Unfinished Christmas Story: Ending by Kingdom McClatchy

Public Opinion invited children in grades through through eight from across the county to get creative this holiday season and write their own ending to an "Unfinished Christmas Story." 

The unfinished story, "The Little Wooden Soldiers," centered on two siblings faced with a tough choice: Should they give up a prized possession from their father, who is off fighting in the Civil War, to help homeless family friends?

Read the rest of the story, with the author's own ending, here. 

Below is one of the entries we received. Others can be found here. Except for the addition of some paragraph breaks, entries appear just as we received them. 

Kingdom McClatchy, third grade, Chambersburg

First Emma and Jed tried to trick him. Abner doesn’t fall for it and yells at them. They calmed him down. They tried to talk him out of it. But he wants the soldiers. He said, ”I will not give up"

They try to give him a present ...Doesn’t work. They tried to talk him out of it.

Jed and Emma run home to tell their mom. Mom says to tell him the the truth. They tell him the truth then he feels bad for them and leaves them alone. Mom is proud of them.

And Thomas and Molly live in their own house beside the farm. All thanks to Jed and Emma’s mom for selling cow meat and selling animals.