Little Pear

Little Pear
By Eleanor Frances Lattimore
Report by Jonathan Hinrichs
Little Pear was a little boy who grew up in China. He was always getting into stuff, like mischief. He was the only boy in his family and he had two sisters.

Life in China was different from ours. For example, they shaved off all their hair except for a little bit on top that they grew long. They had fields instead of gardens. There were these trenches that they would flood and that would get more and more water until the vegetables were watered. Also, their beds were made out of bricks with blankets over them. There was just one bed. Under the bed there was fire. They would use the fire to heat themselves at night during the winter. During the day they would eat on top of their bed and cook in the fire.

Little Pear was always getting into mischief. One day he went down to the river. He fell into the river. He got saved by a man who put a long stick out to him and he grabbed it. When he got to shore he went home and all the men had been looking for him. Once Little Pear lit a firecracker and burnt a hole in his jacket. One day he wanted to go to a fair so bad that he hid in the cabbages that were in his father’s wagon so he could go to the fair. When he got to the fair everybody started laughing. His father was mad at first but then he saw everybody else laughing so he started laughing too.