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Tonight, I will be continuing the story, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 5 read you a story.

Chapter 5 Dulce Domum

The sheep ran huddling together against the hurdles,

blowing out thin nostrils and stamping with delicate forefeet,

their heads thrown back, and a light steam rising from a crowded sheep hem into the frosty air,

as the two animals hastened by in high spirits with much chatter and laughter.

They were returning across country after a long day's outing with Otter,

hunting and exploring on the wide uplands,

where certain streams, tributary to their own river,

had their first small beginnings,

and the shades of the short winter day were closing in on them,

and they still had some distance to go.

Plodding at random across the plow, they had heard the sheep and had made for them, and now,

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