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that rock and leave those piroshki he could. The dogs chased him and
alone! They belong to my grandma snapped at his heels until he was
and grandpa.” deep in the forest. The bear ran and
ran and didn’t dare to look back.
The bear jumped up and growled,
“How can she see so far?” He picked Masha’s grandparents heard the
up the basket and carried on walking. commotion outside and opened the
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At last, he reached the village and
doorstep. “I wonder what’s inside?”
found Masha’s cottage. He knocked
said Grandma. When Grandpa
on the door and shouted, “Open up!
opened the lid, they could hardly
I have a gift for you from Masha.”
believe their eyes. Masha was sitting
But the noise made Masha’s dogs inside the basket grinning happily!
bark. When they picked up the scent
“You’re alive!” they cried, and they
of the bear, they ran across the garden
gave Masha lots of hugs and kisses.
and yapped and snarled at him. Soon
“What a clever little girl you are,
all the dogs in the village picked up
Masha,” they said – and when the
the scent and they raced towards the
bear got home and realised he
bear and barked at him too.
had been tricked, he thought
The bear was so scared, he dropped the same thing too!
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