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My first elementary graded reader is based upon the story by Tex Mumford.
The Storm
by Zdenek Rotrekl
“Are you looking for the bank robbers? I am just reading about it in the newspaper.”
“Really,” says the big man. “Can I have a look at the newspaper, mister …”
“John Long and this is Green Horse.”
David looks at the sheriff’s star and goes out of the room. He goes out of the house and he is
really happy to see their men coming back from the town.
He runs to them and they listen to him.
“You could be right,” says Lem Carson. “We must go into the house now!”
A little later the six men go in with guns in their hands.
Rand and his men take guns too, but Carson shoots first and Rand drops his gun. The three men
give up.
David runs to his father. He is fine.
“They are the bank robbers. They know all about it. But how do you know?” his father asks.
“On the star there is: SHERIF with one F, not Sheriff with two F,” David says. “It is a fake.”
“Good job, son. You are clever.”