The Donkey Egg by Highlights for Children

Author:Highlights for Children
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hghlights for Children
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Do you hear any hooves tapping?”

“Do you hear any hooves tapping?” they asked one another.

“Not yet,” they answered.

The third week the farmer sat on the pumpkin. He drew pictures of a cart hitched to his new donkey.

Every evening they put their ears against the pumpkin.

“Do you hear a faraway ‘hee-haw’?” they asked one another.

“This donkey egg is no good!”

But they heard no hooves tapping, no long ears flapping, and no faraway “hee-haw.”

Suddenly, the farmer grabbed the pumpkin. “This donkey egg is no good!” he cried.

The farmer ran from the house and threw the pumpkin down a hill. The pumpkin crashed into bushes at the bottom.

The crash woke a long-eared rabbit. The frightened rabbit jumped out of the bushes and hopped away.

The farmer watched the rabbit and wailed, “Oh no! If only we had sat on the donkey egg longer! That little animal would have grown into a beautiful big donkey with giant ears and a long tail!”

Then the farmer went down the hill and picked pumpkin seeds out of the broken pumpkin and carried them home.

“I’ll plant these seeds and grow more donkey eggs,” he told his wife and daughter.

Hee-haw!

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