Madeleine5C+Winnie's+Journal

Dear Ms. J,
===I know I promised Ma and Granny I would write every day, but things have been buisier than I ever dreamed my boring old life could ever be. What happened is you know how I wanted to run away? So I go into the woods, and I come to this big clearing with a big ash tree and the most beautiful boy in the world taking a nap. And then he wakes up and moves this pile of rocks and this little fountain of water comes spurting out of the ground. Then he bends over and drinks from it ! So marvelous. Thats when he saw me I thought I was done for, I really did. Well I come out and ask for a drink and then //his// Ma and brother come along with this horse and I get put up there and we start leaving the wood in the opposite way from our cottage. We come to the edge of the world and who should we see other than the man in that ghastly yellow suit who came to our cottage the other night. I didnt tell you about that? Here is what happened he come to our house last night and he says he is looking for someone. '//Oh just a family'// profoundly annoying. Anyways so there he is on the road and all the lady, oh her name is Mae, says is " teaching our little girl how to ride." The crazy man just stands there does not even recognize me. So we come to this small stream and the Tucks, Mae, the lady, Jesse the Heavenly One, and Miles the Heavenly One's brother sit me down and tell me this slightly ludicrious story. So a while ago the get to the clearing with the ash tree and drink from the spring. Then all these ghastly things happen to the poor Heavenly One bad things happened to his family too. The Heavenly One's house is in a valley filled with trees, there is a small lake near His small three room cottage. Oh what a mess! If Ma had seen His house she would have fainted. Diner was flapjacks, bacon and bread, now dig this the only rule is no talking while there is food. Anyways His father ,Angus Tuck, invited me for a row on the lake. I greatly regretted leaving His presence. Oh here the Heavenly One comes will write later.===

**Dear Ms. J.,**
===**So His father, took me out on the lake in the row boat an says //"Life is like a wheel"// I mean really, then he starts explaining it. So I just about understand and am about to say //' I solemly swear I will not say a thing about the spring or you//' when His brother, Miles, said //"Pa the horse is gone. Somebody stole the horse.//" So their horse is gone yeah I suppose that is a problem.**===

**Dear Ms. J.,**
===**Uh!! I am so confused !!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was to dark to go out and look for the horse theif. So we go inside and Mae makes up a bed for me on the couch (wich is amazingly lumpy) with a hard flat chair cushion for a pillow. She tells me to go to sleep but I cant because how can thier story be true? Besides are they not criminals for kidnapping me? Then Mae comes out and says she was really sorry for kidnapping me. Now I am really confused because she is being so nice to me now but before she kidnapped me. She goes back to her room and Tuck comes out. He offers to stay up and sit with me until I go to sleep. I refused, of course, then he says he would trade places me if the bed was any better than the couch. Tthheenn, Jesse the Heavenly One comes down and says mabye I could wait until I was 17 and then drink some of the spring water. And we could get married. Isnt he romantic? Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.**=== = =

**Dear Ms J.,**
===This morning Miles comes in and invites me to go fishing with him he tells me all about his old family his youngest daughter was named Anna. So he catches a fish and its flopping around in the bottom of the boat and I tell him to put it back poor thing. He convinces me to keep the spring a secret. Well we dont catch any thing else so we head on into the house and the Heavenly One starts teasing Miles about not catching anything. We have breakfast same style as last time sitting around the parlor no tables. We was just finished breakfast when there was a knock at the door, It was that man in his ghastly yellow suit. He starts rambling on about how his grandma told him stories about a family that never got older he was obviousoly talking about the Tucks. It turns out he followed us and he was the horse theif! He is going to sell the spring water and he wants the Tucks to be freaks. Then the horse theif grabs me pulls me out of my chair and starts pulling me to the door. He's just got me out the door when Mae comes along and hits him on the head with the butt of Tucks shotgun!! well who happens to come along at that very moment other than than the Treegap constable. Tucks staring at the man enviously did I mention he wants to die? Well he does. So the constable is saying he is going to haul Mae of to the slammer and she might be hanged!! that would be diaster because she would not die and everybody will find out about the spring!!===

**Dear Ms J.,**
===**The constable took me home, the good man. Next morning I see the toad outside and Granny tells me that toads dont drink water they soak in through their skin! When I finally convince Granny to give me some water to give to the toad I go outside and he is gone. Oh well, instead there is Jesse, the Heavenly One. He tells me about their plan to bust Mae out of jail, Miles is going to remove Mae's window bars and all. Then Mae will climb out, I modified it a little, I will climb in and take Mae's place so the constable wont notice she is gone. I sneak out at midnight and meet Jesse at the gate I feel like I am in a dream. We go down to the jail. When we get to the jail I remebered an old poem ' Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage' After Mae is out of the jail and I am inside, the window is back only then do my stomach muscles loosen. I pull myself up on the bars to see out they are gone. Although they were out of sight I swear I could hear the melody from Mae's music box coming across the lawn. The Tucks my darling Tucks are gone.**===

Dear Ms. J.,
===The constable found me in the morning and said "//If you were older you would have to stay here"// then he used these words that sent shivers down my spine, they were accomplice and criminal. I saw the frog again, and I poured the water Darling Jesse gave to me on him. Well, I am a sort of hero now even though my parents are in disgrace. School will start soon, mabye I will actually have fun this year?===