The Lost Boot: By Sinéad
We had been fishing one cold day but had caught nothing. We had decided to let out our fishing rods one last time. “I think I’ve caught something” exclaimed Niall. He reeled his rod in gently but to his surprise, there was no fish hanging on the end. Instead, everyone laughed, an old boot was hanging on the end of the rod. Mum and Aóife told Dad that the boot looked like Aóife and Niall’s Grandad’s old boot. “Is it Dad?, is it?”, asked the children. Mum and Dad answered “Yes it looks quite like Grandad’s old boot at his house.”
Mum gave a flask of tea and some sandwiches to the family. Not long after that, they left to go to Grandad’s house with the boot. The children ran straight in to see did the boot they found match grandad’s old one on the shelf. And to no surprise, it did match. The whole family were laughing and feeling very happy, it was wonderful.
Grandad said that he wore these shoes when he was 21. He is now 81. Grandad said he called them his lucky shoes. “Why?” asked the family. “Because I met your grannie in them many years ago” grandad replied. He went on to tell the old time stories of when he met grandma.