

"Ten
steps from the porch and twenty steps from
the rose bushes," growled Bluebeard in
Jimmy's dream one night. "There be
treasure there! Aawrgh."
So the
next day Jimmy began to dig. He dug until
the hole was deep and the dirt pile was
high.

He kept digging. The hole got deeper and
the dirt pile got higher.

He dug
until the hole was deepest and the dirt
pile was at its highest. He sighed. "I'm
too tired. I can't dig anymore." Then he
spied something...

He dug
until the hole was deepest and the dirt
pile was at its highest. He sighed. "I'm
too tired. I can't dig anymore." Then he
spied something...

But when Jimmy's mother saw what he had
done, she clasped her hands and smiled a
smile from here to Sunday. "Oh, thank you,
Jimmy. I always wanted a rhododendron bush
planted just there. Here's $5.00 for
digging that hole."
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