oey’s Shoebox Melodies

ome time ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

The Baron’s fiancée, Lady Angela of Alpine Castle, had a friend whose twenty year old son had been collecting scraps of music and keeping them in shoe boxes in his room. Lady Angela’s friend said that her son Joey’s room, with all the shoeboxes, looked like a shoe store.

Then one night when everyone was away, all the shoeboxes disappeared. They all seemed to have just vanished.

The following morning the investigating detective could not find a clue as to the thief’s identity. He did say it looked like a professional thief.

Then three days later a policeman came to Joey’s house with all the stolen shoeboxes in his car. The shoeboxes were left at the police station with a note from the crook. The note said that he wanted to steal shoes, not empty boxes filled with only scraps of music. “You may have them all back,” the crook concluded.

Professor Hamblin and the Baron heard of the unusual situation and invited Joey to meet with the Lilliland Orchestra director. The director asked if he could assemble all these small, melodic scraps of paper into a symphony. Joey agreed and after a time the orchestra was ready to play Joey’s work.

The orchestra director and the musicians all agreed that Joey had a lot of musical talent.