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A Children's Choice* Book Club Edition from Macmillan Book Clubs, Inc.
The Story of
FERDIHAHD
By Miinro Leaf Illustrated by Robert
THE riKIXG PRESS
Copyright
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1938 by
renewed
reserved.
1964 by
Printed
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ISBN: 0-590-75817-9
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Lawson
NEW YORK
Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson. Copyright Munro Leaf and John W. Boyd. All rights U.S.A.
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nee upon a time
in
Spain
there was a
little
bull
name was Ferdinand.
and
his
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All the other
little
bulls he
lived with
would run and jump
and butt
their heads together,
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but not Ferdinand.
He
liked to sit just quietly
smell the flowers.
and
He
had
a favorite spot
out
in
the pasture under a cork tree. It
was
would
his favorite tree sit in
its
and smell the
shade
flowers.
and he all
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Sometimes was
a
mother,
his
who
cow, would worry about
him. She was afraid he would
be lonesome
all
by himself.
"Why don't you with the other skip
run and play
little
bulls
and
and butt your head?" she
would
say.
But Ferdinand would shake his head.
where
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"I
can
like sit
it
better here
just quietly and
smell the flowers."
His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because
she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let
him just
there and be happy.
sit
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As
the years
went by Ferdi-
nand grew and grew
until
was very big and strong.
he
All the other bulls
grown up with him
who had
in the
same
pasture would fight each other all
day.
They would
butt each
other and stick each other with their horns.
most of
all
What they wanted was to be picked
to fight at the bull fights in
Madrid.
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But not Ferdinand liked to
sit
— he
still
just quietly under
the cork tree and smell the flowers.
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One
day
five
men came
in very
funny hats to pick the biggest, fastest,
roughest bull to fight
in the bull fights in
Madrid.
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All the other bulls ran around
snorting and butting, leaping
and jumping so the men would think that they were very very
strong and fierce and pick them.
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Ferdinand knew that they wouldn't pick him and he didn't care. So he
went out
to his favorite cork tree to sit
down.
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He
didn't look where he was
and instead of
sitting
on the nice cool grass
in the
sitting
shade he sat on a bumble bee.
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Well,
If
bee and
you were
a bull sat
a
bumble
on you what
would you do? You would sting him. And that this
is
just what
bee did to Ferdinand.
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Wow! Did it hurt! jumped up with
Ferdinand
a snort.
He
ran around puffing and snorting, butting
and pawing the
ground
he were crazy.
as if
The five men saw him and they all
shouted with joy. Here was
the largest and fiercest bull of all.
Just the one for the bull
fights in
Madrid!
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So they took him away
for the
bull fight day in a cart.
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What a flying,
day
it
was! Flags were
bands were playing
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