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Sunlight dapples the farm path as Lola, in butterfly earrings, a red shirt, and jeans, catches a wind-blown hat. She hands it back to a gray cat with a gentle smile, while a brown dog wags his tail nearby.
Lola skipped down the sunny farm path. A brown dog ran up to her. "Woof, woof!" he barked happily. He jumped over a log. Lola giggled and patted his soft head. Then a gray cat appeared. "Meow, meow!" the cat purred. She was chasing a hat that blew in the wind. Lola caught the hat and gave it back. "Thank you for playing with me!" said Lola to her new friends.
Lola, wearing butterfly earrings, a red shirt, and jeans, leans over the fence of the big red barn. She calls 'Moo!' to a spotted cow, who nods, while a yellow duck waddles from the pond, splashing droplets.
Lola walked to the big red barn. "Moo, moo!" called a spotted cow from the fence. Lola tried making the sound too. "Moo!" she said, and the cow nodded. Near the pond, a yellow duck splashed in the water. "Quack, quack!" it said loudly. The duck waddled up to Lola. "You're so funny!" Lola laughed. She splashed her hand in the water with the duck.
In the golden meadow, Lola sits cross-legged among fluffy white sheep, her butterfly earrings, red shirt, and jeans bright against the grass. She tilts her head, asking about counting stars, and a sheep 'baa's softly, making her smile.
In the meadow, white sheep were eating grass. "Baa, baa!" they said together. Lola sat down with them. "Are you counting stars tonight?" she asked the woolly sheep. They just said "Baa!" again and made her smile.
Lola, in butterfly earrings, a red shirt, and jeans, dances a jig with a giggling pink pig. Near the barn, a boy roars like a lion, and an owl hoots from a tree as Lola claps and sings.
A pink pig danced by. "Oink, oink!" it giggled, doing a funny jig. Lola danced along too. From the barn came a loud "Roar!" but it was just her brother peter pretending to be a lion. "You're brave!" said Lola. An owl in the tree said "Hoot, hoot!" Lola clapped her hands. "One, two, three! What a fun animal parade!" She sang all the sounds: "Woof, meow, moo, quack, neigh, baa, oink, roar, hoot!"