One day I saw a chocolate garden on the bank of a river. There were a lot of chocolate trees laden with fruits and flowers made of chocolate too. I called my friends Jimmy and Akbar. We played and enjoyed there.

All of a sudden Jimmy fell into the river. We got worried and cried, “Jimmy, where are you?”

After some time, Jimmy replied, “I am here.”

We saw the river was also of chocolate and Jimmy was lying all covered in chocolate. He invited us to jump into the river too.

When we jumped, we saw a lot of fish made of chocolates. I put a small fish into my mouth. It was very delicious.

After some time we came out of the river. Soon we heard the sound of a train.

The train and the tracks were also made of chocolates. We were very excited. We got into the train and when we looked out from the window, the beautiful landscape was all made of chocolate!

On the next station, we got out of the train. Suddenly, clouds covered the sky and instead of water, chocolate rain fell and in no time we were wet with chocolate! Now we were worried that our mothers would get angry because our clothes were dirty and there was no water to wash ourselves, because the water had also turned into chocolates.

We realised that everything has its importance. Chocolate is good and tasty but it can’t satisfy all our needs. The next morning when I woke up, I saw a chocolate under my pillow. Then I started to wonder if it was really a dream!

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