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Summer Soup

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 3, 4, 5
Page count: 7
Categories: Tall Tale

Author

Marguerite
Davol

Appeared in

Papa Alonzo Leatherby: A Collection of Tall Tales

Story Summary

One July afternoon in Carroll county the sun got stuck at two o'clock. It got so hot that fish jumped out of the river into the frying pan already fried and the hens laid hard-boiled eggs.

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