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LITERATURE CARNIVAL•CORNICE •GRADE V
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Everyone except for the Grasshopper: Oh hooray! He's going to play for us!

Narrator : From the moment the first note was struck, the audience started going
wild. James had never heard such beautiful music in his life.

James: I had heard some grasshoppers chirping, but this is terrific music… Real
music! It sounds like you’re playing on a real violin, Old-Green-Grasshopper!

Narrator : The grasshopper was supposedly playing a violin. The bow of the
violin was moved by his back leg.

Miss Spider: He has incredible talent! Who would think grasshoppers could play
such beautiful music!

Narrator : The Centipede and the Earthworm as always were fighting over trivial things.
James really didn't want the Centipede and the Earthworm to get into another argument,
so he changed the topic.

James : Tell me, do you play any kind of music, Earthworm?

Earthworm : No, but I still do some very extraordinary things…

James : Extraordinary things? Such as what?

Centipede : Aren’t you going to ask me, boy?

James : Oh, of course. What do you do?

Centipede : Well, of course…I am a pest! I annoy everyone!

Earthworm: Don’t listen to this nonsense James. Anyway, next time you stand in a field or a
garden, look at the soil. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?

James: Yes, it is. What about it?

Earthworm : Well, every single bit of mud that you see there was once eaten by
an earthworm and came out the other side…

James : WHAT?! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!

Centipede: My dear boy, it’s a fact. And Old Greenie, can you tell him the other
fact, for your part?