GARFIELD — One day a maid was cleaning a rich lady’s house. She noticed a painting that was so dusty, so she decided to dust it. While she was rubbing the painting with a cloth, her hand went into the painting!

She put her whole body into the painting!

She was suddenly in a different world! She knew it, but she didn’t quite understand how that painting put her in this new world. So, she just carried on.

She made some friends and had some exciting times.

The maid wasn’t a maid there, she was a princess! The new princess didn’t know it yet, though. Some of her new friends that she had made were Rose, Hanna, Aaron and Vally. Hanna told her that she was princess. The maid was surprised!

“Oh, really?!”

Then the new princess decided to go back to the rich house where she first began. Her new home was average and plain, plain, plain, eventhough it was a castle.

She searched for her way back home, but could not find the way.

She looked everywhere! She looked under a mirror, under everything, she even looked under the castle! She still could not find her way.

Finally, there was a painting. It was just like the one in the rich lady’s house. She went into the painting the same way that she entered it the first time.

There she was, back in the rich lady’s home, right where she belonged.

She was just a maid, again, dusting just as before.

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Editor’s note: Jessamie Pavatt is a third-grade student at Garfield Elementary School and is the daughter of Aaron and Tracie Pavatt.

School, Pages 13 on 01/26/2011