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Mr. Seymour reads Sassafras

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today story is sassafras by Audrey Penn illustrated by Ruth Harper sassafras hid in the hollow of a big oak tree oh I hope no one finds me side the saddle skunk I hope no one is looking sassafras School porcupine by me head into the law and blue do the darkness what you doing in there hiding grey squirrel run across the top of the you don't want to play with me to test for us slipping further into the hollow tree I might well you know make make a bit of a sting screech owl she said hi the others always on the lookout for danger that little skunk smell well we don't mind a squirrel say put the shy little spoon just lowered his head and said nothing when porcupine and gray squirrel walk up to the edge of Willow Pond in the still glassy water he gaze down it is sad reflection it's hard being a skunk he told bullfrog if I had wings like a bird I could fly away every time some give me your call be smelly older stinky older funky old skunk sassafras call the Clear strong voice from behind search for a string around you smell like root beer the wise old skunk just chuckled that's not me said Poppy I'm not sweet  at the brass with a Blog is just my name Papi put on the pieces tasty tree root enjoying sassafras by the pond what are you doing here by yourself poppy s gently your friends are running in the field nothing much side chest press I'm trying not to stink up the woods oh I see poppies coal-black eyes twinkled in the Morning Light about that very same thing when I was a young skunk what is skunk is a skunk we are who we are and were meant to be that stink is part of being a skunk what the Stinger is part of a bee couch quilt sets red that's not true said Poppy bees have the flowers and make sweet honey and it's just that nobody likes well around here so the young skunk it's the stink that nobody likes every animal in the forest has some special way of helping and stay safe explain copy some animals blend in with the forest some animals are big and strong some have teeth or claws puppy look at sassafras with pride porcupines have quills and skunks have smelly old stinky old funky old spray each animal has a different adaptation set an alarm bring stranger stranger quickly quickly it would hide gray squirrel ran to the end of a branch and through acorns into the underbrush porcupine screwing up a tree and ship loose several long spiny quills what was the song The Brave Little back to the noise raised to stick bushy tail straight into the air and sprayed to Yellow streams of skunk oil that should send them running but instead the woods Drew Steele seamstress watch curiously as the underbrush slowly party a grey fox pup new to the forest stepped forward gray fox crinkle for nose at the skunk smell and plus this plants from her tail and rubbed her head with a gray squirrels Acorn hit hit her she sighed I I only wanted to play the slow sad turn in a drooping head she started to walk away please don't Google call sassafras the fox and put a soft gentle pain near Hurst we're so sorry we didn't mean to frighten you but we didn't know who you were I know what Springs gray fox Brighton pretty easy to see like the red fox I don't make loud noises Jennifer is beautiful sin sassafras and Poppy says your gray fur and quite waste helping a blend of the woods and keep you safe all of us have some way of staying safe he probably explained and yelled everyone else have smelly old stinky old funky old spray you know since that's forever as he and his friends LED greyfox towards we we are who we are and that's the way it should be even smelly old stinky old funky old me the end

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