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Eric Lewis Creative Writing, Period 3 Mr. Carboni 12-2-09    Santa’s Workshop It was the morning of Christmas Eve and all of Santa’s elves at the North Pole were working very hard to make all of the toys. They needed to finish making all of the toys for Christmas, when Santa gave all of the presents to the little boys and girls. They made the toys on a fancy conveyor belt. A giant pump hanging from the ceiling dropped the supplies onto the conveyor belt. Then when the elves finished putting the toys together, the conveyor belt took the toys into Santa’s huge sleigh. It was an excellent way to make toys. Then all of a sudden, something went wrong. The pump stopped giving the elves the supplies. Oh no! Right away an elf hopped on top of the conveyor belt and tried to figure out what made the pump stop dumping out supplies. He looked up through the pump and saw that a bunch of supplies were trying to all come out at once and it clogged the pump. “What should we do guys? The pump is blocked! We can’t make toys!” the elf said. Right away all of the elves gathered around in a circle to try to find out how to fix the pump. The leader elf figured out a really smart idea and told everyone to jump on each others’ back. “We’ll make an elf ladder all the way up to the pump and try to pull all of the supplies out,” the leader elf said. Right then all of the elves got on each others’ backs and made it to the really high pump. The elf that was at the top of the ladder pulled the supplies as hard as he could but the supplies did not budge. Then all of a sudden the elf ladder started swinging back and forth and finally fell. All the elves lay in a big pile. But they did not give up. “What if we turn the pump on extra high and blow the supplies out?” The leader elf said. So the elves tried that. They went into the pump control room, turned the pump on high, and watched as the giant pump tried to push the supplies out. It started shaking very fast and making a loud annoying noise that sounded like a blender. It tried really hard to blow them out but the supplies did not budge. The elves gathered around in circle and started thinking of more ideas, but they couldn’t think of any. All of the elves got sad and started crying. “We ruined Christmas!” one elf said. “All of the god boys and girls won’t get their presents! What are we going to do?” The leader elf said. All of a sudden Santa came out of his office and came down to the elves. “What’s the hold-up, little elves?” Santa asked. “The pump stopped giving us supplies to make the presents. We ruined Christmas!” The leader elf started to cry. “Let me see,” Santa replied. The elves were amazed. Santa was so tall he didn’t need any help getting to the pump. Santa looked into it and saw the problem. “Well, here’s the problem, little elves,” Santa said, “all you need to do is pull the supplies right out.” “But Santa, we already did that,” the leader elf told him. “Let me give it a shot,” Santa assured him. Right then Santa used his mighty strength and pulled every little piece of equipment right out. It was incredible! “Wow, Santa! That was unbelievable. Thank you so much,” the leader elf said, smiling at him. “Anytime, little elves. Now get to work guys. We have a big job to do tonight,” he replied smiling at all of the elves. Immediately the elves got right to work. By the time Santa was ready to leave, all of the elves finished the toys. It was the most exciting Christmas Santa’s little elves ever had.