The Pond

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Ewald Carl. The Pond

CHAPTER I. The Beginning

CHAPTER II. A Man of The World

CHAPTER III. A Mother

CHAPTER IV. The Water-Spider

CHAPTER V. The Bladder-Wort

CHAPTER VI. Summer

CHAPTER VII. The Carp

CHAPTER VIII. The Mussel

CHAPTER IX. The Water-Lily

CHAPTER X. The Cray-Fish's Journey

CHAPTER XI. The Worst Day of

CHAPTER XII. The End

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Little Mrs. Reed-Warbler heaved five deep sighs and, at each sigh, she laid an egg. Then she sat down on the eggs and sighed again.

And the reeds swayed in the balmy wind and the nest swayed and the eggs swayed that lay in the nest and the dear little brown bird that sat on the eggs. Even the husband swayed. For, when one rush sways, the other sways too; and he was sitting on one just beside the nest.

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"You never saw your wife?"

"No, madam. Nor my children either."

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