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today story is just right the story was written by Lilian Moore illustrated by Andrew Watson just old mr. West had a farm there was a pond of the farm and in this Pond there were fish and frogs and turtles is there a Woods on the farm and in the Woodland live Birds small animals in whitetail deer it was a meadow to wear all day long the Grasshoppers crickets and the Crickets chirped farmer West love this Farm but West was getting old set was wife to sell the farm it's too big for me and it's much too much work to do his wife looked at him surprised sell the farm but you were a boy here I know it farmer West and his wife I know it farmer West but Robbie's a man now and Tommy well Tommy will grow up there in the city I must sell the farm West Tyrone for sturdy piece of wood and then he made a sign that said for sale Walker Road one day a car stopped the man in the car said the farmer West I want to buy a farm I see this one's for sale may I look around the farm the man like you like The Big Red Barn white farmhouse light the broad feels in the forest and he stopped everything upside down world a duck King swimming along making an upside-down duck in the pond mirror time is just right to the man I like everything but this Pond I'll have to dry it out write out the pond fingers into the soil I want land for planting to dry up the pond no I will not sell my farm to you many people saw the sign for sale many people came to look at the farm this is just what I've been looking for he stopped and looked at the pond today was sparkling in the Sun I smiled and I started back to the farm house cast the forest the band stopped at the woods look around the Woodland area seem cool and where the this is a fine lot of trees at the Mann yes he touched the bark of a tall oak tree some of these trees are older than I am they aren't I'd like to cut them all down and sell them City farmer West no no I will not sell Farm to you one day a man and his wife saw the sign for sale please stop to all around the farm with farmer where they said they looked at the pond and told how much daylight what do you like everything here the man told the farmer West everything except that big old Meadow I want to take out all that grass and playing just corn for corn take out the metal graph since former West not sell the farm to the man and his wife he sat in the meadow on a tree stump thinking he heard the clear whistle of the Meadowlark you thought about that here in the secret clumps of grass a mother Meadowlark and her nest but no one's ever going to find it thought farmer West she never flies up from The Nest or down to it he always walks to it through the grass begin to rain in Farmer West thought about that the rain fell on the Earth in the rain with soaked into the soil and down into the Grass Roots would run into the air be held there for time after the rainwater would find its way into the well of the farm and Farm tell me a story about the pond in the pond creatures to be said about the woods in the old trees that it's not about how big the farm was and how much work there was to be done when you get back to the farm house he said to his wife I'm going to sell it to the very next one who wants no matter what and I'mma tell my son Robbie the mailbox for sale in the Box car drove off the road and stopped the farm farmer West and his wife Barbara West said no matter what Grandpa Grandpa we're here we're here it's Tommy's right behind Tommy came Robbie and his wife yes we're here said Robbie there was the talk about it seemed they would never be done we want to come back here to live I want Tommy to grow up the way I did to fish in the pond farmer West walk to the road for sale then his wife saw the sign and said oh turn the sign around in his hands he shook his head no and it'll be just right just wait for what farmer West Smiles for you and me a birdhouse the end

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