This Take Ten to Write story was submitted by 12-year-old Mary. Happy reading!

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Prologue

At sunset, someone was at the park sitting on a bench when 2 swans swam past each other in the lake. They noticed each other and instantly couldn’t stop looking at each other. The person thought that they might fall in love and they did. A few weeks later the person came back to the park. The person noticed that the swans had babies and called a few animal caretakers to look at the baby swans. They developed a checklist of what they could do to help the baby swans before releasing them back into the wild.

Checklist

Feed Them – Mike
MARCH 2013

• Buy them some food
• Buy them a food dish
• Give them some food if they don’t eat by themselves

Teach Them to Fly – Tammy
MARCH 2013

• Get parent swans to teach babies to fly 
• Watch babies fly and feed them as rewards

Give Them a Drink– Polly
MARCH 2013

• Get them some clean water
• Buy them a water bottle/dish
• Give them some water if they don’t drink by themselves

Back to the Wild

Release Them to the Wild – Kia
MARCH 2013

The swans were sent back to the wild and were very happy with their parents.

Epilogue

To the person who saw the swans fall in love,

The babies grew up to have babies of their own, who were taken back to us, the animal caretakers to be cared for before being released to the wild. – Kia