F-0020 A composition about hide-and-seek

(Said to be copied from a single page in a bound class anthology. The title and the class line are as in the original.)

Hide-and-seek

Class 3-2

I like hide-and-seek. On Sunday, four of us played hide-and-seek in the park.

I hid deep in the shrubbery. Inside the shrubbery it smells like dirt, and there are lots of pill bugs. Through the gaps in the leaves you can see a little bit of the slide. If you hide here, you never ever get found.

The kid who was it said, ready yet. I said, not yet. And then, right next to me, somebody said, not yet, too.

I thought somebody was hiding in the same spot, so I looked through the leaves. There was nobody. The grass was pressed down flat, like somebody was sitting there.

I heard, ready yet, one more time, and this time I stayed quiet. Only the voice next to me said, not yet. It was the voice of a kid about my age.

I came out of the shrubbery. If you come out on your own you lose, but I came out. The kid who was it said, I didn’t find you yet.

Since then I always hide behind the slide. Behind the slide you get found right away, so I always lose. But I think there is a kid in the shrubbery who is better at hide-and-seek than me.

(After the composition, in red ink, is the following.)

You observed very well. Next time, let’s write in the names of the friends you played with, too.