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heres a story about a magic potato



There once was a young orphan named Jonathon, and although he kept to himself he had three friends, one the son of a farmer, the second a daughter of a seamstress and third the son of a wealthy man. They all were very good friends and loved playing pranks on their friend’s fathers and mothers.
One day they were playing in the farmers potato fields, picking potatoes, the orphan picked very big potatoes and to his surprise it started talking. “Who dares disturb the potatoes spud, consumer of the flesh.” said the potato, when all of a sudden it stopped, looked at the orphan boy, and said, “You are but a small orphan boy, not much meat on you, but as I am starving you will have to do.” The orphan boy begged on his knees to make the potato not eat him. The potato agreed only if he could bring him 3 humans for his ghastly apatite, and for every human he leads to the deadly spud, John would get 1 wish. John would have to find them, lure them to the spud so they could be devoured and he could get his reward.
So he sped off, lost to his greed he chose his friends as the victims.
His first stop was at the farmer’s house, where he knocked on the door. A boy answered and the orphan said that he was going to go to the potatoes fields to play some more pranks on the father. The boy agreed and they wandered off into the potatoes fields where the deadly spud devoured his friend.” What would you like for your first wish?” The deadly spud asked, quite contently. The orphan thought, than wished for a fine steed, that was as swift as the wind, and which would never grow old and die. The potato granted his wish, and then sent him off to get the next victim.
So the boy trotted off thinking of a way to persuade the daughter to come with him and go to the potato. Finally he thought of something to convince the girl. He arrived and ran up to the door and knocked. The daughter answered and the boy asked if she would want to go to the fields to replace her mothers thread with potatoes peals. The daughter agreed, then off they went, to the fields to make the trade. The daughter was swiftly devoured by the potato. The potato belched and said. “Your wish?” The orphan boy wished to have a house crafted from amethyst that would never dull in shine. The potato granted his wish, and as the boy looked far across the field, and upon a hilltop, a glimmering wonder appeared, dazzling with amazing light.
The orphan boy then thought about what his last wish would be, as he approached the rich boy’s house. He knocked on the door and the rich boy answered, the orphan said there was a beautiful house on out skirts of town, and that they should go there, but that they would have to cut through the potatoes fields. They went, and cut through the potatoes fields and that’s when the potato gulped down his last victim and said.” Your desire?” the boy then wished for riches so he lived out the rest of his life without lifting a finger. So the potatoes granted his wish and lay back to digest.
The orphan rode back to his home glimmering in the sun light, went in and flopped down on his bed and contemplated the day’s events. But the more he thought of it the more he missed his friends and realized he had done a terrible thing, so he set off back to the potatoes but when he got there all he found was the hard soil the potatoes had sprouted from. so he sat there and wept for his bitter mistake, then he went back to his house and sat and faded away because he had no one in his life who could comfort his pain………………..