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Before he left, he always said, “Don’t a gift so they can see that I am alive.
^il`]nҮ b^ sio nls ni ]m[Xj]Ү F qbee Ƅh\ I’ll come straight back to you.”
you, little girl!”
“No, little girl! You will get lost again
So Masha stayed in the cabin. She Xh\ b^ sio \i Ƅh\ siol qXsҮ F \ihӆn
cleaned and kept the stove burning believe you will come back,” said the
and made the bear’s dinner, but all bear. “But if you give the gift to me,
the time she was hatching a plan for I will deliver it to them for you.”
her escape. She knew it had to be
This was exactly what Masha had
something clever. “I can’t run away,
hoped to hear. It was all part of her
because I don’t know where I am
clever plan. She smiled and thanked
and I’ll get lost again,” she thought.
the bear for such a good idea. Then
One night, the bear came home and she went to bed early to prepare for
Masha said, “Bear, please let me go a busy day ahead.
to my village and see my grandma
and grandpa. They must be terribly
worried about me. Let me take them
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