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Mr. and Mrs. Leghorn went for a stroll one afternoon. They had never been
far from home and they soon came into unknown places. But they wandered
on and on, chasing grasshoppers and crickets, and now and then stopping
to scratch for a worm, until they finally came to the bank of a frog pond.
“Look, Mrs. Leghorn,” said Mr. Leghorn, “there’s the ocean, the wide,
blue ocean that we have heard so much about.”
[Illustration]
“Indeed it is,” answered Mrs. Leghorn. “Could you believe we had come so
far!”