Week 15 Story

Spongebob and his snail Gary were very poor. One day during the winter Gary grew deathly ill and passed away. Spongebob was devastated. He asked his friends to help him dig a grave, but none of them could becasue they were too busy. He asked his boss Mr. Krabs, but he said he could only help him for money. Spongebob was devastated and needed to bury his beloved pet. He decided he had to take matters into his own hands and bury Gary himself.

So he got a shovel and started digging a hole. Once he had dug a good bit his shovel hit something hard. He uncovered it and it was a treasure chest filled with gold. He took it home with him, and bought enough food to have a feast for himself. After he was good and full he went back to Mr. Krabs to ask for his help with the grave.

When he got there Mr. Krabs said "I thought I already told you if you don't have any money I'm not helping you."

This time though Spongebob did have money. He gave Mr. Krabs a gold coin. Mr. Krabs agreed to help bury his precious snail. After the funeral Spongebob invited Mr. Krabs to his house. Mr. Krabs asked Spongebob how he got the money. He asked if he robbed Squidward. Spongebob told him that he found a treasure chest when he was digging a grave.

Mr. Krabs was incredibly jealous. He went home to his daughter Pearl and devised a plan. He had her make him a ghost costume, and she fastened it on him so it wouldn't slip or fall off. Then in the dead of night he went to Spongebob's house.

He knocked on the window, and Spongebob asked who's there. Mr. Krabs told him he was a ghost and he was going to haunt him unless he handed over the treasure he had found. Spongbob thought about it, and becasue he used to be poor he decided he would be fine without the treasure. He gave it all to Mr. Krabs.

Mr. Krabs returned home and had Pearl take off his costume. But when she tried to take it off she couldn't. The adhesive she had used was permanent. Mr. Krabs was stuck like this.

The treasure

Author's Note:
The story I read was the Russian short story The Treasure. In the story a man's wife dies and no one will help him bury her. He goes to the pope, but he turns him down because he doesn't have money. He digs the grave himself and finds a pot full of ducats. He enlists the help of the pope, and the pope grows envious when he finds out about the ducats. He kills a goat and has his wife sew it on him. He tells the man he is the devil and he hands the ducats over to him. When he returns home the wife cannot get the goat hide off him.
I changed it to Spongebob to make it a little less dark, but everything else is more or less true to the original.

Bibliography:
Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).