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Yak
Far, far away from anywhere, in the mountains of Tibet, there lived a yak.
Of course he wasn’t really far from anywhere. He was near the snow and the ice and cold wind and wet grass and craggy rocks. All day the wind blew hard and the sun was hidden behind clouds. And the black crows flew about in the air. \es, he was near.all that. But he was far away from the shops and picture-books and ice-creams and the fireside and the cinema and children going to school.
Now the yak hadn’t got a name, so I will just call him г ак.
Well, Yak was very fond of sitting 1 in a fairly quiet part behind some rocks and listening to the* sound
t!!* sea* ГГ.е ,lad found a sea-shell, a lovely* SDiral sea he sea°d h® b<-'!d b'a ear to it, h7 К hear
Goodness knows 1 how it had trot there h.,t th.™ it
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Не didn t know which way to go but he thought “1*11
d* da^LTin the !'S 3 Wl 1 g®‘ 10 the s®a'” Sohe walked
о the sea in i s shell'eL a‘®+ fm<i grass and "s'^ed L “ I 2 , Jsf1,c]| and went to sleep. lie walked all
he next day and the next but still he didn’t come to the ..A" /oand, !?'.m were the mountains. Sometimes he
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,Tbe S!rZa,r was runni"g babbling over stones and if
iskeddhimY-‘Whaitd wondcred what he "'as doing. So it
lak “Oh Ы ™ i« Г® 70U..dT,g?, “I’m listening,” said K. Un, lei me listen too, said the stream Voi/ i1ntj
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ГгМ Г 11 get there ” “Thank yo"’” said *ak> and
. Р«1у the,utrueam grew bi^er until at last it was a broad river with boats sailing on it.1 “It would be nice
sVhe p-nt * b°h i,flstea,d of ha™g to walk,” thought Yak.
So he got in a boat and away they went
™®vb°at had f big fed sail and the wind blew it along v-hile \ak just sat and had a nice rest.
At last they got to the sea-side. It was wonderful. He sat down on the sand and watched the waves. They sounded exactly like they did in his sea-shell.
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He found a cave to sleep in at night Then because it was so hot he went to the barber’s and had his long hair cut short* and after that lie went down I,! ?ea'fhore again and gave the children rides on his fh ltfoI ‘"'opcnce a time. He soon had enough money to buy all the hay and ice-cream he wanted
It was very nice there. He liked the sea-side, but best were ,be 'a*® evenings when it was growing dark and the people had gone home, and Yak sat by himself
Сац® and lislened ‘he sound of the sea and watched the ships passing in the distance and tiie sun set on the horizon; and then, in the dark, the stars'coming out one by one, and the waves lapping on the shore.4
Day’s Eyes'1
Mr. Jones, the joiner, and Grimble, his cat, and his blue parrot, Annie, all lived together in a little house They were very happy. Most of the day while Mr. Jones was away working, Grimble lay on a chair in the kitchen and
dept while Annie swung backwards and forwards on her aerch or looked in her mirror or ate seeds. Sometimes jriniblc woke up and stretched and looked at Annie ileep^'ag- bafkwards and forwards and then went back to
One day Grimble woke up and looked at Annie’s cage,
Jut she wasn t on her perch. She was sitting rather quietly in the corner of her cage and she was covered with little
Icu spots.
“Bless my claws and kittens!”2 said Grimble. “She’s got measles! I’d better3 fetch Mr. Jones home so that he :an go for the doctor.” I
r Butl*. Jones worked in a big factory at the other end of the town and Grimble didn’t know the way there. He гiidn t know what to do. He sat and thought for a moment, men no had an idea. He was a very clever cat. He
thentlawnh‘e Wind°W and j"mped right UP and out on t0
all !нЛа3,а 1оУе1У rooming and the sun was shining and 11 Lhe. da sies *n tne grass were looking at the sky
°™b e wflked ov?r the grass and said to the daisies, NG/uSe'j C0Se your Petals UP like you do at
closed thSe0iral;etalsdupSleS ^ “YeS’ Grimb,e-” al'd "iey As they closed their petals it grew dark fust like it is a night. But it was still day in the next garden And the
saw lhJht neXt d°u°/ garden, looked over the wall and I™. thf У УasAm2M> so it closed its eyes too and grew df r4 ^nd fjie day m all the other gardens saw it was growing dark and, thinking it must be night-time it grew dark as well, till all the town was quite dark. g
The town hall clock2 which had just struck eleven was
Й tLZZr%rand SC.ratchfd 'li? ftead- ‘4I musi be slow!”3 it thought Its evening already.” So it tick-tocked faster
3WhVer nCI*ore in its life and then strnck six o’clock.
\Vhen the manager, at the factory where Mr Jones
bhearVhe t0Wn.uha" clock strike six and, looking out of the window, saw that it was dark. lie thought it was
‘™,® In fh6 m®n g° home' so he sounded the hooter4
and went home®" °PP W°rki"g and put on tl,cir eoats
As soon as Mr. Jones arrived home and saw the red spots on Annie, he went for the doctor.
red^DOtds°Ct°Mm^” t °nC®aWbv h® heard that Annie 1,ad red spots. Mmm! he said. “Yes, just a slight case of
measles, I think. We’ll soon get you better”6
andH«;faheMMr'l|J°ne? SOm^ IPedicine to g‘ve t0 Annie “n„drh d r d M a?,ai1? next day- “Meanwhile,” he said perhaps Grimble will stay and look after her.” “Oh ves ”
sa.d Mr. Jones. ”Hc will. He’s a verv clever cat ”
A few days later Annie was quite'better and sat swing-
thi chalf" Tnerthh 811 day l0,ng and Grimble '«У asleep in had ah dn’nk п/'тчГть8 ^ W°ke up and stre‘ched and
and went oufon the llwm JUmp®d 0ut of the window
gun \oWc!os^r°Hinfgeltar|< aTi! fT® of the daisies had bc-gun 10 Close. He felt glad that Annie was better and sat
onefhasgffrtdhen<tWa- and purred as lhe daisies closed опеЬУ Grimht “ h г У ь TS were closing- “Perhaps,” thought Grimble, that s why they are called day's eyes or daisies.”
