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CONTENTS

CAJUN FOLKTALES UN]T READTR 3

-Introduction" from Cojun Folktoles 7

By J.J. Reneoux t7
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"The Theff of Honey" from Cojun Folktoles
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By J.J. Renoull
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Folktoles from Louisiono-GIossory 37
The Tricksler Tricked.......... .3q

Relold by S E Sch/osser lt

The Tole of Peter Robbit .... t3

By Beofrix Poller

Culture

The Hore & The Tortoise

The Hore ond The Tor'toise

By Jeon De Lq Fontoine

Vegetoble Jungle

Animol Fqcts.

BICAUSE OF WINN_DIXIE UNIT READER ... Llq

Excerpt f rom "On Wrif ing' q2

By Kot'e DiComillo 57
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TRIASURE ISLAND UNIT READER 67
The Doy the ltzlono Liso Wos Stolen.......
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By Craig Rolond
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Kids Wer e 0nboord the Titqnic, Too....
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By htlorylou Tousignonl

Fomily Treosures

By Pamela Joyce Rondolph

Collection of Quotes obout Treosure

Tneosur e

Goldl

By Thomos Hood

The People

LOUIS]ANA PURCHASE UNIT READER 87
Stopping by Woods on o Snowy Evening
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By Roberl Frosl
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The Louisiono Purchose ond the q1
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Forced Removol of Nqtive Americons
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Robert Frost Foct Cqrd
How Hoili Soved The United Stotes

Photogroph of o Group of 0soge lVen

Ac knowledgme nts



Colun Folktoles

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" Introd uction " from Cojun

Folktoles

JJBy Reneoux

In the eorly l75Os the f irst Acodtons begon to

orrive in Fr ench Louisiono ofter their trogic

forced migrotion from whot is now Ile de Prince

Edwor d, New Brunswick, ond Novo Scotio, Conodo

They brought with them only tools, clothing,

cooking pots-their borest possessions. But

in or'der to survive in this stronge lond, they

would need more thon .1ust procticol things. The
Acodions, better known os Cojuns, olso brought

with them o deep foith in le Bon Dleu ond o

1rich heritoge of songs ond stories.

Their new home presented greot

chollenges. They hod to od.lust f+
to o subtropicol climofe, o diet
of stronge plonts ond onimols, {
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the fronfier. They encounfered foreign customs
ond peculior superstltions. Even their longuoge

wqs chqllenged. Here wos o whole style, beliefs-
experiences ond concepf s for which their own

longuoge hod no equivolent.

The Cojun people hod withstood persecution, the

loss of their homelond, hunger, diseose, ond the
deoths ond seporotion of fomily ond friends. But
llke the tree thot bends with the wind thot would
breqk it, they odopted with spirit ond ingenuify.
The old woys thot were still usef ul they kept;
those thot were not they obondoned in fovor of
new woys of working ond livlng, bornowing freely
from fhe crofts ond longuoges of the Afnicon,
Indion, Sponish, ond Anglo people thot populoted

coloniol Louisiono. They evenfuolly leor ned how

to squeeze o living f rom the swomps, boyous,
ond proiries, ond how to get olong wlth snokes,

mosquitoes, heot, ond hurr icones.

In time, Cojuns modified their own s tories to

suit their odopted homelond. Kings u---r

I come to live on boyous; pnincesses I I I

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Africqn motifs groduolly blended into the Cojun lD a
melting pot; comic onimol chorqcter s like the
trickster Lopin ond his dull-witted componion t
Bouqui wrestled over humon-like problems,

bringing loughter to the Coluns'hord lives.

Influences from Indion ond Sponish cultures
qdded vocobulory, superstitions, ond themes to

Cojun folklore. The encounter with onglo cultur e

olmost olwoys produced humorous results os in

the misodventures of /es Americoins or newly

onr ived Europer:ns (especiolly Irishmen) os they

tried to survive the boffling lond of Louisiono.
All of these elemenfs combined with Cojun

troditions, creottng o gumbo of folklore thot is

unique in Americon culfure.

