Grandpa's Story of Little Teddy Freeman

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Grandpa’s Story of Little Teddy begins when little Teddy wants to earn some money to buy a rowboat. His Grandpa needs more leaves to create a compost pile for his garden. His neighbor, Mrs. Alley said she doesn’t much like raking leaves, and besides its man’s work.

Mr. Alley agrees to have little Teddy have a chance to prove he could handle the job. He also has the gunny sacks that Little Teddy needs to bundle the leaves and take them to His grandpa’s house. Little Teddy has a rake to gather the leaves, and a Red Radio Flyer Traveler wagon to haul the leaves to grandpa’s house.

It is grandpa who takes this opportunity; this relationship with his grandson to teach some valuable lessons about life. It’s a simple task to rake leaves, but only a few people enjoy doing it. So the first lesson grandpa wants little Teddy to learn is to find something that people don’t like to do, and do it for them.

-- Edward Freeman