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THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK What a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen! —Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rebeccah Puddle-duck, was perfectly willing to leave the hatching to some one else—"I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty-eight days; and no more have you, Jemima.

THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies! When Benjamin Bunny grew up, he married his Cousin Flopsy.

The Little Red Hen A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere for worms. She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm she would call “Chuck-chuck-chuck!” to her chickies. When they were gathered about her, she would distribute choice morsels of her tid-bit.

THE TALE OF MRS. TIGGY-WINKLE ONCE upon a time there was a little girl called Lucie, who lived at a farm called Little-town. She was a good little girl—only she was always losing her pocket- handkerchiefs! One day little Lucie came into the farm-yard crying— oh, she did cry so! "I've lost my pocket-handkin! Three handkins and a pinny!

La torre de los tres pisos mágicos Noa vivía en un pueblo pequeño, rodeado de campos verdes. Le gustaba explorar. Siempre preguntaba "¿por qué?" a todo. Un día, mientras paseaba cerca del río, vio algo entre los árboles. Era una torre alta y vieja. Tenía las ventanas oscuras. Noa nunca la había visto antes. —¿Qué habrá dentro? —dijo en voz baja. La puerta estaba abierta. Noa entró. Dentro hacía calor. Mucho calor. Las paredes del primer piso brillaban en color naranja. En el centro, una bolita de luz flotaba despacio. Era pequeña, redonda y saltaba sin parar. —¡Hola!