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The place is Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. The 年 is 1999. On May 11, after months of careful research and planning, ヒイラギ, ホリー Evans launches vegetable seedlings into the sky.


On May 18, the young scientist reports on her experiment. ヒイラギ, ホリー intends to study the effects of extra-terrestrial conditions on vegetable growth and development. She expects the seedlings to stay aloft for several weeks before returning to earth.
Her classmates are speechless.


The 日付 is June 29. Shortly after sunrise, a member of the Billings, Montana, Moose Lodge, hiking through the Rocky Mountains, makes a startling discovery.
Robert Bernabe is in a daze when he returns to camp. All he can say for the 次 several hours is, “TURNIPS!”


All over the country, the skies fill with vegetables.


Cucumbers サークル, 円 Kalamazoo.

Lima beans loom over Levittown.

Artichokes advance on Anchorage.

Parsnips pass によって Providence.


And ブロッコリ, ブロッコリー lands with a big bounce in ヒイラギ, ホリー Evans’s backyard.


In Ottumwa, Iowa, Tony Kramer emerges from his 納屋 and shouts for joy, “At last, the blue ribbon at the state fair is mine!”


によって midafternoon, all vegetables float safely to the ground.


Except for the peppers. For some reason, they need a little help.


TV news channels broadcast twenty-four-hour coverage of the “airborne vegetal event.” カリフラワー carpets California, ほうれん草 blankets Greenwich, and arugula covers Ashtabula.
ヒイラギ, ホリー is puzzled. Arugula is not part of her experiment.


Vegetables become very big business. Peas from Peoria are shipped down the Mississippi to Mobile in exchange for eggplant.


Real estate booms in North Carolina.

Avocados bolster Vermont’s economy.

Potatoland is wisely abandoned.

The Big 林檎, アップル is renamed the Big Rutabaga.


Arugula, eggplant, avocado, and now rutabaga. As the 一覧 of vegetables that ヒイラギ, ホリー did not plant grows longer, she concludes that the giant specimens are not the results of her experiment.
もっと見る curious than disappointed, ヒイラギ, ホリー asks herself, “What happened to my vegetables?
“And whose ブロッコリ, ブロッコリー is in my backyard?”


The place is the ionosphere. On June 29, the Arcturian starcuriser Alula Borealis was touring its sixth planet in four days, and the captain had just pointed out the fjords または Norway off the port side.
In the galley an assistant fry cook accidentally jettisoned the entire 食 supply. As their vegetables drifted toward the small blue planet below, everyone on board had the same thought: Where would their 晩餐, 夕食 come from?
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With a mournful moan and silken tone,
Itself alone comes ONE TROMBONE.
Gliding, sliding, high notes go low;
ONE トロンボーン is playing SOLO.

Next, a TRUMPET comes along,
And sings and stings its swinging song.
It joins TROMBONE, no もっと見る alone,
And ONE and TWO-O, they’re a DUO.

Fine FRENCH HORN, its valves all oiled,
Bright and brassy, loops all coiled,
Golden yellow; joins its fellows.
TWO, now THREE-O, what a TRIO!

Now, a mellow friend, the CELLO,
Neck extended, bows a “hello”;
End pin set upon the floor,
It makes up a QUARTET—that’s FOUR.

And soaring high and moving in,
With ZIN! ZIN! ZIN! a VIOLIN,...
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Long ago,
before the Civil War,
there was an old sailor called Peg Leg Joe
who did what he could to help free the slaves.


Joe had a plan.
He'd use hammer and nail and saw

and work for the master, the man
who owned slaves
on the cotton plantation.


Joe had a plan.
At night when work was done,
he'd teach the slaves a song
that secretly told the way
to freedom.
Just follow the drinking gourd, it said.


When the song was learned
and sung all day,
Peg Leg Joe would slip away
to work for another master
and teach the song again.


One day
a slave called Molly saw her man James
sold to another master.
James would be taken away,...
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One sunny day, a クイーン honeybee leaves her hive. Other bees, called drones, follow her. The クイーン mates with a drone. Now she can lay eggs.


The クイーン flies back to the hive. Laying many eggs in her job. She puts one egg in each cell.


In three days the eggs hatch. Out come larvae. Worker bees feed the larvae.


After five または six days, workers cover the larvae cells. Inside the cell, the larvae grow into a pupa. In about ten days, a young bee comes out of the cells.


Hives have only one queen. Most other bees are workers. Some bees are drones. Workers are females. Drones are males.


Young worker bees...
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Mrs. Davis felt peculiar as she took her morning bath.
“I feel like I’m being watched,” she 発言しました to herself.
And she was being watched…


…by Shirley Rat, the nosiest person in town.
“I see you’re using ライラック bubble bath,” 発言しました Shirley. “I personally prefer rose.”
Mrs. Davis pulled down the shade.

