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A Flower and the Sun
(Andersen's Fairy Tales)

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(fish、Rabbit×2)
The answer is at the end of the story.

　It was a very, very cold winter.

　Cold snowy wind was blowing, but it was warm and comfortable in the room.
　The room was underneath the ground.
　A flower was asleep there.

　One day, it rained.
　Every drop of the rain went deep into the ground, and shook the root of the flower.

“Wake up, Wake up.”
“Uh, Uh …”
　The root of the flower hardly woke up.
　Meanwhile, spring arrived. There was warm sunlight.
　The warm sunlight came through the ground and reach the root of the flower.

　Little by little, the warm sunlight warmed up the root of the flower.
“Oh, I feel itchy in my body. I want to fully stretch out my arms and legs.”
　The root of the flower woke up and said so.
　Then, it rained again.

　The rain came through the ground and wetted the skin covering the root of the flower. Then, the rain said to the root of the flower.
“Come out. Come out, quick.”
　Now, the warm sunlight came through and warmed up the root of the flower.

“Oh, I cannot stay still any more.”
　The root of the flower said so.
　Before long, a white and whisker-like root hair stuck out of the root.

　Then, a light green bud came out.
　The bud moved toward the sunlight to get as much sunlight as possible.

　At last, the bud came out of the ground.

“Oh, how bright!”

　It was so bright that the bud did not what to do.
　The sun talked to the bud.
“Hello, at last, you came see me.”
　The sun held the bud with gentle, comfortable light.

　Then, gentle breeze came and talked to the bud.

“Nice to see you. At last, you came out.”
　A little bird flew over to the bud and started singing happily.
“♪ Here comes the bud. Here comes the bud. What a lovely bud.”

　The bud felt happy.
“OK, I will grow up more and everyone will be happy.”

　The bud grew up day by day.
　The sun was no longer too bright.
　The bud kept growing up and up.

“Go, go!”
“Carry on, carry on!”
“Keep it up!”
“♪ Coming up, coming up soon.”
　The sun, the rain, the breeze, and the little bird – everyone cheered the bud up.

　At long last, the bud opened in a lovely way and turned into a beautiful flower.
“You made it!”
“Congratulations”
“Yu are so beautiful.”
“♪ The flower blooms, the flower blooms. What a beautiful flower.”
　Everyone admired the flower. The flower was very happy.

　Look, that is the flower blooming in your garden.

The End

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