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"The Theft of Honey" f rom

Co a un Folktoles

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By JJ Renoult

lVost Cqun people love to lell;okes ond ploy pronks. If fheloke

bockfires, so much the betteri the trickster usuolly loughs horder thon
onyone else. It's no surprise thot these trickster toles hove troditionolly
been omong Cqun people's fovorite sfor^ies. This tole is Africon in origin
but universol in its humor ond insight.

Lopin wos the smortest critter in oll of Louisiono.

Thot robbit wos such o smooth folkin'roscol I

thot could chorm the whiskers off o cot ond sell

bocon fo o pig. Lopin wos trouble for true, ond he
just loved to ploy his tricks on oll the other

onimols, especiolly his neighbor,

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just ploin greedy. He wouldn't shore nothin'with

nobody nowoy. But if he thought somebody else

wos getting more thon him-ooowheee! How he'd

moon ond groonl

0ne doy it hoppened thot Bouqui ond Lopin wene

wolking together to the sugor cone field. Lopin

fook olong some cornbreod ond cone sir'op to

eot for his dinner. Bouqui brought some fine
light biscuits ond o bi9lug of honey. Pretty soon,

Bouqui sforts brogging obout his honey.

"Poor Lopin," he soys, "oll you gonno hove for

dinner is some ol' cone sirop ond cornbr eod. But

me, f'm gonno eot ltke o king. Just look of this

big ol' jug o'sweet golden honey. It sur e is gonno

toste good!"

Lopin looks of Bouqui with o little twinkle in his
eyes. "Well," he soys, "why don'l you just shore
some o' thot good honey wl+h your ol' f riend,

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Bouqui storfs fussin'. "Whot you tolkin' oboul, t

Lopin? Nol f'm not going fo shqre with you. f

brought this honey. If you wont some, go get your \ I

town jug. This is my honey ond you ore not gonno I

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Lopinjust grins neql big ond soys to himself,
"We'll..1ust see'bout thot, mon podnot."

Befor e they come to the cone field, Bouqui
stopped ond set hls honeyjug on the ground
under o greot big live ook tree.'There now," soys

Bouqui, "my honey'll keep nice ond cool here in the

shode-it'll be outto sight ond oulto mind. Lopin,
you;ust forget obout gettin' ony o' this honey,

you heor'?"

Well Lopin didn't soy o wor d. He just went off to

the field, whistling os he wolked. They worked

o spell in the rows of cone under the hot-hot
sun. After o while Lopin stqrted thtnking obout
thqt sweet honey. His slomoch got to growling,
begging jusf for one little toste. Suddenly Lopin

hod on ideo. He bolted right up, his eors searching
the oir qnd his nose jusf o twitchin'.

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'Bouqui!'he hollers.'Do you heor? N/y wife is

collin'me home. f hove o new godchild!'

Bouqui hollers bock, "I didn'1 heqr nothin'!'

"0f course not, mon oml, your eors ore too shor t.

Buf my long eors heor my wife collin','Lopin!

Come home quickl'So I gotto run home ond help

nqme the new bebe.'

With thqt, Lopin doshed ocross the field towor ds
his house. But no sooner wos he out of sight thon
he quielly circled bock to the live ook free. He

picks up the jug of honey ond gulp, gulp, gulp-o

third of the honey is gone.

"Aoohhhl Bouqui wos right,'he soys with o lough.

'This is good honey fon true."

Lopin puf the jug down, wiped his mouth, ond
returned to the field where Bouqui wos still

wor king.

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Lopin gr ins ond yells bock, "An ol'fomily nome.
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The two crifters wor ked on in the heot of thqt
hot, dry doy. After o while, Lopin's stomoch oa o
stor ted tolking to him ogotn, growling for some
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more honey. So thot robbit jumps up, his eors

listening ond his big feet thumping.

"Whot is it now?'hollers Bouqui

Lopin hollers bock, "Do you not heor the news?

N/y wife is collin'me,'Come home, Lopin, you hove

onother godchildl'I om o porroin. I musl do my

duty ond help nome l6e bebe."

Before Bouqui could comploin thot he hodn't
heor^d o thing, Lopin wos bounding from the field

towords his house.0nce ogoin he secretly clrcled
bqck to the ook tree. Lopin picks up thejug of

honey ond gulp, grlp, gulp-the jug is holf-empty.

