By Leila

Once upon a time there lived a man who lived on a hill and never came outside his home. Nobody knows what the old man has been up to because he never ever came out of his home.

One day two kids thought they could scared the old man out of his house but they thought wrong. When they walked up to the old house and they ran home because the smell of the pepper  was so strong that they thought he was trying to scare them away. But the old man would never do a thing like that.

The old man just wanted a friend to talk to and to sell his pepper. One day the old man put a sign out that said peppers for 2 dollars. Every time when somebody walked up to buy something they ran away because of the smell.

The man felted bad because of the smell. The man said,”I feel so bad nobody wants to buy my peppers, and the smell of my house stinks.”  Then the man saw somebody walking up the hill with their money out ready to buy some of the man’s peppers.

The man started to say welcome would you like some of my peppers? The woman looked at the man in a strange way. She said “what do you mean?” The man said “some of my peppers, are you going to buy them?”

Then the woman said “ no i am not but i am going to the store right behind your house to get something to eat.” then the man felt so sad that he had taken down the sign and sprayed his house with good smell spray and he felt a little better.

Then the lady that had passed him knocked on the door and the man said “ come in.” Then the lady opened the door and said “ I have some soup for you that I bought with my money.” Then the man said “ thank you and you may sit with me if you want and i am sorry about the smell.” So the both of them sat down and ate.

A few weeks past on and the old man started getting people to buy his peppers and the smell of the house was not too bad because the lady that had came gave him some spray to use. So he said to the next person that walk up to him “ what ma’am why are you getting out your money you do not need to pay these peppers are for free.”
That is why he got so many people that wanted to buy the peppers. The next few years past by it started to get colder and colder by the minute. The pepper man did not have much protection. Soon the pepper man became sad because it was getting cold outside and nobody visited him.