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Hello! How's everyone doing? I hope everyone's safe and I hope everyone's doing very well.

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So today I'm going to read a short story for you called Fur and Feathers and I really hope

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you'll enjoy it. So here it goes. Fur and Feathers. The pride and joy of Mama Ostrich

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were her two baby chicks, hatched from her very own eggs. One day, when Mama Ostrich came back home

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from getting food for her two dear chicks, she looked and she looked, but she could not find

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her chicks anywhere. Then, oh my, what did she see but lion tracks on the ground? And right next to

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those tracks were her two-footed chicks' tracks. Sore with fear, Mama Ostrich knew that she must

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find her babies, and so she followed the lion tracks. The lion tracks led into the woods and

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ended up at a cave. Mama Ostrich stepped up to the opening of the cave and looked in. There were her

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own dear chicks in the arms of Mama Lion. What are you doing with my chicks? cried Mama Ostrich.

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Give them back to me at once. What do you mean your chicks? Mama Lion rose her head and growled.

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These are my cubs. That is plain to see. It's not at all plain to see, said Mama Ostrich.

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those are chicks, ostrich chicks, and I'm an ostrich, and you're a lion. Is that so, Mama Lion

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said with a snarl, then you will have no problem finding any other animal who agrees with you.

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I dare you, find any animal at all that will look me in the eye and tell me that these are not my

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cubs. Do that and I will give them back to you. Mama lion raised her big lion head and roared a

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wild roar. Mama ostrich ran quickly off to the woods. She must tell each and every animal that

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she was calling a meeting to talk about this terrible crime. When she came to the home of

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the mongoose and told him her sad story, mongoose thought and thought. Then he had an idea. He said

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she should go to an anthill that was deep in the woods. This anthill was so high it was taller than

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many animals. She should dig a hole in front of that anthill and she should keep digging until

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the hole came back up behind the anthill. That was a very odd thing to do. Why? asked Mama Ostrich.

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I am very busy. Listen, said Mongoose. He said the hole must come up behind the anthill

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where no one could see it. When she was done digging the hole, she should tell all the

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animals in the woods, and Mama Lion too, to come to that very anthill at sunset. And so Mama Ostrich

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went to the anthill and dug a hole. She went about to tell all the animals to meet her there at

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sunset that very night. When all the animals were at the anthill, she told them how Mama Lion had

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taken away her dear sweet chicks. The zebras and antelopes and all the other animals

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looked at the chicks held by Mama Lion and they nodded. But when Mama Ostrich said she

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needed just one animal to look Mama Lion in the eye and tell her that she was not the mother of

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the chicks, each and every animal in the meeting looked down at the ground. One by one, when each

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animal was asked, each animal said in a soft whisper that the little ones belonged to Mama

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Lion, and there was no question about that. When it came to Mongoose, he cried out,

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Have you ever seen a mama with fur with babies that had feathers? Think of what you're saying.

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Mama lion has fur. The chicks have feathers. They belong to the ostrich. Then Mongoose jumped down

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the hole in front of the anthill. Down, down the hole he went to where it came out the other end,

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and quickly he ran off into the woods before anyone could see him run. Mama Lion tried to

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leap after him when Mongoose had jumped down the hole, but he was too fast. And when Mama Lion

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went after the Mongoose, the two ostrich chicks were freed. Of course, they ran right into their

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mother's open wings. Not knowing about the hole behind the anthill, Mama Lion paced and paced by

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the anthill hill. The other animals at the meeting very slowly and with care stepped away one by one

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and Mama Lion was left waiting at the front of the anthill for a very very long time.

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I hope you guys enjoyed that story okay bye