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   Water falls on the earth as rain. In most parts of India the most rain falls in the months from June to September. In the south-east of India most rain falls from October to January. Much of the water which falls as rain runs into screams and rivers. Some of it is collected in tanks. Some of it runs through the ground into wells.

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   Iron is the most useful of all metals. Tools are made of steel which is very hard iron. Axes, saws and chisels are all tools. Without them houses could not be built, and chairs, tables, and beds could not be made. Without steel we could have no trains. The engines, the rail lines and even the wheels of the carriage are made of it.

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   Once a boy tended sheep in a field. One day the boy called out, 'Wolf! Wolf' The man nearby thought that a wolf was killing the sheep. So they ran to help the boy. But when they came they saw no a wolf, and the boy only laughed. So they went back to their work. But one day a wolf did come. Then the boy called out, 'Help! Help! The Wolf!' But nobody did come this time. So the wolf killed many of the sheep.

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   Once a Rishi had a dog. It loved its master very much, and would and would never leave him. All day it would sit at his feet. When he went to get water, it would run behind him. When he was getting his food from the trees, it would sit and wait for him. It did not want bones to eat. It would eat just what its master gave it.

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   There lived a rich widow in a town. She lost her eye-sight. She declared that if any doctor restored her eye-sight, she would pay him a large sum of money. A doctor who was an eye specialist undertook to cure her. He visited the widow everyday. Her house was full of good furniture. As the lady was unable to see, he took away the furniture one by one.

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   It was a cold winter morning. An ant was drying some corns. There was also a grasshopper who lived nearby. He had no food to eat. He looked pale and hungry. He came to the ant asked him to give a bit of corn. He was dying for want of food. The ant said to the grasshopper, "What did you do in summer?" "Dear friend," said the grasshopper, "I kept singing all through the summer" The ant said, "You sang all the summer along. Now you may dance all through the winter."