. Wood folk at school. og that reached out into the lake. She had XJnk Wunk the Porcupine 123 brought them there to make her task of weaning themmore easy by giving them a taste of lily buds. Whenthey had gathered and eaten all the buds and stemsthat they could reach, she deliberately pushed bothlittle ones into the water. When they attempted toscramble back she pushed them off again, and droppedin beside them and led them to a log farther down theshore, where there were more lily pads. The numerous hollow quills. floated them high inthe water, like so many corks, and they paddled offwrith les
. Wood folk at school. og that reached out into the lake. She had XJnk Wunk the Porcupine 123 brought them there to make her task of weaning themmore easy by giving them a taste of lily buds. Whenthey had gathered and eaten all the buds and stemsthat they could reach, she deliberately pushed bothlittle ones into the water. When they attempted toscramble back she pushed them off again, and droppedin beside them and led them to a log farther down theshore, where there were more lily pads. The numerous hollow quills. floated them high inthe water, like so many corks, and they paddled offwrith less effort than any other young animals that Ihave ever seen in the water. But whether this werea swimming lesson, or a rude direction to shift andbrowse for themselves, is still a question. With theexception of one solitary old genius, who had anastonishing way of amusing himself and scaring allthe other wood folk, this was the only plain bit of fore-thought and sweet reasonableness that I have everfound in a
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