
A little girl called Sylvie hurried through a dark forest one summer evening because she is afraid of her grandmother. She would be angry with her for being so late.
Every evening Sylvie left her grandmother's house at five-thirty to bring their cow home. It was Sylvie's job to bring her home to be milked. When the cow heard Sylvie's voice calling her, she would hide among the trees.
This evening it took Sylvie longer than usual to find her cow. The child hurried the cow through the dark forest, following a small road that led to her grandmother's home. The cow stopped at a small stream to drink.
She had never before been alone in the forest as late as this. The air was soft and sweet. Sylvie felt as if she were a part of the nature. She began thinking how it was only a year ago that she came to her grandmother's farm. Before that, she had lived with her mother and father in a dirty, crowded factory town. One day, Sylvie's grandmother had visited them and chose Sylvie from all her brothers and sisters to be the one to help her on her farm in Vermont.
The cow finished drinking, and as the nine-year-old child hurried through the forest to the home she loved, she thought again about the noisy town where her parents still lived.
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