In China there was a girl who needed shoes. So she made clay in the shape of her foot. But she got clay in her toes!

So she had a different idea. She got a lot of paper stacked up, and she rubber banded it to her foot. But the rubber band hurt her foot.

One day her grandfather brought home some silkworms. She carefully unwrapped the cocoons. She found that she got silk thread. She made silk shoes. But they were too tight.

She noticed a little basket with American shoes floating in the river. They were tennis shoes. To her it looked like there was string and holes all over the top. She had never seen such a thing. She didn't know how to tie them.

An American boy came across the river, and said, "Hello!"
He helped her with her shoes. To the Chinese girl the shoes felt GREAT.

She grew up. She sells shoes in her OWN company. Tennis shoes! Now she lives in a big house in the corner of the whole piece of China. Every hour she changes shoes. Whoever is real poor, sad and dirty gets a free pair of shoes!

The end.