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    A Troll's Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon
    A Troll's Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon
    A Troll's Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon
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    A Troll's Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon

    By Carl Reader

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    When a boy from Ireland finds a little man dragging a chest of gold across a forest floor, he mistakes him for a leprechaun. He is granted wishes, but all the wishes go terribly wrong, so wrong that the two of them end up on the moon chased by a crocodile. They blast off and return to a crash landing on earth, where one comes to a sad ending and the other learns about friendship and courage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarl Reader
    Release dateSep 25, 2010
    ISBN9781452337166
    A Troll's Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon
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    Carl Reader

    Carl Reader trained as a journalist at Temple University and has worked as a reporter, photographer and editor in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Montana. He's published short stories in literary magazines and on the Internet and has self-published a children's Christmas story called THE TWELFTH ELF OF KINDNESS.That book was partially published in Russia under the Sister Cities program. He's also self-published a novella called THE PERSECUTION OF WILLIAM PENN, which has been well-received in several college libraries. He works as a professional photographer and freelance writer.

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      A Troll's Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon - Carl Reader

      A Troll’s Gold and A Crocodile on the Moon

      By

      Carl Reader

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Carl Reader

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All characters in these stories are purely fictional.

      Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is strictly coincidental.

      A Troll’s Gold

      And

      A Crocodile on the Moon

      By

      Carl Reader

      Copyright Carl Reader

      Chapter I

      Warren Bartlett came around a curve in the forest path and saw a little man straining to drag a chest full of gold across autumn’s forest floor. Never before had Warren seen anything so amazing as the gold piled high in the chest, and the little man huffed and puffed while dragging the chest through the leaves and then he stopped. At first, Warren was not sure the round yellow coin the little man then took out of the chest and held up before his eyes was real gold, but it shone like the sun in a lake at sunset.

      After school, Warren had been walking through the forest alone. He had just moved with his family to the outskirts of this forest and he had no friends here. He had stopped at a clearing where the little man had pushed a big rock aside and removed the chest of gold from a hole in the damp, red earth. The little man, who had a bushy red beard and hair, had opened the lock on the chest with a key hanging from a ring on his belt. Inside the chest were hundreds of what looked like gold coins, and the little man ran his fingers through them before dragging the chest along.

      Warren knew how valuable the gold was, but thought that the little man might talk to him about other interesting things. Warren didn't care too much about the gold, but it looked very old. Gold, Warren knew, should be shiny and bright, like the sun, but this gold shone as though it had been shining for a thousand years, with an old glow. Warren wondered why.

      Excuse me, sir, he said to the little man, who wore muddy blue pants, black boots, and a red flannel shirt and had hands that were far too big for the rest of his body. I see that you have -

      As soon as the round little man heard someone behind him, he leaped up into the air, frightened. Eeeck! he cried, jumping so high that he bumped his head on a branch ten feet above the ground. Then he fell in a heap at Warren's feet, moaning and rubbing his head, like a pile of dirty clothes that could groan. His hands were so big one of them covered the entire top half of his head.

      I'm so sorry, said Warren, rushing to him. The little man appeared not to be hurt. Warren tried not to laugh, knowing it would be rude, but the sight of the crumpled little man on the forest floor was ridiculous.

      O-oh, ouch, groaned the little man, pulling on his beard with one hand while the other hand was still on the

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