One day Uwo was going to visit her cousin Eng. She was on a train going to Eng's house. The train was being pulled by a steam engine. The steam engine exploded! "Help!," cried the driver. The fire shot right into a lake. Some magic dust fell into the lake! A pearl formed! It rolled down the track to the city where Eng lived.
Meanwhile, at a jewlery store in that city, the owner was wondering what type of jewlery he should put on the pillow in the window. All of a sudden, the pearl broke through the window and landed on the pillow. "Wow!", said the owner, "that problem is solved!"
Eng came into the jewlery store. She noticed the pearl was magic, so she bought it. While Eng was walking home, Trouble, a bad engine, came out of an alley, grabbed the pearl , and ran away. Eng chased him. Trouble threw the pearl into a lake. Eng ran twoards the lake. She tripped on some train tracks. Then she had an idea. The pearl was so heavy that it would take a train to pull it out! If this didn't work though, Eng would never get her three wishes.
Eng ran to a phone booth. She called up a train company. "Hello", cired Eng. "Who is it?" asked the man from the train company. "Never mind that," yelled Eng, "I need your help. My magic pearl fell into a lake and I want you..."
"Hold it, hold it," cired the man, "Magic, Smagic, there is no such thing. and besides, if you want an engine you're going to have to buy one."
Eng had no choice. She bough a steam engine. She got some rope. She rode to the lake on the steam engine. Eng dove into the lake. She pulled the rope down with her and attached it to the pearl. Then she attached the other end to the train.
The train pulled the pearl out and Eng got the 3 wishes. And she was very happy.
The End.
Copyright (c) 1999 by Kevin P. Gramlich. All rights reserved.