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Heroes I Have Known |
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| Among my friends in fourth grade were a few kids we considered heroes. | ||
| Now these were not your every-day type heroes. They were just kids who | ||
| enjoyed helping other people. | ||
| Nancy was one such hero. She was my best friend. There was a big difference | ||
| between us. I was tall and skinny, just like my dad. Nancy was the smallest | ||
| girl in fourth grade. | ||
| Nancy was a hero because she stood up to the biggest, meanest kid in school. | ||
| From Jim even the other boys ran. He was six feet tall (at least it seemed that | ||
| way to us little kids) and always on hand to cause trouble. Few people knew | ||
| what to do about him especially Miss Thompson, our teacher. At eleven he was | ||
| older and taller than any other kids in her class and was there for the third time. | ||
| Nancy was a well-behaved little girl. Some of the kids even called her a nerd. | ||
| She wore frilly dresses, white knee socks and shiny black shoes. Nancy was | ||
| definitely not a tomboy. But when Jim teased me, her best friend, she took | ||
| after him with a huge stick and chased him clear across the schoolyard. | ||
| Jim was so embarrassed he went into hiding. When he finally dared show his | ||
| face again, he had lost the reputation he had worked so hard to gain. Now he | ||
| was just a coward. | ||
| Tommy Anderson was another one of our heroes. He was a kid who could make | ||
| a mountain out of a molehill. He saved old Mrs. Applebee from the butchers' | ||
| Great Dane. It wasn't much of a rescue. Butch only wanted the piece of meat | ||
| he smelled and which happened to be in Mrs. Applebee's purse. Within an | ||
| hour the story was out that Mrs. Applebee would have been brutally attacked | ||
| by a savage pack of wild dogs, but had been rescued by our hero Tommy. | ||
| Then there was Sydney. Sydney was a sneak. He made a habit out of saving | ||
| girls. He raised frogs. Whenever he saw a girl one or two of his frogs would | ||
| accidentally escape. Of course he could not let the girl suffer, so he would | ||
| recapture the frogs and save the girl from a fate worse than death. | ||
| As for me, I was never much of a hero. The only person I ever saved was | ||
| myself. | ||
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