Fable

All summer, Ant carried seeds to her pantry.

On the hottest day of summer, one tree stood in the field.

All autumn, Pip the squirrel worked to have the biggest store in the wood.

In the last week of winter, a young fox came to the wide pond.

In a market town there lived a miller who sold flour by weight.

Two farmers, Brek and Tomas, kept orchards on the same slope.

A young cook named Pia worked in a harbor kitchen beside an old cook named Ruth.

A small brass lantern hung outside a mountain inn.

For many months, a sparrow lived in a garden cage.

A heron returned each season to a narrow stream where minnows flashed beneath reeds.

A young vine curled around a mango tree and climbed rapidly toward the sun.

A crab drew a line in the sand beside its burrow.

A drum led a forest band that played each evening beside the river.

A seed rested beneath garden soil when three warm days arrived.

A caravan gave its loudest bell to the camel that carried medicine, maps, and water.

At the entrance to an old granary stood a painted door.

A young weaverbird watched an elder fasten grass around a branch.

Before the spring feast, Peacock decided that the village well looked too plain.

At dawn, an egret stood beside a pond.

A field mouse stored her seeds in a hollow beside a stream.

In the town granary, a brass Scale and a wooden Scoop worked beside the same bins.

A finch planned to nest in the lowest fork of an orchard tree.

A young moth claimed he could measure the Moon with one flight.

A bell hung beside a bridge in a valley where fog came often.

At the door of a hill-town kitchen hung a brass Bell.

Nilo promised the hill-town dancers a willow whistle before the lantern fair.

Each night, three fireflies guided small animals across a reed bed.

A banyan spread its branches over half the village square.

A potter made two clay cups.

A young fox admired the owl's solemn call.

A raven found a silver button beside the road.

A snail envied the butterflies above the garden.

A porcupine lived beside a bridge whose third plank had begun to split.

A kite had one cloth tail and flew steadily above the field.

A courier felt a pebble enter her sandal at sunrise.

A tortoise carried herbs along a path curving around silver moss.

A gecko saw a bright moth resting beyond a clear wall.