Short Stories in English for Beginners

particular
 type of watch.
They say it had 
strange powers
.’
‘Strange powers? What kind of strange powers?’ asked Carl.
‘People said that el Kraken could travel through time.’ Susan turned the
page and continued. ‘It says that the watch helped him time-travel!’
Carl laughed and said, ‘That’s just a 
legend
. A pirate who travelled
through time? And with a watch? That can’t be true!’ Carl laughed.
Just then, there was a noise in the workshop.
‘What was that?’ asked Carl.
‘I don’t know,’ replied Susan. ‘Let’s go and see!’
The two friends went back into the workshop. They looked around. The
watch was gone! ‘Somebody has stolen the watch!’ Carl cried.
‘See? That watch is special. It’s not a normal watch!’ said Susan.
Then Carl noticed something else. The door to the workshop was open.
Suddenly, he heard footsteps outside. Somebody was running down the
street.
Carl looked at Susan and started to run. ‘Let’s go!’ he called back.
Carl and Susan ran out of the workshop. They went towards the beach.
When they reached it, Carl looked down. There were footprints in the 
sand
.
Very deep and large footprints, like those of a very 
stout
man.
Suddenly, Susan stopped. She pointed to a large man in black. He was
running down the beach. ‘Look, Carl! There he is!’ she shouted.
Carl ran after the man and shouted, ‘Hey! Stop! Stop right now!’ The
man 
ignored
 him and kept running. Again Carl 
demanded
, ‘Stop! Stop
right now!’
The man continued to ignore Carl. So Carl ran even faster. At last he
caught up with the man. Carl pushed him and they both fell over onto the
sand.

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The man shouted loudly, ‘You shall let me go! I have done nothing to
you! This is my watch!’
Carl stood up. He took a moment to look at the man. He was quite a
character. His clothes were not modern. They were very 
old-fashioned
.
They were in a style worn hundreds of years ago. He also had a strange
hairstyle. It was one from long ago.
Carl and Susan watched the man. He slowly got up. He cleaned the sand
from his clothes. He had the watch in his right hand. He looked at them