Narrative Essay About a Dragon

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This story begins with Once Upon A Time, because the best stories do, of course. So, Once Upon A Time, and imagine if you can, a steep sided valley cluttered with giant, spiky green pine trees and thick, green grass that reaches to the top of your socks so that when you run, you have to bring your knees up high, like running through water. This particular summer had been very hot and dry, making the lean farm dogs sleepy and still. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the town would be in a haze of slumber, with grandmas nodding off over their knitting and farmers snoozing in the haystacks. It was very, very hot. No matter how hot the day, however, the children would always play in the gentle, Rolling Meadows. With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they played in their favourite spot. Now, their favourite spot is very important to this story because in this particular spot is a large, long, scaly rock that looks amazingly similar to a sleeping dragon. The children knew it was a dragon. The grownups knew it was a dragon. The dogs and cats and birds knew it was a dragon. But nobody was scared because it never, ever moved. Often on a cool night, when the stars were twinkling brightly in a velvet sky and the children peacefully asleep, the grownups would settle for the evening with a mug of steaming cocoa in a soft cushioned armchair. Then the stories about How The Dragon Got There began. Nobody knew for sure, there were many different versions depending on which family told the tale, but one thing that everybody agreed on, was this: In Times of Trouble The Dragon will Wake And Free the Village By making a Lake This little poem was imprinted into everybody's minds and sometimes appeared on tea towels and grandma's stitching. The days went by slowly, quietly and

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