Jack the Candlestick Hopper

Jack, be nimble,
Jack, be quick,
Jack, jump over
The candlestick.

Jack jumped high
Jack jumped low
Jack jumped over
and burned his toe.

                Jack was a former elf that worked for Santa Clause. One day Jack was working on a toy and he messed it up so bad that it looked like the checkered spaces on the checker board were circles. Some of the elves thought it was cool the way Jack changed the game, but Santa didn’t. He kicked Jack out of his workshop because when it comes to the toys, Santa doesn’t joke around.

                Now, you see Jack had a family. He had a wife and three little baby elves that he had to support. He decided to go to the park to relive some stress. As he was sitting on the bench watching the children play on the equipment, he heard their parents talking about the new Elf Games that were going to be starting soon. He asked them if they knew what the person got if they won. They said that the champion would receive 1,000,000 dollars! Now, you can imagine what was going through his head when he heard this news. I mean this elf he had gotten laid off from Santa! What else was he going to do?

                Jack told his wife everything that happened and she agreed with him to go to the Elf Games and compete. After all if he didn’t win he could just find another job. Later that evening he went to the building to sign up for the games.

                The next day Jack was training for the games. He saw and giant candlestick. He asked the trainers what he was supposed to do with it. They said Jack, be nimble, Jack, be quick, Jack you have to jump over this candlestick. He practiced and practiced very hard. He thought he was ready for the games!

                The day of the games people came from all over the world. Not just elves but fairies, princesses, princes, queens, kings, the three blind mice, (I’m not sure why they came they couldn’t see it anyways) some pigs and a wolf. The contestants lined up. They were all excited for the games they all thought they could win it! First was the elf jimmy. He went and jumped over that candlestick perfectly. Up next was Billy, he also did it flawlessly! As Jack was watching this he thought that there was no chance that he could win. He was up next. He ran as fast as he could. Jack jumped high then Jack jumped low. Jack jumped over and burned his toe! He didn’t win the Elf Games.

                After his horrible loss Jack went home to only tell his family the bad news. They would have been able to see it but they had no more money. Jack went job hunting and he found a job down in the United States to wash the humans’ shoes. Now, Jack wasn’t Jack the candlestick hopper, instead he was Jack the shoe shiner.