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A hippopotamus stays in the water most of the day. It looks threatening when it opens its big mouth and shows its tusks. Sometimes a hippo sinks down into the water almost out of sight. Large animals like these often avoid fighting by showing off. Hippos' eat little fish and plants. These large animals live in africa and moslty very high temperature climates.
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- Actress - A man or woman who acts like someone else but themselves
- Pich Hitter - A Baseball term for a person who bats in place of another player
- Scientist - A person who knows a great deal about some branch of science
- Tomahawk - A small axe. It was once used as a tool or weapon by certain Indians in North America
- Vegetation - Plants Life
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There once was an old spinstress who had a very lazy daughter. She would not take to spinning, no matter how her mother tried to persuade her. One day the old woman lost her patience and began to beat the lazy child. The girl began to shout and scream teribbly. Just at that moment the queen herself happened to be passing by the cottage. “Why do you beat the poor child so?" the queen chided the spinstress, sternly. The woman was ashamed to admit how lazy her daughter was, and she lied instead. “why should I not beat her, when she will not stop working? She spins and spins all day; where is a poor woman to getr so much flax?" The queen comforted the poor girl, and told her;“ I like to spinners at work; the whirr of their wheels is like music to my ears." And she asked the girl's mother to let her take her daughter back to the castle with her. The woman was oinly to glad to see the back of the lazy child. When they got to the palace, the wueen led the girl to three chambers, filled from floor to ceiling with the finest flax.“ If you spin this flax for me as quickly as you can, you shall have my eldest son for your husband, for a woman's industry is more than any dowry." The girl was dismayed. She would never spin so much flax till the day she died. She went over to the window and began to cry.
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