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Speaker 1: In this story, the dragonfly grub wonders where Frog goes

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Speaker 1: when he leaves the pond and gathers his courage to

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Speaker 1: ask him. Frog offers to take the grub with him

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Speaker 1: to show him where he goes, but the grub doesn't

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Speaker 1: believe there is anywhere past the pond. Frog tells him

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Speaker 1: a whole other story of what he has seen. The dragonfly.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what becomes of the frog when he climbs

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Speaker 1: up out of this world and disappears, so that we

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Speaker 1: do not see even his shadow till PLoP he is

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Speaker 1: among us again? Does anybody know where he goes to?

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Speaker 1: Thus chattered the grub of a dragonfly as he darted

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Speaker 1: out with his companions in and out among the plants

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Speaker 1: at the bottom of a beautiful pond. In the center

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Speaker 1: of a wood. Who cares what the frog does, answered

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Speaker 1: one who overheard the grub's question. What is it to us?

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Speaker 1: Look out for food for yourself and let the other

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Speaker 1: people's business alone, cried another. But I would like to know,

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Speaker 1: said the grub. I can see all of you when

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Speaker 1: you pass by me among the plants in the water here,

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Speaker 1: And when I don't see you any longer, I wonder

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Speaker 1: where you have gone. I followed the frog just now

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Speaker 1: as he went upwards, and all at once he went

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Speaker 1: to the side of the water. Then he began to disappear,

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Speaker 1: and presently he was gone. Did he leave this world?

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Speaker 1: And where did he go? You silly fellow, cried another.

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Speaker 1: See what a good bite you have missed with your

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Speaker 1: wanderings about nothing, so saying, he seized an insect which

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Speaker 1: was flitting right in front of the grub. Suddenly there

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Speaker 1: was a heavy splash in the water, and a large

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Speaker 1: yellow frog swam down to the bottom among the grubs.

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Speaker 1: Ask the frog himself, suggested a minnow as he darted

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Speaker 1: by overhead. Such a chance of satisfying himself was not

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Speaker 1: to be lost, and after taking two or three turns

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Speaker 1: round the roots of the water lily. The grub gathered

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Speaker 1: up his courage, and, approaching the frog, asked, is it

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Speaker 1: permitted to a very unhappy creature to speak? The frog

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Speaker 1: turned his gold edged eyes upon him in surprise and answered,

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Speaker 1: very unhappy creatures had better be silent. I never talk

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Speaker 1: but when I'm happy. But I shall be happy if

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Speaker 1: I may talk, said the grub. Talk away, then, said

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Speaker 1: the frog. But it is something I want to ask you.

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Speaker 1: Ask away, exclaimed the frog. What is there beyond the world,

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Speaker 1: inquired the grub in a very quiet way. What world

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Speaker 1: do you mean this pond, asked the frog, rolling his

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Speaker 1: google eyes round and round. I mean the place we

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Speaker 1: live in, whatever way you may choose to call it,

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Speaker 1: I call it the world, said the grub. Do you sharp,

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Speaker 1: little fellow? Then what is the place you don't live in?

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Speaker 1: That's just what I want you to tell me, replied

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Speaker 1: the little grub. Oh, indeed, little one, I shall tell you.

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Speaker 1: Then it is dry land. Can one swim about there?

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Speaker 1: Inquired the grub. I should think not, chuckled the frog.

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Speaker 1: Dry Land is not water, that is just what it is. Not.

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Speaker 1: Dry Land is something like the sludge at the bottom

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Speaker 1: no water. Really, what is there? Then? That's the difficulty,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed froggy. There is something, of course, they call it air.

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Speaker 1: But how to explain it I don't know. Now, just

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Speaker 1: take my advice and ask no more silly questions. I

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Speaker 1: tell you the thing is not worth your troubling yourself about.

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Speaker 1: But I admire your spirit, continued the frog. I will

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Speaker 1: make you an offer. If you choose to take a

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Speaker 1: seat on my back, I will carry you up to

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Speaker 1: dry land, and you can judge for yourself what is

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Speaker 1: there and how you like it. I accept with gratitude,

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Speaker 1: honored frog, said the little grub. Drop yourself down on

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Speaker 1: my back, then, and cling to me as well as

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Speaker 1: you can. Come now, hold fast. The little grub obeyed,

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Speaker 1: and the frog, swimming gently upwards, soon reached the bulrushes

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Speaker 1: by the water's side. Hold fast, repeated the frog, and then,

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Speaker 1: raising his head out of the pond, he clambered up

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Speaker 1: the bank and got upon the grass. Now, then here

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Speaker 1: we are, exclaimed the frog. What do you think of

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Speaker 1: dry land? But no one answered Hello, gone, that's just

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Speaker 1: what I was afraid of. He has floated off my back.

