Name:Jacob the Great
Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. As a result, he had gotten into a
million hobbies and activities, but he never stuck with any of them long enough to get any good.
He begged his mother for months for a guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie, a
girl he liked, but after he finally got one for Christmas, he found out that guitars don't play themselves.
He took a few lessons, but strumming the strings hurt his fingers and he didn't like holding the pick, so
now the five-hundred dollar guitar lives under his bed.
After reading an ad in the back of one of his comic books, Jacob decided that he wanted a Wonder-
Sweeper 5000 metal detector, so that he could find buried pirate treasure. So he mowed lawns all
summer and didn't spend his money on ice-cream like his younger brother, Alex. He saved it all in a
shoe box in his closet.. Then he shoveled driveways all winter, and he didn't spend his money on candy
and chips like his classmates. By the time spring came he had saved $200, and he purchased the
Wonder-Sweeper 5000 metal detector. He beeped it around the park for a while, be he soon found out
that no pirates had ever set sail in his neighborhood, and if they had they didn't leave any treasure. Even
though he found a key ring, forty-seven cents, and all the bottle caps he could throw, he buried the metal
detector in his closest.​