d around until
I'd eaten it up.

* * *

Once there was a cow and he was in a wagon and he jumped over the
wagon's edge.

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Sesame the Cat

She lived with a nice man, a candy man, and she was at the gate
watching the cattle go by and the men were digging under some
caramel bricks and he called Sesame the Cat and she came banging
and almost jumped on the man's head. She jumped like a merry
balloon. Oh, he got angry!

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STORY BY FIVE-YEAR-OLD

Once there was a fly. And he went out walking on a little boy's
face. He came to a kind of a soft hump. "What is this?" thought the
fly. "Oh, I guess it's the little boy's eye!" Then he came to a lot
of kind of wiggly things that went down with him. "What is this?"
thought the fly. "Oh, I guess it's the little boy's hair!" Then he
slipped and fell into a deep hole. It was the little boy's ear. And
he couldn't get out. He tried and he tried. But he staid there
until the little boy's ear got all sore!

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STORIES BY SIX-YEAR-OLDS

Once upon a time there was a fox and a skunk, and the fox was
walking down the path with a lot of prickly bushes on the side of
the path. Then he saw a skunk coming along. He said, "Will you let
me throw my little bag of perfume on you?" And then she (it was a
lady fox) she backed and backed and backed and backed and backed
and backed, and she backed so far she backed into the bushes, and
she got her skirt torn on the prickly bushes.

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Once upon a time there was a boy and the boy was awfully funny. And
one day the boy went to the store to buy some eggs and he got the
eggs and ran so fast with the eggs home,--he stumbled and broke the
eggs. So he took the eggs, and took the shell and fixed it like the
same egg. And he walked off slowly to his home. And his mother was
going to beat the eggs and she just opened the shell and no egg was
there, and she couldn't make no cake that night.

There is still another kind of story which I believe children of this
transition period and a little older seek and for the most part seek in
vain. These children are beginning to generalize, to marshal their facts
and experiences along lin