"Oohwhee! I do believe lhis honey tostes better

the second time oroundl' Thot roscol robbif
smocked his lips ond snuck bock to the cone field.

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Bouqui yells out, "Whqt yo'll gonno nome this
bebe?'

Lopin chuckles ond yells bock, "Another ol'fomil v
nome. We're gonno coll this child Hqlf-Done.'

Lopin went bock to work, but before long his

stomoch wos pleoding for;ust one more toste of

honey. He jumps up, oll eors ond twitching nose.

He hollers out, "Bouquil It's o mirocle. I heor my

wife collin' me, 'Lopin! Come home quick! You hove
onother godchildl'I must run home quick-quick
ond help nome fhe bebe!'

Bouqui listened ond hollered bock, "f don't heor

not h in'!"

But Lopin wos olreody rocing ocross the fleld
towor ds his house. Agoin he slyly circled bock to

f he ook tr ee. He picks up the jug of honey-gulp,
gulp, gulp-the jug is empty.

I 'Aoohhh!" sighs Lopin. "Bouqui wos ,' I
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turned the empty jug upside down ond set it

bock on the dry ground. He went bock to the field t t\at
feeling full ond sotisfied.
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Bouqui shouts, "Whof yo'll gonno coll this
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g odch ild?'

Lopin shokes with loughter ond shouts bock,
0ohwheel We gonno coll this beba onother ol'

fomily nome-All Gone.'

Well, Bouqui ond Lopin worked on o while longer

fill the sun wos high in the sky ond it wos time to

eost.

Bouqui hollers, "Dinner time! I qm so hungry! N/on,

thot honey is sure gonno toste good."

The two critters wolked ocr oss the f ield to the

ook tree. When Bouqui found hts honeyjug turned
upside down ond empty, he storted twitchin'qnd

whinin'.

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"N/y honey ft's qll gone. Somebody ote oll my
honeyl Somebody-Lopin! It must be you!'

But Lopin only looked hur t ond surprised. " l\lon

oml, how con you soy such o thing?'he osks. "Did

you see me neor your- honey? Didn't you see me

run to my house? Ah, my friend, surely you who
qre so much smorter thon me ond con see whot
hoppened. Jusf look qt thotSug turned upside

down ond empty on thot hot, dry-dry ground.

Just look how the ground is so dry ond crocked

ond thir sty.'

'Whot?" osks Bouqui in ostonishment. "You meon

the gr ound dronk oll my honey? Yes, I see it now

The ground stole my honey! 0oohhh!"

'Ah, m on omi," soys Lopin, nodding his heod, "you

hove f igured it out. You ore so smort-smort!

Poor Bouqui, now you hove nothin'to eof with

your biscuits. I tell you whot I'm gonno do. I will

shore my slrop with you, ond you con shore your

biscuits with me, eh? And moybe next . \ \
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Bouqui glodly took Lopin up on his offer. After I*
they ole their dinnen, they both stretched out in
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the shode ond took q nop. Bouqui lwitched ond
trembled in his sleep, but Lopin slepi like o bebe
ond hod sweet dreqms-sweet os honey.

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Folktoles from
Louisiono-GIossory

Animol Tole, A fontosy story populoted principolly
or entirely by onimols thot ploy stereotyped roles
representing certoin humon troits. In Louisiqno, most
Europeon-Americon onimol toles toke the form of
fobles, while most Africon-Amenicon ond Notive
Amer-icon onimol toles feoture tricksters such os

Bren Robbit.

Bouki, Der ived fr om the Wolof world for "Hyeno."

Chorocter common in Louisiono French onimol toles;

he usuolly oppeors os the dupe of the trickster

Lopin [eoUUi+].

Cojun' Distinctive South Louisiono

French cultune whtch hos developed

from the blending of Acodion f *
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French coming fr om Fronce ond Hoiti, Sponish, Br-itish,
ond Germons in the lote lBB0s.

Creole' Term used differently in severol confexts
in Louisiono. In o brood sense, it con r^efen to
the blending of Fr-ench, Sponish, ond sometimes

Africon/Coribbeon cultures in coloniol Louisiono.

