The Adventures of Dove Step the Sheep-Chapter 7

After experiencing about kites, Dove found a painted strange thing on the ground. It looked like this:
It was interesting to look at. The design seemed balanced.

Mimi asked Dove Step, "How many ants does it take to lift one ton?" Dove chucked as he thought for a second, then replied, "A ton of ants!"

Dove's mom called to him to come see something she found stuck in the grass. He came romping over to see what all the excitement was about. What he saw next was interesting and definitely was NOT something to eat. It was long, thin and white. It had a funny kind of interesting pattern on it.
 Mom explained about snakes and how they shed their skins as they grow bigger. What they were then looking at was a snake skin. She then explained the respectful caution they needed to exercise around rocky and grassy places-where snakes regularly frequent.

As Mimi and Dove wandered off, Mimi noticed something stuck in Dove's fleece.

"What's that in your fleece?" Dove tried to turn to see it, but he ended up turning around and around. It looked like he was chasing his tail. Still he couldn't see it. When Mimi started to laugh he felt sheepish, stopped and asked for her help.

She tried to lick it out. But it poked her tongue. So she tried to bite around it and gently pull it out. It took three tries but she was eventually successful.

They took it over to mom to find out what it was. she told them it was the seed, called a cockle-bur. It came from the burdock plant.

Dove started watching more closely for burrs. One day he said to Mimi, "I stepped on a burr. Now I'm cold" in the middle of a summer afternoon.

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