This is my 9-year-old Granddaughters' version:
ChApter one
Once upon a time, there was a boy who was very popular in his school. One morning, he called his chaps to meet by his locker. Billy, who was his best mate, came first clutching a dusty box. Once everyone was gathered he opened the box. Inside the box were a chain of beads. Disaster! The beads fell apart and were rolling all over the floor. The string holding it together whanged through the corridor and down the steps. "Quickly!" he said "we need amass the beads before the headteacher sees!". The headteacher was playing the piano in his office when he heard a whang and went out to see what had happened. The boys were in trouble.
This is my version:
At this time of the year, the chaps would amass in the social hall for the annual competition to see how strange a noise each could make by causing a strangely decorated stick with a piece of leather attached to the end to whang through the air. One of the chaps would play the piano at full volume and there would be lots of loud banter going on. At the end, the winner, holding aloft the trophy, would lead a chain of the rest of them in a victory dance. The others would be chanting the name of the winner during the dance. The local residents tried to be out somewhere on this day of the year!
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