. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . over to the river, put it on the water, and it will be myboat, and then when it floats over to the other side of the riverI can get off—and I will be just where I now wish I were. He was glad that he had thought of this. He walked downfrom the blade of gras, crawled up a tree and bit off a big leaffrom the first branch he came to. The leaf was very heavy for him, and he had a hard timedragging it to the river; but at last he got it there. Hecrawled on to it as quickly as he could, and the first thing heknew off his little leaf-boat floate
. The peacock and the wishing-fairy and other stories . over to the river, put it on the water, and it will be myboat, and then when it floats over to the other side of the riverI can get off—and I will be just where I now wish I were. He was glad that he had thought of this. He walked downfrom the blade of gras, crawled up a tree and bit off a big leaffrom the first branch he came to. The leaf was very heavy for him, and he had a hard timedragging it to the river; but at last he got it there. Hecrawled on to it as quickly as he could, and the first thing heknew off his little leaf-boat floated, with him sitting very com-fortably in the middle of it. At first he was afraid of falling off or of being gobbled upby a fish; because fish love to eat caterpillars. He was alsoafraid that some bird might see him and fly above the leaf soas to catch him; because birds also eat caterpillars and wormsand other fat and juicy things. But the fishes couldnt see him. All they could see was abig leaf floating above them on the water, and the birds didnt. THE WISHING-FAIRYS ANIMAL FRIENDS see him, because he was green, and as he was sitting on a greenleaf he looked just the same color as the leaf. The poor little Caterpillar kept watching above for birds inthe sky and below for fish in the water. Oh! he was awfully frightened. After a while when no fishes or birds had bothered him, hewasnt quite so frightened; so he lay on his leaf in the warmsun and looked around at everything he passed; and how heenjoyed it! And he went to sleep! Fast asleep!! All the time he slept the leaf was floating nearer and nearerthe other side of the river, and at last it bumped against theground. It bumped so hard that the Caterpillar woke up witha start and fell off on the earth alongside the river. Goodness, gracious! I wonder what has happened andwhere I can be, he said to himself, but in a moment, when hewas wide awake, he suddenly remembered everything, andlooked all around to see where he was. And
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