Con specificolly refer to the Fr ench-Sponish or the
French-Sponish-Afr icon cultur^es of New Orleons.
Block Creole refers to the Africon-French culture in
rurol southwest Louisiono. The Cr eole longuoge is o
blending of French ond Africon-Coribbeon influences

ond is spoken predominotely by block Creoles.

Folklife, Troditions possed down informolly over

time within o group. The tnodition wos not leorned

by formol educotion or from populor culture

through mogozines, books, or the medio. Folklife

includes folklore, folk or-t, beliefs ond rituols, crofts,

music, ond occupotions. The group moy be o fomily,

neighborhood, ethnic occupotionol, or religious

group, on o region. See the Louisiono Folklife Pr-ogrom

website for mor-e informotion, os well qs

the vir tuol exhibit The Creole Stote, An ,"----ta \

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Folktole Troditionol stories

Lopin, Fr-ench for - Robbit,' o sf ock chor octer of \ t

Creole ond Cojun onimol toles, whose per sonolity ond a t

odventur-es nesemble those of the Africon Americon a
frickster figure, Br-er Robbit. Tta

Trickster tole, A tole (most often, on onimol tole)
in which the moin chorocter (e.g., Br er Robbit)
constontly tries to oulsmor-t or outwit other
chor'octer's (e g., Brer Beor, Brer Fox).

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The Trickster Tricked

A Notive Americon Legend
(Creek/N,4uscogee Tribe)

Retold by S E. Schlosser

Robblt ond Terropin met neor the streom one

morning. ft wos o lovely cleor doy, ond they both

bosked in the worm sunshine ond swopped some

stories. Robbit storted boosting thot he wos the
fostest runner in the world. Ter ropin wosn't
hoving ony of thotl No sirl

"f bet I con beot you in o roce," Tenropin soid to

Robbit. Robbrt loughed ond loughed of the ideo.

nYou crowl so slow you hor dly look

like you ore moving,'Robbit soid. +
"You'll never beot mel"

Terropin wos mod now. "I will I *
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soid he. "I will weor o white feother on my heod
so you con see me in the toll gross. We will run

over four hills, ond the first one to reoch the

sfoke of the top of the fourlh hill will be the

wtnner. )l

Robblf loughed ogoin ond soid, "Thot will be me! I

will see you +omorrow for the r oce!' Then Robbit
hopped off, still chuckling io himself.

Terropin wos in o bind now. He knew he could

not run fosfer thon Robbit. But he hod qn ideo.
He gothered oll of his fomily ond told them thot
their honor wos of stoke. When they heord obouf
fhe rqce, fhe other turtles ogreed to help him.

Ter ropin gove eoch of his fomily members o

white feother, ond ploced them of vorious stoges

olong the route of the roce. The f irst wos ot

the fop of the fir st hill, the second in the volley,

the fhir d of the top of the second hill, ond so on.

Then Ter ropin ploced himself of the top of the

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The next morning, Robbii come down fo the -J *.
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go!" soid the Robbit ond he ron up ond up the

first hill. The Terropin with the white feqther ta
storted crowling olong behind him. As soon os t

Robbit wos out of sight, he disoppeored into the

bushes.

As Robbit reoched the top of the ftrst htll, he

sow oheod of him Terropin wifh his white feother

crowling os fosf os it could go down info the

volley. Robbit was omozed. He pul on o burst of

speed ond possed the Terropin with the white
feother. As soon qs Robbit hod his bock turned,

the second Terropin took off the whtte feother

ond crowled inlo the bushes, chuckling to himself.

When Robbit reoched-lhe volley floon, thene wos

Terropin oheod of him ogoin, crowling up the

second hill with his whife feother. Robbtt ron ond
rqn, leoving Terropin for- behind him. But every
time he reoched o hilltop or o volley, there wos
Terropin ogoin with his whife feofher, crowling

olong os fost qs he could gol

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Robbit wos gosping for breoth when he reqched

the bottom of the third volley. He hqd possed
Ter ropin yet ogoin of the top of the thind hill,
but here wos thot roscolly turtle oppeoring on
the rocetrock oheod of him, crowling os fost os
he could go up the slope of the fourth hill.

