The Misfit Elephant
By:Austin.Black
the misfit elephant
once upon a time there was a elephant that was not like the others, he was more curious. He lived in an orphanage and lost his family when he was very little. No one wanted him because he was different from everyone else. And he also never followed the directions he was given. But one day a very nice family came and they adopted the strange elephant and when they got home they gave him some rules to follow. He really never followed the rules any way so he got in trouble a lot and he went to school and got suspended after a week so his parents where almost ready to give him back to the orphanage so he acted the best he could when he was around them but when they where gone he would break the rules and one day he did the first thing and the most important thing on the list of rules, playing with fire. So he was on the couch with a box of matches and then he lit one and the match ran out of stick to burn and it burnt his hand and in pain he dropped the match and the box of matches caught on fire and he poured water over it but it was already had the whole couch on fire and the small bucket wasn't going to work so he called 911 and fled he house before he gets trapped in the house with the fire. and when the elephants parents got home they got very mad and they where so mad they took him back to the orphanage and they never saw him again. And because of that he was never adopted again because no one wants a naughty child and he lived there for until he was old enough to get a job and a house and he lived by himself for many years and he always regretted being so immature when he was a child. But one day he found a girl and he got married and they