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• Five animals were grazing on
the new lettuce in my garden!
"Mama! Mama!" I called.
"Come see what's in our yard!"
Mama hurried over to the
window and gasped. "Sonia,
those animals are deer,
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• I remember reading a few
months back about an
organization that rescues and
relocates animals that are
stranded or injured. A fox had
been hit by a car but wasn't
badly hurt. This outfit took it in
until it healed and then found a
new home for it far from busy
streets.
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• Are you sure you'll be warm
enough, Sonia?" she asked. "I'
m sure, I said. We sat silently
together, admiring the deer.
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• We've built towns and
highways where there were
once forests and streams.
Now there is very little
habitat left for the deer.
There is no easy
solutionTimeline
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• A few days later, Papa got a
call from Carl. One of the
does had given birth to two
fawns! And Carl had found
a home for all seven deer in
a wooded area northwest of
the city.
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• Camilla was always worried
about what other people
thought of her. Today she
was fretting even more
than usual. It was the first
day of school.
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• “I have no money, but I will
give you this fine gold watch
if you give me enough wool
from your sheep to make a
coat . The farmer said,
“What a good idea! But
you will have to wait until
spring when I shear my
sheep’s winter wool.
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• Anna and her mother took
the bag of wool to an old
woman who had a spinning
wheel. “Anna needs a new
coat , ”Anna’ s mother told
the woman. I have no
money, but I will give you
this beautiful lamp if you
will spin this wool into yarn.
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• I will be happy to weave
your yarn. Come back in two
weeks.” When Anna and her
mother returned, the
weaver gave them a bolt of
beautiful red cloth.
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• Long ago, when the eagles
still build their nests on the
cliffs by the river, an old
man and his grandson stood
beside a large rock. The
rock stood all by itself on
the bluff at the bend in the
river where the bright water
flowed to the bitter sea.