SPRING
Winter has gone. Spring has come.
There is no snow on the ground now.
The days are warm and bright. The sun is high in the sky.
Soon the ground will be green with grass.
There are wild flowers in the woods now.
All the birds have come back from the South.
The robin is here. He is building a nest in the old tree.
Soon there will be some little blue eggs in the nest.
The old owl did not go South. But he is glad that spring has come.
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THE FIVE GOATS
Five goats were in a field.
There they found green grass to eat, and good water to drink.
At night the farmer's boy and his little sister came to drive them home.
One night the goats wanted to stay in the field.
The little girl ran after them. But she could not drive them out.
"Now I will try," said the boy.
So the boy ran after the goats. But they would not go out for him.
Just then a dog came by.
"Let me try," said the dog.
"I have more legs than a boy. I can run faster."
He ran after the goats.
He barked and barked. But the goats would not go out of the field.
Soon a fox came to see what the dog was doing.
"Let me try," he said. "I know more than a dog, and I can run fast."
The fox ran after the goats. But he could not drive them out of the field.
"Let me try," said a horse that was looking on. "I am big and strong."
But the goats would not go out for the horse.
A busy bee came into the field.
"Buzz! buzz!" it said. "I think I can drive them out. Let me try."
"What can you do? You are too little to drive goats," said the boy.
"You are smaller than I am," said the little girl.
"You can not bark," said the dog.
"You don't know much," said the fox.
"You can't run round the field on four feet," said the horse.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!" said the bee.
"We will see; we will see;" and away it flew.
It flew by the big goat's ear.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz!" it said.
The goat looked up. "What is that?" he said; and he ran out of the field.
The little goat looked up. "If you go out, I will go out," he said; and out he ran.
"So will I. So will I. So will I," said the three white goats; and all ran out of the field.
Then the boy and his sister drove the goats home.
"If the bee had not helped us, what could we have done?" they said.
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