One Man Band
There was a man who was playing lots of instruments while
standing. He looked around, there was nobody to be seen. He looked
around again. Walking to a fountain was a little girl. With a coin in
her hand the girl was heading to the founain. It seemed like she was
going drop the coin into the fountain, when suddenly she heard a trumpet
blow. The man started playing all of his instruments at once. The girl
seemed to like the music and walked towards the man. The man quickly
kicked his money pot towards the girl so the girl could put her coin in.
She was about to put her coin into the man’s moneypot when suddenly she
heard the sound of a violin from a few meteres behind her. Another man
appeared with a violin and a cone shaped hat. The little girl rushed
over to the man with the violin with her single coin. And out of his
cone shaped hat sprung an empty cone shaped money bucket for the girl to
put her coin in.
But just when she was going to put the coin into the mans coned
shaped bucket, the girl heard another instrument from behind her and
the first man was playing the trumpet using one of his drums as a
unicycle. But then he failed and fell off of the drum. Elegantly the
second man who had a cone hat carried on playing. Suddenly the man with
the trumpet started doing a terrific jazz solo. The girl was turning
around to give him a coin when the other man with the violin scraped
hard with the violin stick up on the violin and then he threw away his
old stick and got a new one from his bag. First he played a little bit
of his keyboard, then he started strumming at his violin hard. Once
again the girl still with a coin in her hand turned around getting ready
to give him the coin. The trumpet drum man saw this and he went to a
higher level. He quickly pulled a cord that was connected to his drum.
Out of the top of his drum poped out a spring sort of thing holding lots
of cardboard people with mini trumpets automatticly playing the
trumpets. The second man did something to make lots of small violins pop
out from his back extending to the left and right of his shoulders. The
violin man’s violins from the side also played automattically.
The two men were now walking nearer and nearer to each other
while they were playing their instruments. There seemed to be some
rivalry going on. Both of them were playing one note and another and in
the end they were face to face playing at the same time. They were
actually kind of hitting each other’s instruments. They may not have
known this but they were actually making a sound with them playing at
the same time. But then they really started pushing and shoving
eachother and they were getting closer and closer to the girl. They got
so close that it was too much for the girl who still had the coin in her
hand. It was way too noisy for the girl, that as she tried to cover her
ears, she dropped her coin onto the ground.
The coin strated rolling towards a gutter. The two musicians
and the little girl watched helplesly as the coin rolled and rolled and
eventualy fell into the gutter. She had a sad look on her face. She
started sniffing and she angrly held out her hand at the trumpet man and
the violin man so that they could give her back her coin. The trumpet
man touched his clothes showing he had no money. Neither did the violin
mn have any money. The girl pointed at one on the violins suggesting
that the violin man should give her a violin. The trumpet man pulled it
off and put it in front of her hands. She snatched it off him and the
trumpet man also gave her a stick to play with. She also grabbed that
off him. She walked back and pulled up the fallen down pot. (She still
had a very angry face). She strummed the violin, it did’nt sound right
so she tuned the violin. She strummed again, It screeched she tuned it
again. The men were still watching her getting ready to cover their
ears. But then she started playing the violin like a proffesional and
she carried on playing like this. Some random person appered from
nowhere and walked over to her and droped a whole bagful of coins onto
the pot and walked off. She stopped playing and a smile came on her
face.
She picked up the bag of coins and walked to the fountain with
the men watching. She picked up one coin out of her bag. Fasinated,
the men smiled and thought that she was going to give it to one of them.
She flicked the coin and when they realised there were two coins, they
smiled even more. The girl shook the coins while smiling to herself. The
trumpet man and the violin man moved closer to her expectantly. Still
smiling the little girl threw the two coins into the top of the
fountain. The musicians’ jaws dropped
By nightfall, the two musicians were now helping each other,
still trying to get the two coins back from the fountain. Long after the
girl had gone.
What a story!!! Josiah, you have described the events very well...I like the flow of your ideas.
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