"The Dragon (Part IV)"

          by Nathaniel Richard Patton (at age 8)

Once upon a time there was a dragon who was very poor.
He was very rude. He was also very sad.  He was so sad he 
went to see the king.( who is a lion!)  Well he went up to 
him and said your highness can you loan me some money?(or gold?)
in his rude voice.  The King did not know what to say, so he 
just said, "Yes."  

The King called for his gold and said to the dragon , "Here, take 
this.  You need it more than I do."

So he took the gold and went home.  As he walked home he said 
to himself, " I think I need to go to the market to get some food."  
So he went to  the market to get some food with his gold.  Then 
after a while he went home to his pet bobcat.  Then when he ran 
out of gold he went back to the King and asked him again for 
gold.  He said , "Yes."  

He kept on doing this for months.  Then one day the King  asked 
the dragon a question.  He asked him if he would be king when he 
died because he had no children.   The dragon said "Yes, with 
delight."  The King was very old and then the day came when the 
King died and the dragon became king and he lived happily ever 
after.  The End!