“I 愛 to know what’s going on,” 発言しました Shirley. “I don’t get paid for it—it’s my hobby.”
And Shirley’s hobby kept her very busy.


Reading other people’s mail took half the morning.
“You learn such interesting things,” 発言しました Shirley.

Listening in on private telephone conversations,...
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THE 城 GUARD WITH HIS TRIDENT



How many prongs do あなた see?
I see two on the bottom—but on the top, three

Solution: Cover the 上, ページのトップへ of the trident and あなた see two prongs. Cover the bottom and the trident now has three prongs. あなた can draw this object, but あなた can’t construct it. (impossible-object illusion)


THE ROYAL MESSENGER ARRIVING WITH A LETTER FOR THE KING



The red tape on the letter is longer than the blue. But is this really true? Remember, now あなた are in OPT!

Solution: Angles are sometimes tricky! The red and blue tapes on the envelope are the same length. If あなた remove the...
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He was so small that his mother didn’t know he was there. The other piglets were always pushing and shoving, squealing greedily for food.


But the tiny pig was gentle, quiet, and never greedy. He always kept clean. While the other piglets rolled around in the mud, he would lie under his お気に入り 木, ツリー wishing for wings to carry him into the sky.
One 日 he heard a terrible squeal. A large 雌豚, 種まき, 種をまく had fallen in the road. The little pig crawled under the fence and ran to help her.

He had to push with all his might, but at last he got the 雌豚, 種まき, 種をまく up on her feet again.


The 雌豚, 種まき, 種をまく thanked the little pig and she...
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Every fall, when the leaves start melting into pretty purples and reds and those bright golden shades of pumpkin, Mama says, “Coat time, Gabrielle!”


And they ride two trains to Grandpa’s tailor ショップ in the city. On the Silver Express from Meadowlawn to Pennsylvania Station, Gabby sits close to the window, her nose pressed to the smudge-glass for nearly an hour.


At Penn Station they walk fast, through long, dark passageways and underground tunnels. On a distant speaker someone calls out, “Thirty-fourth Street! Thirty-fourth Street! Change here for the Downtown Express, Uptown Express and...
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My dad, Nino, makes the best ピザ in the world.
I’m his best helper.


I help knead the ピザ dough,

I help stir the ピザ sauce,


and I help grate the cheese.

When the customers are finished, I know how to pick up their plates


and carry out the dirty dishes.

I help give the extra pizzas to hungry people in the alley who have no homes.


And…I help my dad serve our ピザ pies!

People come from all over town to eat at Little Nino’s.
They wait in long lines because our restaurant is so small.


One night a man came to see my dad after the last pizza.
What did he want?

That night my dad told my mom we would...
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Boy: Tell me the story again, Grandfather. Tell me who I am.
Grandfather: I have told あなた many times, Boy. あなた know the story によって heart.
Boy: But it sounds better when あなた tell it, Grandfather.
Grandfather: Then listen carefully. This may be the last telling.
Boy: No, no, Grandfather. There will never be a last time. Promise me that. Promise me.
Grandfather: I promise あなた nothing, Boy. I 愛 you. That is better than a promise.
Boy: And I 愛 you, Grandfather, but tell me the story again. Please.


Grandfather: Once there was a boy child…
Boy: No, Grandfather. Start at the beginning. Start at the beginning....
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Brian found a サンショウウオ, サラマンダー in the woods. It was a little オレンジ サンショウウオ, サラマンダー that crawled through the dried leaves of the forest floor.
The サンショウウオ, サラマンダー was warm and cozy in the boy’s hand. “Come live with me,” Brian said.
He took the サンショウウオ, サラマンダー home.


“Where will he sleep?” his mother asked.
“I will make him a サンショウウオ, サラマンダー ベッド to sleep in. I will cover him with leaves that are fresh and green, and bring moss that looks like little stars to be a 枕 for his head. I will bring crickets to sing him to sleep and bullfrogs to tell him good-night stories.”


“And when he wakes up, where will...
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See the piggy,
See the puddle,
See the muddy little puddle.
See the piggy in the middle
Of the muddy little puddle.
She her dawdle, she her diddle
In the muddy, muddy middle.
See her waddle, plump and little,
In the very merry middle.


See her daddy,
Fuddy-duddy, fuddy-duddy, fuddy-duddy.
“Don’t あなた get all muddy,
Muddy, muddy, muddy, muddy.
You are much too plump and little
To be in the muddy middle.
Mud is squishy, mud is squashy,
Mud is oh so squishy-squashy.
What あなた need is lots of soap.”
But the piggy answered,
“Squishy-squashy, squishy-squashy—NOPE!”


See her mommy,
Fiddle-faddle, fiddle-faddle,...
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