Fish and Chips1
bour kc®’ *Ье cormorant- lived on a buoy in Galway Har-
sat in®fhle»w 0П ‘f- at.nig'lt time and in the day-time she
nfoth‘hnt,edg® W,th h7 n?ck stretched out looking down lntc ‘he pale green sea for fish. s
came ud with п'У 7® 5ц® right under fhe wa‘er and afr annP ' thu *P h?r beak- Then she’d throw it up in the r and open her beak wide and catch it right up. P
dinner® 7aV0nd Pf/ish- She had 'hem for breakfast, for of then/ * d for suPPeG and she never grew tired
One day a grouse named Denis was flying over the sea He had been to see» his Granny and was flytnghometo where he lived on the moor.
on the hu/vAn ьГп аПа lookin§ down' saw Alice sitting
pleased ?oysee hto V W" ^ S3‘ b6Sid® Ь®Г’ Sh® 'vas
dav ” н nay-f0.fte.ar She said* 4‘1Г$ fish tea to-
it nice^”1S‘‘NiYp?,1,d Deini-S’ ,IvAei-neVer tasted fish before- Is n nice? Nice! exclaimed Alice. ”Whv there’s nothing
nicer to eat in aii the world than fish ” g
wilh »dcu-® di-',®d of/-(be ЬиоУ in'o the sea and came back with a shiny silver fish and gave it to Denis.
“Lim°kedj Ч/.1, ‘How do Уои eat he asked.
Like this, said Alice and she threw it up in the air
gef уоГапо{Ье/‘опёМ”W* W3i‘ ЬеГе’” Sh® Said> “and ГП
another fi'lh®! ‘ht0 ,tbe, sea again and came back with thif one ” she sMd. ’ " '"еГУ 5Ша" °П® ‘hiS tim®’ “Try
as wide‘SJbheW UmP inath® air and opened his small beak ПН Н ®uCOl da.'?d gUlpr ~Ье swallowed it.
)hat°Mearl H« d!dn t bke it at all. Oh dear, no! “Was hat nice? said Alice. “Yes, thank voti!” said Denis who was very polite. “It was quite nice.”
nni” LaM nlen: 111 ge!,you another one,” said Alice. “No. no! said Denis quickly. “I really can’t stay, thank you
very much all the same.2 Good-byel” And away he flew
When hi6™ l'°me and had a nice sleep in the heather.
And h. > woke4uP the next morning the sun was shining.
Arid he began to think about Alice. “What a clever kind
Saturday ”aS’” He th°Ught' thillk 141 ask her 10 l’ea 0,1
It in°theetowne НвГ 3 'etter inviting her to tea and Posted
ALICE, cormorant.
On the buoy,
Galway Harbour.
Alice was pleased to get the letter and she replied at once saying that she would come. Then she addressed the
letter to
DENIS, grouse.
'Ihe fourth patch of heather to the right,
The moor, near the Golf court,
Galway.
.. . 0n SAa.turday Denis got up early and made everything tidy for Alices visit, and being a very intelligent grouse he knew that cormorants didn’t like corn and berries to eat like birds who lived on the land. He knew what she liked best and flew into the town and brought a big packet of lisii and chips wrapped up in newspaper.
Very soon Alice flew down into the heather and Denis !-:d tea all ready. What a feast! Alice had never had chips before \um yum, yum,” she said. “I like fish and chips much better than just fish. Can I come to tea again?”
“Yes. come every Saturday,” said Denis. And she did.
And they always had fish and chips.
The Little Bus Who Was Afraid of the Dark
Once upon a time there was a little red bus who lived in a garage with his mother and father. Every morning all three of them > were filled with petrol, oil, air and water; and then they carried people backwards and for-
bV; the sea™ VlI'age Where they lived ‘° ‘he big town
dayKb|f and° he^was “very
a story.”dark H‘S m°‘her said> "Ustenl T" tell you
a time,” the mother bus said, “long long
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on0! Tryn, veryOWslowl?e ‘° C°me °U‘ and shin®’ So coIlle
So the dark, which had been hiding2 behind the sun
were6 r°ushfmr here ‘ d0;At0 *bT, s‘rcc‘s and” houscs.b В uses' on^LrUa1 herfe and there- The dark tried to be brave япЛ thCK d°aVp farlbcr- Pba lamps were lit in the streets d“Qh.®iAu dr!vers turned their lights on.
was hanr/nlaA A"1® AT’ and before « knew what Hs hnrrf Wh tS’ bl’S ru.sbed right through it, sounding ь horn. Mhat a surprise! Rather nice. A little ticklv ner-haps, but very pleasant. y’ per
witt.A|her- thiati,? buses rushed through the dark
« lhJhr,rIlghtS Shl!?lng a,ld tbe People inside buying {|fnkc 3 ’ geftmg up and s,“'ng down, having a wonderfu!
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When she had told him this story the little bus said I m ready to go out now, Mother.” And the driver came and started his engine and turned the lights on, the people came in and sat down, the conductor rang the bell and
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