Jonas Clark

Jonas Clark


I am Jonas Clark and I am 13 years old. I was born November 27, 1760. I help my father with chores including cutting hay, plowing fields, and caring for the animals.

One day I looked out the window and saw David Whitney, Lovinia Hosmer, John Parker and Isaac Parker playing on Cambridge Common. I looked at my pocket watch my father gave to me for my birthday. It was break time from chores, so I ran down stairs to meet them.

John Parker is 14 and Isaac Parker is 12, but everyone else is 13 like me.

They were playing who has the button. I sat down in the circle. John Parker gave it to someone. I guessed that Isaac Parker had it. and David Whitney guessed that Lavinia Hosmer had it and he was right! So David gave the button to someone else.

Then I said, "Let's play with the big hoop."
David went first. He got it 30 feet. Then Lovinia got it 9 feet. And I got it 69 and 1/2 feet. They all admitted I won!


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