| “‘I feel the wind,’ cried Ruth, with bright eyes. ‘Dear voice, are you the Wind?’” |
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| “‘Sometimes it seems as if it must be Fairyland all around, only I’m deaf’” |
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| “Ruth, holding Belinda tightly, drew close to the edge of the brook” |
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| “‘How’s that?’ and with a splash a big green and brown frog landed on the stone at her feet” |
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| “‘I am a frog, of course, but my family name is Rana’” |
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| “That nice fat toad in the garden” |
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| “‘I didn’t move, but my tongue did’” |
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| “‘I was soon swimming about with a lot of other tads, slapping tails, and having all kinds of fun’” |
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| “A loud splash and Mr. Rana’s long legs disappeared in the brook” |
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| “‘I’m right over here in the shade’” |
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| “‘The mother spins the cocoon of silk from her own body’” |
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| “‘Why, it’s Daddy Long Legs’” |
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| “‘I made one of these pits and in the funnel end I lay in wait for ants’” |
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| The wise grasshopper |
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| “‘My friends, there are ants and ants’” |
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| “‘Then there are ants who keep slaves’” |
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| “‘Then there are ants who cut pieces from green leaves and carry them as parasols’” |
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| The house of the mound-builder ant |
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| “Vespa Maculata” |
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| The Queen Bee and her bodyguard of drones |
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| “‘Smart children, aren’t they?’ asked some moths” |
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| “‘I am the moon moth, the Luna’” |
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