ne day, a man named Jack Marsh was walking down the street, headed for the mall. Then he found a wallet on the ground. He wasn't going to wave it around asking if anybody had lost their wallet, in fear of getting killed. So he decided to take it to the police. No, he thought, I'll keep it. He checked to see if there was any money in it. There was. One hundred dollars. So Jack put it in his pocket. He continued to the mall.

When he got there, he went to the drug store to pick up something for his cold that he had. When he was going to pay for it, he decided to use his new found money. He opened the wallet. There was fifty dollars more in it than last time.

'That's weird', thought Jack, 'I didn't put any more money in it'.

But he just payed for his medicine and left.

Then he went to the candy store. He opened his wallet once again and there was one hundred dollars more than last time. So he bought the candy and left. Then he went home.

As time passed, Jack noticed that every time he opened his wallet, there was more and more money in it. But soon he started to get greedy. He opened the wallet so much, that he was rich. He had over a billion dollars.

Until that one day.... One day he put money into his wallet, because he couldn't fit any more into his living room. For some reason, he never put any money into the wallet before. But anyway, he closed it, and later, opened it again. Then he noticed something. There was less money this time.

As time passed, Jack was losing a lot of money to the wallet. So he threw it in the garbage. Then he took a nap.

When he woke up, the wallet was right there on the coffee table next to him. He was startled. He threw the wallet onto the road and a truck ran over it. But then it came back. It began sucking the money up back into it. Soon all of Jack's money had disappeared. Then the wallet disappeared as well.

Well, I guess Jack learned a lesson. Now he lives in the gutter. He has no money at all. He lives by eating bugs and dirt off the ground. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha....

The End

Story by: Peter, age 13, Canada

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