Robbit wos deter mined to win the roce, so he
plucked up the lost few ounces of his str'ength
ond sprinted up the hill, possing the Ter r opin with
the white feother . He wos neorly therel Robbit
rounded the lost corner ond brqked to o holt in
ostonishment. Sltting by the stoke, woving his
white feother proudly, wos Terropin. He hod won
the rocel

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The Tole of Peter Rqbbit

By Beotrix Potter

Once upon o time there were four little Robbits,
ond their nqmes were-Flopsy,

It/opsy,

C otlon-to il,

ond Peter

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They lived wtth their N/ofher in o

sond-bonk, underneofh the root of {

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Robbit one monning, "you moy t3r*l.4>a a

rl*'go into the I a o

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fields or down the lone, but don't go into
It/r. [v4cGregor's gonden' your Fother hod on
occident there; d by lt/rs. NzlcGregor.'

"Now nun olong, ond don't gel into mischief. I om

ooino ou +

Then old It/r's. Robbtt took o boskef qnd her
umbrello, qnd went through the wood to the

boker's. She bought o loof of br own breod ond
five curront buns.

Flopsy, Nzlopsy, ond

Cotton-toil, who were

good litfle bunnies, went

down the lone to gother

blockber ries;

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Fir'st he ote some lettuces ond some
French beqns; ond then he ote some

rodishes; \ I

And then, feeling rother sick, he went to look for I t

some porsley &
Tta

But round the end of o cucumber frome, whom

should he meet but tt/r. N/cGregorl

N/r. N/cGr egon wos on his honds ond knees

plonting out young ccrbboges, but he;umped up

ond ron ofter Peter, woving o roke ond colling out,

"Stop thief.'

Peter wos most dreodfully frightened; he rushed
oll over the gor den, fon he hod forgotten the woy
bock to the gote.

He lost one of his shoes omong the cobboges, ond

the other shoe omongst the pototoes.

After losing them, he ron on four legs ond went

fosf er, so lhot I think he might hove got owoy
oltogether if he hod not unfortunqtely run into

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o gooseberry ne+, ond got

cought by the lorge butfons

on his jocket. It wos o blue

jocket with bross buttons,

quite new.

Peter gove himself up for

lost, ond shed big teors; but
his sobs wene overheond by some friendly
sporrows, who flew to him in greot excitement,
ond implored him to exert himself.

N/r'. lVcGregor come up with

o sieve, which he intended to

pop upon the top of Peter; but
Peter wr iggled outjust in time,

I E leoving his 3ocket behind him.

And rushed into the toolshed,

ond Sumped into o cqn. It would

hove been o beoutiful thing to hide in, if it hod not

hod so much woter in it.

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wos somewhere in the toolshed, perhops

hidden underneoth o flower-po+.He begon \ t
to turn them over cor efully, looking under eoch.
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Presently Peter' sneezed- " Kertyschool" T|,.

Nzlr. lVcGregor wos ofler him in no time,

And tried to put his foot

upon Peter, who jumped out

of o window, upsetting three

plonts. The window wos too

smoll for IVr. NrlcGr-egor, ond
he wos tired of running ofter

Peter. He went bock to hls

wor k.

Peter sot down to rest; he wos out of breoth ond
trembling with fright, ond he hod not the leost
ideo which woy to go. Also he wos very domp with
sitting in thot cqn.

Af ter o time he begon to wonder obout, going
Uppity-Uppity-not very fost, ond looking <rll

o rou nd.

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He found o door in q wqll; but it wos locked, ond
ther e wos no room for o fot little nobbit to

squeeze underneoth.

An old mouse wos running in ond out over the
stone doorstep, corrying peos ond beons to her
fomily in the wood. Peter osked her the woy to
the gote, but she hod such o lor ge peo in her

mouth thqt she could not onswer. She only shook
her'heod of him. Peter begon fo cry.

