The Statue of Mr. Sparkleberry

Dedicated to:

My niece and nephew and kids that like candy everywhere.

By: Nathan Knowles

One day during a cold and crispy winter night.

flew a firefly. He got caught up in the winter wind with some snow drift and flying leaves

from the nearby park pleasant oak trees. His light began to flicker before it went out after

he hit against the statue of the founder of the town’s statue Mr. Stackleberry.

All of a sudden the statue began to come to life.

I am freezing said Mr. Stackleberry holding on tight to his glittering magic sports coat. It was full of glitter in all sorts of colors such as bright green, blue, purple, and even some pink.

He got down from his perch, a monument 5 feet tall, that left a brief bio of the gentleman along with his birthdate and age at death.

With his umbrella, he went around town, tell he got to a Freddie’s barber shop. He knocked real light on the glass door and it broke, he was still made of Iron he so supposed.

He unlocked the latch, rolled up in the corner to keep warm and fell asleep.

The next morning kids in town visiting the park pointed out that the statue of Mr. Stackleberry was gone. The town all got alarmed, they all got together at the park, where the Mayor Mr. Robby Marks

gave and impressive speech encouraging the town they would get this statue back and that the criminals who vandalized their towns patriarch would see Justice.

The Town of Benny, soon would know that they finally got their first mayor back, he had been missing in action for the past 200 years.

Who are you? Get out get out!, said Freddie, waving and hitting the poor man with his broomstick, as Mr. Stackleberry got up and awake grabbing his top hat, and running out of the place.

Soon later on that afternoon the news had been going around that a new stranger was in town, leaving broken glasses and things around because he was a bit clumsy as well as very strong. That he was an older man, with a curly mustache and had black hair, and looked most familiar. He went to the candy store and was a huge hit with the kids; he would pass out candy he had bought, to all the kids that came to look at his most fancy coat. It looked like a wonderful display of Christmas lights. They were all amazed. The kids would put it if he let them or touch it themselves. One child real young gave Mr. Stackleberry his colorful Yo-yo, and he began to use it, doing all sorts of tricks, like around the world, rock the baby and walk the dog.

Soon he took them all to the ice cream shop, where they had been selling cocoa during the winter months, and everybody got a hot mug of cocoa with a scoop of their favorite ice cream. They were having so much fun, then all of a sudden, the town’s mayor and the kids parents came in with one of the town’s news reporters and began to ask him who are you?

He told them who he was and they were all speechless and fell to the floor, leaving Mr. Stackleberry so surprised and also the woman who worked at the place. They went up to each person splashing water on or slapping their face, tell they all got up and sat at a table with a cup of cocoa with their favorite ice cream scoop in it too.

The Ice-cream lady and Mr. Sparkleberry; as the kids called him so, like Jane and Rusty, the town’s trash man’s kids, just sat together looking at one another with what seemed to be love at first sight. The town began to realize that their town’s blessed first mayor and founder had come back to life, that his statue was missing that it was this new stranger it was him. The years that followed were pleasant, however the town would always make sure, Mr. Stackleberry’s arms and legs were covered with foamy cushion, his strength was as strong as the bronze and iron that his statue was made.

The End.