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This story is about some weeds that grow next to a farmer's field.

The weeds are worried about their children and what will become of them.

They ask the rye for advice, but the rye is not very pleasant with his reply, and so the weeds are left to decide on their own.

They ask the breeze for help to spread their seeds, and the breeze agrees, but each of the weeds ask the breeze not to tell the other weeds

that he's helping.

In the spring, we will see if the weeds manage to get their seeds spread or not.

The weeds.

It was a beautiful, fruitful season.

Rain and sunshine came by turns, just as it was best for the corn.

As soon as the farmer began to think that things were rather dry, you might depend upon it

that the next day it would rain.

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