Sally's Money

Hello, everyone.

    The story that I am going to tell you is my own creation. It is the story of a little girl who lost her hard earned money.

    Read on and find out how she found her money.

Sally’s Money

    Sally was a ten year old little girl. One thing she loved to do was to make necklaces, earrings and bracelets out of beads. She had a lot different kind of beads and in many different colours. She would just sit on the doorstep of their house and make them.

    She was having summer holidays. As always she sat down on the doorstep with her beads and threads and started to make a necklace. It was half done and already it was looking very beautiful. She was using pearl like beads in white pink and grey. She made simple and yet very attractive looking necklace.

    Now, as it happened a lady was passing by and she saw Sally working away on her necklace. She was curious and stopped to look at what Sally was doing. When she saw the necklace she was very impressed.

    “Wow! What a beautiful necklace!” she exclaimed. “Do you make earrings and bracelets to go with it?”

    “Yes, Ma’am,” Sally replied, “I make the whole sets.”

    “Can you make a set for me?” she asked. “I will pay you.”

    Sally got excited. Here was someone who wanted her to make the bead sets for her and she was ready to pay for it! But she had never done it for people so she did not know how to go about it and besides she would have to ask her mother’s permission.

    “I have never done it for people before,” Sally replied, “I will have to ask my mother about it.”

    “That’s alright,” the lady said. “You can ask your mother. I will come to see you tomorrow and then you can tell me.”

    The lady went away and Sally ran inside to ask her mother at once.

    “Mother, Mother,” she shouted excitedly before she had reached the kitchen. “You won’t believe what just happened.”

    “Whoa, what’s all the hurry?” her mother asked.

    “A lady wants me to make a bead set for her,” she said, her eyes shining. “I said I would let her know after I have asked your permission. Can I make it for her?”

    “Well, you can,” said her mother, “but we will have to calculate and see what price to tell her. I will do the calculations and then tell you, alright?”

    “Alright, Mother,” replied Sally.

    So, that day Sally’s mother calculated everything and then told her the price.

    Next day, that lady came again to see Sally. Sally told her the price and she agreed and told her to make a set for her.

    Now slowly, Sally’s customers started to grow. All the money she made she put it in an envelope and kept it in her cupboard. One day, when she counted her money she saw that some of it was missing, about one hundred dollars. She started searching here, there and everywhere but just could not find it. She really got frustrated and went to her mother.

    “Mother, some of my money is missing,” she told her. “I have looked everywhere but cannot find it.”

    “How much is it?” her mother asked her.

    “One hundred dollars,” she said in a very distressed voice. “What shall I do?”

    “You must have misplaced it,” her mother suggested.

    “No, Mum,” she said. “I never leave it anywhere so how can I misplace it.”

    So her mother joined in the search. They looked everywhere but they were nowhere to be seen.

    “Look, Sally,” her mother said, “sometimes it’s better to get away from what you are doing if you get stuck. When you come back with a fresh mind the problem gets solved very easily.”

    “Alright, Mother,” Sally said in a small voice.

   “Go and do something else,” her mother advised. “Forget about it for a while. Believe me you will find your money.”

    Sally nodded her head and went away to work on her order for a bead necklace set. Soon she got absorbed in her and forgot her lost money for a while.

    The next day, she had to work indoors as it was raining outside. She sat down in a sofa chair and started doing her work. When she was tired she stretched her arms and then put her one of her hands in the side of the sofa and she felt something like paper there. She dug her hand deeper and fished out the paper. And when she looked at the paper she almost jumped for joy! It was her missing hundred dollar bill!

    She took it and ran to show her mother.

    “Mother, Mother,” she shouted, “look what I found!”

    “Well, well, well,” her mother said, smiling. “Wherever did you find it?”

    “It was in side of the sofa,” Sally said.

    “See, I told you to quit looking for it for a while” her mother said, “because you were so frustrated you were not able to think properly. So now you have found it.”

    “But, Mother, I wonder how it got there.”

    She sat down and tried to figure out how it got there and then she remembered. She had been counting her money in that chair and so maybe one note must have slipped in the side.

    From that day onwards, Sally was very careful with her money.