Untitled, ca. 1980

 I just found a story I wrote when I was nine years old. It started out with promise, but I can only think that I was in a silly mood and ran out of time near the end. Plus, I was nine, so...

I have edited only by putting in paragraphs. The original was written in one big block.

Once upon a time, there was a supply that was becoming extinct. The county judge gave an order to supply the supply. But the trouble was, they (the people) didn't know what the supply was, so they couldn't supply it. 

One day a brave girl went before the judge. "Have they supplied the supply yet?" asked the judge. 

"Your honor," the girl was really trembling. "We have tried you honor, but please we don't know what the supply is!" was the reply. 

Here the judge interrupted long enough to say, "Sir, get me grape jelly." Then the judge laughed and said to the girl, "Silly, the supply is eggs!"

Much relieved that the supply wasn't something like food, she ran out to tell the people. On the way she met a clumsy lad and she said, "Lad, it's your duty to restore that supply." And to which the boy answered, "How am I to know what the supply is?" To which the girl answered, "Nincompoop! It's eggs. Now run along and tell the rest of them!"

The clumsy lad ran off, fell down the hill, picked himself up and he was off again. 

The girl had an idea. She ran to a place and wrote out a lot of signs that said "Silly, the supply is eggs!" Then drawing a picture of the judge, she taped the sayings on trees. 

An hour later, a crazy lady came by and saw the sign. She gave it one look and sat down ready to lay eggs. 

"Oh dear!" thought the girl. "Oh well, she is a bit crazy!"

The town got its eggs, but then a problem came up. A thief was fined for stealing a cooky. Being noisy he had been found out. But the dish of cookies were lonely because that cooky had been eaten. Then there was envy. And people were greedy, mostly the people in the navy. The girl was all pity. But she couldn't do a thing. 

But everything turned out right in the end.

The End.

What?? Did the town get the eggs because the crazy lady laid them? Did the dish of lonely cookies tattle on the cookie thief, and is that how he got caught and fined? Are people in the navy more inherently greedy than others? And why? And how did everything turn out right in the end? 

Did I really use the word "nincompoop" when I was nine?

I give myself points for spelling, punctuation and grammar, and being an obvious fan of English literature even at that age. The plot, however, is weak and needs work.