Then he tried to find his woy i
stroight ocross the gorden,
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but he becqme more ond mone ,
puzzled. Presently, he come to II
o pond where l\zlr. N,4cGregor I
filled his woter-cons. A white I
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cot wos sloring of some gold
fish; she sot very, very still, l:--:'-* __--a-"*
but now qnd then the tip of

her toil twitched os if it wer e

olive. Peter thought it best fo

go owoy without speoking to her;

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+.he hos heord qbout cots fr'om his cousin, _c
tHe went bock towor^ds the toolshed, but T

suddenly, quite close fo him, he heord fhe noise

tof o hoe-scr-n-ritch, scrotch, scrofch, scrifch.
little Benjomin Bunny.

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Peter scuftered underneoth the bushes. But

pr esently, os nofhing hoppened, he come out, ond

climbed upon o wheelbonrow, ond peeped over.

The first thing he sow wos N/r. N/cGregor hoeing

onions. His bock wos +urned towords Peter, ond

beyond him wos the gotel

Pefer got down very quiefly off the wheelborrow,

ond storted running os fost os he could go,
olong o stroight wolk behind some block-curront

bushes.

lVr. lt/cGregor cought sighf of him of the corner,

but Peter did not core. He slipped underneoth the

gote, ond wos sqfe of lost in the wood outside

fhe gorden.

N/r. lVcGr egor hung up the little.1ocket ond fhe

shoes for o scorecrow to fr-ighten the blockbir-ds

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r Peier neven stopped running

or looked behind him till he got

',} home to the big f in-tree.

a' He wos so tired thot he

flopped down upon the nice

soft sond on the floor of the

I robblt-hole, ond shut his eyes
His mother wos busy cooking;

she wondered whot he hod done with his clothes.

It wos the second little jocket ond poir of shoes

fhot Peier hod losf in o fortnight!

I om sorry to soy thot Peter wos not very well

dur'ing the evening.

His mother put him to bed, ond mode some

comomile teo; ond she gove o dose of it to Peter!

0ne toble-spoonful to be token qt bedtime.'

But Flopsy, lvlopsy, ond Cotton-toil hod breod ond

milk ond blockberries for supper.

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Culture

Introduction

Cultune is o pottern of behovior shored by o
society or group of people. lt/ony different

things moke up o society's culfure. These things
include food, longuoge, clothing, fools, music,

orfs, customs, beliefs, ond neligion.

The ter m elhnicif y moy be used to describe
the culturol bockground of o person. An ethnic
group is mode up of people who shore the some

ethnicity.

Differences ond Similqrities 4

Every humon society hos its own
culture. Eoch culture is unique

A gr oup's environment often I .i!:

decides the type of culture

thot develops. For exomple, \ r*

o group thot lives in o cold, .a .- o
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moun+oinous region would develop o culture

dif ferent from o group thqt mokes if s home in o
hot, desert region.

Scientisfs who study humon culture ore colled
onthropologists. Anthropologists hove found

thol certoin ports of culture ore universol.
This meons thot oll people oll over the world

shqre these behoviors. All societies hove woys

of deoling wilh relotives, telling good from bod,
moking ort, ploying gomes, choosing leoders, ond
roising children. However, eqch culture does
these things in different woys.

How Culture Chonges

0lder- people poss culture down to younger

people. In this woy o gr oup con keep the some

troditions for mony yeors. Howeven, culture

olso chonges over time. This moy hoppen when

the environment chonges. It olso hoppens when

different groups come into conloct with one

onother. Eoch gnoup br'ings new ideos ,r'----'. I
I thot con couse chonges in the other (
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+.group)s cultur e. Sometimes conf lict hoppens _J

twhen different cultures come into contoct.
Other times fhe contoct is peoceful, ond the \ t
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groups shore their cultur es in positive woys. I I

Eorliest Cullure t I

Cullure begon to develop ofter eorly humons

begon to moke tools. Humons eventuolly

developed customs oround the cr eotion ond

the use of tools. These cusfoms wene eor ly
forms of culture

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The Fl ore & The Tortoise

A Hore wos moking fun of

the Tortoise one doy for

being so slow.

'Do you ever get :t
onywhere?" he osked
with o mocking lough.

"Yes," replied the

Torfoise,'ond I get

ther e sooner thon you

think. I'll run you o roce

ond prove it.'