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Speaker 1: Silly fellow, but perhaps he has made his way to

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Speaker 1: the water's edge here after all, and then I can

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Speaker 1: help him out. I'll wait about and see. And away

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Speaker 1: went Froggy with a leap along the grass by the

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Speaker 1: edge of the pond, glancing every now and then among

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Speaker 1: the bulrushes to see if he could spot his little friend,

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Speaker 1: the dragon fly grub. But what had become of the

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Speaker 1: little grub? He had really clung to the frog's back

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Speaker 1: with all his might, But the moment the mask of

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Speaker 1: his face began to issue from the water, a shock

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Speaker 1: seemed to strike his frame, and he reeled from his

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Speaker 1: resting place back into the pond, panting and struggling for life. Terrible,

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Speaker 1: he cried as soon as he came to himself. The

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Speaker 1: frog has deceived me. He cannot go there at any rate.

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Speaker 1: And with these words, the little grub moved away to

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Speaker 1: his old companions to talk over with them what he

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Speaker 1: had done and where he had been. It was terrible, terrible.

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Speaker 1: But the sun is beginning to set, and I must

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Speaker 1: take a turn around the pond and search for food.

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Speaker 1: And away went the little dragon fly grub for a

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Speaker 1: ramble among the water plants. On his return, who should

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Speaker 1: he see sitting calmly on a stone at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the pond. But his friend, the yellow frog, you here,

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Speaker 1: cried the startled grub. You never left this world at all? Then,

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Speaker 1: how you deceived me? Frog? Clumsy fellow, replied the frog.

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Speaker 1: Why did you not sit fast as I told you?

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Speaker 1: The little grub soon told his story, while the frog

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Speaker 1: sat staring at him in silence out of his great

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Speaker 1: goo eyes. And now, said the grub, since there is

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Speaker 1: nothing beyond this world, all your stories of going there

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Speaker 1: must be mere inventions. As I have no wish to

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Speaker 1: be fooled by any more of your tales, I will

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Speaker 1: bid you a very good evening. You'll do no such things,

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Speaker 1: said the frog, until you have heard my story as

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Speaker 1: you wish, answered the grub. Then the frog told him

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Speaker 1: how he had lingered by the edge of the pond

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Speaker 1: in hope of seeing the little grub again, how he

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Speaker 1: had hopped about in the grass, how he had peeked

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Speaker 1: among the bulrushes. And at last, he continued, though I

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Speaker 1: did not see you yourself, I saw a sight which

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Speaker 1: has more interest for you than for any other creature

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Speaker 1: that lives. And then the frog stops speaking. What was it?

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Speaker 1: Asked the inquisitive little grub up the polished green stalk

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Speaker 1: of one of those bulrushes. I saw a little dragonfly

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Speaker 1: grub slowly and gradually climbed till he had left the

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Speaker 1: water behind him. As I continued to look, I noticed

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Speaker 1: that a small hole seemed to come in your friend's body.

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Speaker 1: I cannot tell you in what way the thing happened,

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Speaker 1: but after many struggles, there came from it. One of

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Speaker 1: those beautiful creatures who float through the air and dazzle

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Speaker 1: the eyes of all who catch glimpses of them as

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Speaker 1: they pass. A glorious dragonfly, as if just waking from

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Speaker 1: a dream. He lifted his wings out of the cover.

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Speaker 1: Though shriveled and damp at first, they stretched and expanded

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Speaker 1: in the sunshine till they glistened as if with fire.

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Speaker 1: I saw the beautiful creature at last old himself for

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Speaker 1: a second or two in the air before he took flight.

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Speaker 1: I saw the four gauzy wings flash back the sunshine

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Speaker 1: that was poured on them. I heard the clash with

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Speaker 1: which they struck the air, and I saw his body

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Speaker 1: give out rays of glittering blue and green as he

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Speaker 1: darted along and away over the water. In circles that

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Speaker 1: seemed to know no end. Then I plunged below to

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Speaker 1: find you out and tell you the good news. It's

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Speaker 1: a wonderful story, said the little grub. A wonderful story, indeed,

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Speaker 1: repeated the frog. And you really think then, that the

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Speaker 1: glorious creature you saw was once a silence, cried the frog.

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Speaker 1: All your questions have been answered. It is getting dark

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Speaker 1: here in your world. I must return to my grassy

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Speaker 1: home on dry land. Go to rest, little fellow, and

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Speaker 1: awake in hopes. The frog swam close to the bank

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Speaker 1: and clambered up its side, while the little grub returned

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Speaker 1: to his companions to wait and hope. Good night, Sleep

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