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    Animal Tales: A Collection of Short Stories for Children 6 Years and Up
    Animal Tales: A Collection of Short Stories for Children 6 Years and Up
    Animal Tales: A Collection of Short Stories for Children 6 Years and Up
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    Animal Tales: A Collection of Short Stories for Children 6 Years and Up

    By Janet Leach

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    Animal Tales is a collection of ten character-building stories-just right for Grandma's to read to their grandchildren or for children to read on their own.

    From "Heloise and Sam" a story first told at the By the Sea Storytelling Festival in Conway, SC to "Tug McGraw Comes Home for Christmas", a true story about a dog who runs off and can't find his way back-as told from the dog's (Tug's) point of view, each of these stories has something for every one of all ages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 29, 2001
    ISBN9781469717456
    Animal Tales: A Collection of Short Stories for Children 6 Years and Up
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    Janet Leach

    Janet Leach is known for her heart-warming children's stories which have been published in the The Inlet Image, a branch of the Georgetown Times newspaper, in South Carolina. She loves to write children's stories, and hopes that your children will enjoy her stories in this book.

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      Animal Tales - Janet Leach

      A Collection of Short Stories for Children 6 years and up

      All Rights Reserved © 2001 by Janet Leach

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

      Writers Club Press

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      ISBN: 0-595-17898-7

      ISBN: 978-1-4697-1745-6 (eBook)

      Contents

      HELOISE AND SAM

      MILLIE WREN FINDS A

      HOME

      HERMAN THE DANCEN

      CATERPILLAR

      Bruno the Black Bear Has a

      Bad Day

      EBONY—THE WITCH’S CAT

      TUG MACGRAW COMES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

      LINDSAY BROWN AND THE FROG KING

      THOMAS TURKEY AND DORIS DUCK SURVIVE THANKSGIVING

      HARRY THE HUMMER FINDS HIS TRUE LOVE

      THE SEASICK MERMAID

      Author

      HELOISE AND SAM

      Big Jake looked out over the ocean. The sun danced on the calm water. Except for a few small waves, nothing moved.

      Where could she be? It was time for her to come, time for turtles to nest. Perhaps he had missed her. It had been some time since he had taken his small boat from the island to Charleston for supplies. It had taken longer than he had thought it would. He had just gotten back.

      Darned old chickens!’ he thought, as he glanced up at his hen house. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have left. Chickens need feed, and I sure don’t know what you could find to eat here. I live off the sea. My garden gives me fruit and vegetables. Well, chickens don’t eat fish or carrots, do they?"

      Big Jake lived in a small shack on the island for more years than he could count. He loved the peace and quiet he found here. Once or twice a year he would go to civilization, as Aunt Mary called it, for his supplies and a short visit with her.

      You must be one crazy old man, Aunt Mary always said, living out there all alone. What if you were to take sick? No one would know.

      The Ranger knows I’m there, Jake told her. He looks in on me now and then. The Coast Guard does too.

      Jake thought quickly, trying to find a reason to leave before the usual question and answer period began.

      I have to get home before dark, Auntie, he said. I don’t see too well after dark.

      And now, at home, he looked for signs or tracks in the sand. There were none. How could he miss a huge, lumbering body pulling up on shore? Perhaps she had come and gone sooner than she normally did. Jake knew better. He knew how long the journey took her. He could see nothing in the sand. No sand mounds, nothing.

      Ah, well. I’ll wait, Jake thought. She’ll come. She always comes. I just have to be patient.

      The old rocker on his porch creaked as he sat down. He would just have to wait.

      MEANWHILE-many miles away from Jake’s island.

      The small puppy tried to squeeze under the lady’s beach chair. He hated all this! His little body was wet and full of sand. The salt water made him itch. He just hoped the man was satisfied!

      Really, Jack, the woman went on, he’s only a puppy and he’s frightened.

      I don’t care if he is! the man said. Swimming is a dog’s nature and I’ll not have a dog who’s a coward.

      The man stood up and brushed some sand off his legs. He dragged the puppy from under the chair and started out again toward the great, white waves lapping the beach.

      The great thing the man called the ocean seemed to the dog to be angrier now than it was the last time the man had dragged him in there. The waves rushed to meet them.

      The man walked further and further into the waves. The spray of water hit his face as he walked.

      The man walked onto a sand bar, but he didn’t realize it until suddenly the land dropped out from under his feet and he went down.. His arms flailed as he fell forward. The puppy was thrown from him.

      The man reached out desperately to grab the puppy. Another huge wave crashed down, leaving the man coughing and sputtering, scrambling for his survival.

      The puppy knew he was in big trouble. He couldn’t keep his body on top of the water. No hand reached out to him. He didn’t know what to do! He didn’t know how to swim! He was sinking!

      Mama! Save me! he whimpered.

      Time passed slowly. He waited for the man to help him. No one came, he knew he was drowning. Gone.

      Suddenly he felt a great upheaval in the water, and a big bump.

      Something was lifting him up, pressing against his soft underbelly. Up, up he went,

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