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StoryTitle("caps", "Little Half Chick") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(75, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once upon a time an old hen had ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "a large brood of chickens. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They were fine chickens. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But one little chick was very odd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had but one leg, and one wing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " and one eye. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So his mother called him \"Half Chick.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half Chick did not mind his mother. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She would call, \"Cluck! Cluck!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Half Chick would run away and hide. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(76, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One day he said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Mother, I am tired of this farm yard. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I am going to see the King.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"It is a long way to the King's palace,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "said his mother. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"You are too little to go alone. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do not go now, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "and some day I will take you.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Half Chick tossed his head and said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I shall go to-day.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hippity-hop, away he went. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon Half Chick came to a brook. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The brook was full of weeds. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It said, \"Please stop and help me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Little Half Chick. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "These weeds are choking me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Please help me take them away.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(77, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Half Chick tossed his head and said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", " \"I have no time to help you. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " I am going to see the King.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hippity-hop, away he went. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon Half Chick came to a fire. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fire was nearly burned out. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It said, \"Please stop and help me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Little Half Chick. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Give me some sticks, or I shall die.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Half Chick tossed his head, and said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", " \"I have no time to help you. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " I am going to see the King.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hippity-hop, away he went. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(78, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon Half Chick came to a large oak-tree. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind was caught in its branches. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Stop and help me, Half Chick,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "said the wind. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I can not get away from these branches. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They are holding me fast. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Please help me to get away.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Half Chick tossed his head and said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", " \"I have no time to help you. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I am going to see the King.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " And hippity-hop, away he went. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(79, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At last Half Chick came ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " to the King's palace. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now I shall see the King,\" said he. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But just then the King's cook saw him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"This is just what I need,\" said the cook. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The King wants chicken soup for dinner.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the cook picked Half Chick up ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "and popped him into a pot of water. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Water, water, please help me,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " cried Half Chick. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I do not like to get wet.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the water said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I was once the brook, Half Chick. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The weeds were choking me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " You would not help me then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "so I can not help you now.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then the fire began to burn. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(80, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Fire, fire, please help me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Do not burn me,\" cried Half Chick. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he hopped from one side of the pot", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", " to the other. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the fire said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", " \"I was dying once, Half Chick, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "and you would not help me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " So I can not help you now.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just then the wind came by. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He caught Half Chick up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "and carried him up into the air. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Thank you, Wind,\" said Half Chick. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Please let me down now.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the wind said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Once I was caught in an oak-tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The branches held me fast. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " I could not get away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "and you would not help me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " So I can not help you now.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(81, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then the wind blew him up", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "to the top of a steeple. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There Half Chick stuck fast. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there you can see him to this day. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He stands on his one leg, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " and he looks at the wind ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "out of his one eye. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Spanish Folk Tale") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>