horrors2

Hamelin.The_Painte.tex

 1\chapauth{Hamelin}
 2\chapter{The Painter}
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 8The boy who wanted to be a painter stared at his canvas. His canvas
 9was blank and it stared back at him. He had many other blank
10canvasses and they also stared at him. All the big squares of white
11were empty like his mind. He could think of nothing to paint onto
12the canvas. It drove him crazy. He would never be popular if he had
13nothing but blank canvasses! All of his friends told him that he
14would never be a painter. He knew he would show them.
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18Since there were no ideas in his head the wannabe painter put on
19his jacket and went to the art museum. There were a lot of
20paintings at the art museum. The difference between these paintings
21and his were that these paintings existed and his didn't.
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23``I wish I could paint paintings like these!'' The boy said out loud
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26``Paintings like these huh?'' A tall shadow suddenly appeared over
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29``Would you like to have paintings like these in this museum?'' The
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32The boy spun around and standing there blocking light was a tall
33gentleman. He was wearing a black overcoat over a black suit. The
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36``Yes! Yes I would! Can you help?'' The desperate wanna be painter
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39From the gentleman's overcoat the gentleman grabbed a small wooden
40box and handed it over. The box was made of dark wood and was very
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43``Take this box home, what is in it will help you put everything
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46``Really? Thank you sir!'' The boy jumped up and down
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49The tall gentleman walked away without another word.
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53Before he knew it the boy was home again. He locked the door and
54excitedly opened the box. Inside the box was a paintbrush. The boy
55took the paintbrush into his hand and it gave him an idea. He
56started to paint. He painted and painted. The sun went down while
57he painted, the sun came up and he was still painting. He painted
58on every single canvas in his home until he could paint no
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63Days passed and no one heard anything from the painter. He didn't
64show up to school. No one saw him at the park. After a week a group
65of his friends broke into his house. They wanted to know if the boy
66was ok. What they saw when they broke down the door were hundreds
67of canvasses in an empty house. Paintings of furniture, paintings
68of household objects, paintings of carpets, paintings of his
69parents. Paintings of everything that would be in a house but none
70of those things. As they dug through house they found the painter's
71last painting sitting on his easel. It was a painting of the
72painter himself.
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76Most of the paintings were put in the art museum. Everyone in the
77town was impressed by the paintings. Everyone wanted to meet the
78boy who painted all the amazing paintings. They would ask the
79museum employees about him. They would only say that no one knew
80where he was. They only found his paintings in his house. 
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