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Title: The Little Red Hen
An Old English Folk Tale

Author: Florence White Williams

Illustrator: Florence White Williams

Release Date: July 1, 2006 [EBook #18735]

Language: English

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THE LITTLE RED HEN

An Old English

Folk Tale

Retold

and

Illustrated

by

FLORENCE WHITE WILLIAMS

The

SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

CHICAGO - AKRON, OHIO - NEW YORK

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

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COPYRIGHT, 1918

BY

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

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The Little Red Hen

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A Little Red Hen lived in a barnyard. She spent almost all of her time
walking about the barnyard in her picketty-pecketty fashion,
scratching everywhere for worms.

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She dearly loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely
necessary to the health of her children. As often as she found a worm
she would call "Chuck-chuck-chuck!" to her chickies.

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When they were gathered about her, she would distribute choice morsels
of her tid-bit. A busy little body was she!

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A cat usually napped lazily in the barn door, not even bothering
herself to scare the rat who ran here and there as he pleased. And as
for the pig who lived in the sty--he did not care what happened so
long as he could eat and grow fa