long long ago , there was an old tiny man named tony. he was ugly and he had no hair. some people lived in the village called him ugly tony or bald tony, but most of all called him tiny tony, because he was unbelieveble short, he was just 1.4 meters height. tiny tony lived in sunny forest alone. he had a little wooden house which at the end of the forest. tony made a living by cutting trees. he had no hobby but napping. once, he woke up after a long nap. to his surprise, he was in his shoe! he became very small, just like an ant!
he didn’t know what to do, so he fell asleep again. the day is gone, a little girl found him in his little wooden house. she woke him up. “oh, are you living in a shoe? ” he got angry about woking up by a stranger. “no，i am old tony. there is someone calls me tiny tony……” “but you are tiny! nice to meet you, can you be my friend? because i don’t have any friend at all. and my name is phoebe! ”
tony started to like this girl. he said, “can you take me away, i am hungry. and apparently , i can’t leave this place all by myself.” “i’d love to.” and then , phoebe put him into her pocket , and run away happily. after a while , tony asked, “why did you get to my house? it’s really far from the town.” phoebe stopped running , said, “there is a horrible monster coming to the village. i heard that there is a magic stone in the forest. i think it might help.” “hmm……i know where the magic stone is.” tony said slowly. “i am the magic stone.”
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phoebe backed to the village,and beat the monster with the magic stone. all the people are very happy. they regarded her as a hero, everyone stated to make friends with her. however, it seems that it won’t be easy to cheer her up anymore. poeple found that when she was alone, she always sang a song, “there was a tiny man, who had no hair, he lived in a shoe, and smiled friendly” but there is nobody remember tony except phoebe.
（指導老師： 張苑 廣東省中山市民眾中學）