Justine

            How crow got his voice    

Once there lived a boy raven and a girl fox. Everyone in the raven’s town said, “She will eat you.” Fox’s dad said, “Eat him and his family!” The couple left so they wouldn’t have hear that nonsense.  

Three years later fox and raven had a baby that was a crow. Raven said, “We don’t want any voiceless babies.” Then fox pushed him into a stone cave that was very dark and said, “Leave him here forever” and they left no one has seen them since.     

   

Something that was unusual about crow was that he didn’t know how to speak. One day he went on a journey to find his family. On the way he passed a valley with pink, yellow, blue, and red flowers. When he got to the forest he saw oak and apple trees. Then he flew up and looked down and saw a fox in a log. He wanted to ask her something but he couldn’t speak! The little fox asked, “What is your name?” Then he tried to say something. Three minuets later crow landed but the little fox ran away. 

Then the little fox turned around and yelled, “You will get eaten up by my dad!” 

Then crow thought, “What for?” He flew away so he could live. Then he noticed that a vine was wrapped around his foot. The father fox was coming! The father fox pulled on the vine. Right then the fox snapped the vine with his sharp teeth. Crow left wondering if the fox let him go on purpose or by accident.

Crow flew five miles and then dropped to the ground because he was tired. Then he looked up and saw a snake! Crow was so startled that he made his first loud noise. The snake hissed, “Ssssstop or I will go deaf and I’m only sssssix years old.” From that day on crow would make that noise. He would try to show everyone that he had a voice.                  

  The end