IThe Hore wos much omused of the
ideo of running o roce with the
Tortoise, but for the fun of the \ t *t

t Ithing he ogreed. So the Fox, who C a

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hod consented 1o ocf osjudge, mqrked the
distonce ond storted the runners off.

The Hore wos soon for oui of sight, ond to moke
the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it

wos for him to try o r'oce with o Hore, he loy

down beside the cour se to toke o nop
until the Tortoise should cotch up.

The Tortoise meonwhile kept going

slowly but sfeodily, ond, qfter o time,

possed the ploce where f he Hore wos
sleeping. But the Hore slept on very peocefully;

ond when of lost he did woke up, the Tortoise wos

neor the gool. The Hore now ron his swiftest, but
he could not overfoke the Tortoise in time.

The roce is nof always to the swifl

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The Hqre qnd The Tortoise

By Jeon De Lo Fontoine

Soid the Tortoise one doy to the Hore,

"I'll run you o roce if you dore.

I'll bet you connot

Ar rive of thof spot

As quickly os f con get there.'

Quoth the Hore, "You ore surely insone

Proy, whot hos offected your broin?
You seem pretty sick.
Coll o doctor' in-quick,
And let him prescribe for- your poin."

"Neven mind," soid the Torfoise. "Let's run! l'

Will you bet me?" "Why, certoinly.' 'Donel' .|!

While the slow Tortoise creeps

Vlr Hore mokes four leops, +
fAnd then loofs oround in the sun.
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ft seemed such o one-sided roce)

To win wqs olmost o disgroce.
So he frolicked obout

Then of lost he set out-

As the Tortoise wqs os neoring the ploce.
Too lotel Though he sped like o dorf,
The Tortoise wos f irst. She wos smort,
"You con surely r'un fqst,"
She remorked. "Yet you're lost.

It is better to get o good stort.'

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Vegetoble Jung!e

Did you know food scientists group vegetobles
bosed on where the vegetoble gr ows on the

plont? Did you know thot corrots ore roots?
Tur nips ond pototoes ore roots too. The roots of
oll plonts gnow undenground ond store food to be

used os energy.

Asporogus ond celery ore stems of plonts. The

stems or e the long skinny ports of the plonf

thot spurt up from the ground. Stems move

the plont's food from one port to qnother. For

exomple, stems move food from leoves to roots

We eot the leoves of plonts oll the time.

Like stems, leoves grow obove the

ground. The green leoves ore

the food foctor les, using energy I

from the sun to moke food for

the plont. *

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Some vegefobles qre the f r uits or f lower s of
the plont. Fruits grow obove gr ound qnd hold the
plont's seeds. Cucumbers qnd tomotoes ore both
vegetobles thot or e f ruits of plonts. Ther e ore
even vegetobles fhot hove tosty flowers. When
you eot couliflower ond broccoli you ore eoting
tiny flowers.

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A nra mo I Fqcts

Pig

Pigs ore stout, bor rel-shoped mommols thot ore
known for thetr big oppettles. Some kinds of pigs

ore wild, while others ore domestic (roised by

humons). Formers noise domestic pigs for their
meol, which is colled pork, ond their fqt, which is
colled lord. The skin of pigs is mqde into leother.

Their stiff hoir is used for brush brislles.

Beor

Beors ore lorge, powerful mommols

reloted to dogs ond roccoons. The I
biggest beors ore the world's

lorgest onimqls thot live on lond I+
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i'0, t rl*' l.types, of beor.ref lr'1i**. iat .1> l t

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They ore the polor beor, the brown beor, the
block beor, ihe Aslotic block beor, the sun beor,
the spectocled beor, ond the sloth beor. The
brown beor is commonly colled the grizzly beor in
North Americo.

Turlle

A turtle is o repfile fhot hos o shell covering its
body. Turtles one known for moving very slowly.

There ore more thon 350 species, or types, of

turtle

Tur tles ore found in most ports of the world.
It/ost live in freshwoter ponds, lokes, or rivers.
0thers live in fhe oceon on on lond. Some turtles
live in forests on even in the desert. Lqnd turfles
or e often colled torfoises.

Wolf

Wolves ore members of the dog fomily. They

qre known for their intelligence ond , t
I couroge. Wolves ore olso noted for i
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