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AUTUMN STORIES AND POEMS 



She put her mouth down to take a drink of 

 the cool water. 



But some country people who were working 

 on the shore would not let her drink. 



" Why are you so cruel ? Is not water free 

 to all ? Have pity on me ! I am thirsty, aind 

 I only ask a drink of this cool water ! " 



But they waded into the pool, and stirred up 

 the mud with their feet. Then the water was 

 not fit to drink. 



a. Then Latona lifted up her hands to 



A&jJ heaven and prayed, " May they never 

 leave that pool, but pass their lives 

 there ! " 

 And so it happened ! 



The green coats and loose white 

 skirts shrunk up. Their necks 

 grew shorter and shorter. 

 [I m At last their heads were 



joined 

 to their 

 bodies. 



