READING 2 OF 23 focus words
The fruit table
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The hens had eaten so much of the first crop that the recorded yield was only nine melons. The children's zest for guarding the next crop faded after an hour in the sun.
One child found the kernel of a better plan. Move the hens, she suggested, and let the melons look after themselves.
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