been trying to catch that crook for years. Where did the man go when he left just now?”
“He went to that yellow house over there.”
“Ok! If you will help me, we could catch that thief right now, Ted. The family who lives in that house is gone and the thief knows it so he’s just going to walk right in and steal some stuff. Watch him. He’s trying to get in the front door but it’s locked. Let’s follow and catch him. He’s going to the back door because it’s not locked.”
They followed him inside, and George told Ted his plan to catch him.
“Ted,” George whispered, “You hide behind the stairs and when he comes around you jump out and push him over.”
The plan worked perfect. When Ted pushed Mr. Grump over, George jumped out from behind the piano and hand cuffed him.
“You did a great job!” George said. “That was a pretty big hit!”
“I didn’t want him to keep standing because if did, he probably wouldn’t be in jail right now,” Ted said.
Ted got 100 dollars for helping catch the thief.
I had fun writing it.
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