Mel found a wallet on her way back home. She picked it up and looked inside. Five hundred dollars! Mel thought about the bike she wanted. She had asked her room for one, which would cost 460 dollars, but her morn said they had no money. Mel looked around. No one had seen her with the wallet.
When she got home, she put the wallet in her treasure box. How could she tell her parents about it? Then Mel remembered the prize of the science competition was five hundred dollars. She would tell her parents she had won it.
The next day, Mel rushed home. She was just about to tell her mother the good news when her mother said, "I have enough money left for this week. I've bought some strawberries. You can have one, honey. "
Mel rushed to her own room. "What would happen if my mother lost the wallet and someone kept it? Then we might not have any food for weeks!" Mel thought to herself.
She opened the treasure box and took the wallet to her mother.
"I found this," she said. "Five hundred dollars is in it."
Her mother looked inside the wallet. "It could be Mrs. Maka's," she said. "We'll have to take it to her right now."
Mrs. Maka was very pleased to get her lost wallet back. After that, Mel and Mrs. Maka became good friends. Mel helped Mrs. Maka make a garden and Mrs. Maka showed Mel how to make clay pots (陶罐).
One day, Mrs. Maka said, "Mel, my clay pot won a prize--1,000 dollars and a red bike! I can't ride it. Would you like it?"
