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Can you match the shoe with its story?

Splash!

Madison Ball

Splash! Right in the muddiest, most gooey puddle that I’ve ever stepped in!  Eeeewwwwww!

            Human up there, are you serious?  Come on. Now I’m covered in mud!  I look sooo pretty in brown.  NOT!  I’m in the middle of the swampiest place in the entire woods.  I can’t believe she wore me on this little adventure of hers.  She is so washing me at home.  This better not happen again.

 Splash!  Grrrrrr!  As the human stomps to get to their special place in the woods I step in some strange mud, some very strange mud.  It feels like it is sucking me into the ground.

            Wait, it is sucking me into the ground.  Oh no!  Get me out of this!  Oh no, I can’t see anything.  How am I going to get out of this?  Think, think, think.  It smells so gross down here.  Hold on.  Is that what I think it is?  Someone is grabbing me by the tabs.  A big yank and I am out!  Wow, that was close.

            Finally, we are going home.  Oh, I can’t wait to get cleaned up, lie around, and dream of rainy days, jumping from one puddle to another.

Spurs and White stitching

P. Elliott Ball

I am going to tell you about my most humiliating day that transformed into the most exciting day of my life. 

        Well, one summer afternoon my master and I were going to the rodeo, in fact we were going to be in it!  And we were going there to win!  I was so very excited I almost kicked me heels! 

        Every day my master, Fred, wore his boots to show to his third grade class.  They were proud of him for trying and I was too!  Both of us were excited to the point of jumping up and down.  Pretty soon after that we were all situated in the car and ready to go.  After a five minute traffic delay and many honking of the horns, we finally got there.

        Just as we got out of the car, Fred saw his best friend, Lilli, and went running to see her. But on the way SQUISH!  Fred made me step into a nasty pile of grossness.  I had no idea what it was, but it smelled ten times worse than Fred’s stinky feet.  As Fred walked over to Lilli, I do not know how, but I did not faint or suffocate. Anyway, Lilli and Fred talked till it was time to get on the bulls and pretty soon I aired out. 

Lilli, went first and did really well, for a girl.  Then a little while after that it was our turn.  WE did amazing never fell off once!  WE also got off perfectly until I accidently squeezed the bull’s ribs too hard and it jumped which sent Fred flying through the air, but he actually landed on his feet! He was so happy!  Fred bowed and bowed like he actually mean to do it.  Well, as he walked up to Lilli I saw she was wearing the cutest pink and purple boots with white stitching I have ever seen in my whole life.  Talk about Hot Momma! I was still covered with the gooey substance from earlier that afternoon.  She smiled her little white fancy stitched smile.  And of course, I smiled back feeling my piping turn a bright shade of red; you can’t be rude to a lady, especially as adorable as this!

        I knew I was just going to have to pull myself up by my boot straps, bet past my embarrassing situation, and introduce myself, dirt and all to this vision of pink loveliness.  I managed to sputter out, “Hello, my name is Steve.”  She smiled again and said her name was Lillian, after her mistress.  We talked for a while about our dreams and funny stories about our masters.  WE had talked for a long time and finally it was time to go.  Lillian and I exchanged our goobyes wondering when we would see each other again.  Then probably the best thing happened to us.  Fred’s mom offered to take Lilli over to our house for dinner and play date with Fred. Somehow it all worked out, but the best thing was Lilli was moving across the street from us!  I am going to have a great summer!  Oh, the rodeo folks called Fred and said we won the contest!

Yeeeeeeeehaw!

Sole Mates

Anna Gonzales

Hi!  I am one of a pair of glass slippers.  I will tell you the worst thing that has happened to me.  One night my owner was plopping down the stairs.  I noticed that my owner’s underwear had holes in them.  It was not pretty.  A man was calling my owner say, “Come back.  What is your name?”  Suddenly I was left on a step!  Can you believe that? Plus my other half was gone!

            The man picked me up.  I thought he was going to try me on. He took me to another man that seemed to be his father.  The man asked, “What are you going to do with this shoe?”  The other man said, “I will marry whoever fits and owns this shoe.  He rushed me up the stairs and set me on a pillow. 

            The next morning the man took me outside.  I arrived at someone’s house.  The lady who lived in the house tried me on.  When she tried me on I wiggled, sloshed, and her toes barely came to my opening.  I fell and almost shattered. I think her foot was too small. I had no idea what time it was because I had nowhere to put a watch.  I needed to know what time it was because the fairy god mother said, “If one shoe is separated from the other shoe for longer than a day, they will both disappear.” That is why I needed to know the time because we had been separated for almost twenty-three hours.

            A few minutes later I arrived at a huge house and two of the women there tried me on.  I was stretched and pulled.  When the man holding me began to walk away I heard a familiar voice saying, “Wait! Let me try it on,” as a girl came into the room carrying my twin.  She tried me on and what do you know, it fit.  We were so happy when we were joined together as sole mates.

Sole Mates

Splash!

Spurs and White stitching