Hello, it's Mr. Jim, and welcome back to Kid Short Stories. Today's story we are going to continue in talking about our three pillars of being on the spy team.

Well, today's story comes to us from Ada and Macy.

They are going to teach us how important self-control is.

Self-control is one of our pillars of being a spy, so listen close.

Are you ready for today's adventure?

Me too! Let's go! Aida and Maisie lived in a very special place.

They lived next to this almost magical looking forest.

It was full of all the most amazing plants all kinds of plants for different reasons like

Plants you could eat like what when you think of a plant that you could eat what comes to mind? Apple trees maybe? Yep there's apple trees in

the forest. Anything else maybe some strawberries or blueberries or oh, there's so many delicious plants and all of them were in this forest.

And there was also plants for medicine.

Did you know that plants have been medicine? plants for a a very, very long time.

Yeah, there's some kinds of plants that you might eat to help your tummy feel better or to help you sleep better or there's

all kinds of different things that live in this forest in Ada and Macy's backyard.

Well today they were going on a scavenger hunt.

They had a whole list of plants that they needed to find and they were almost all done.

Macy... to find and they were almost all done.

Macy, uh, I just need some peppermint leaves.

Do you see any over there?

Uh, I don't, Ada.

Nothing over here.

I knew that there were some. Where did they go?

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