Ophie
Ophie
Ophie
As her class went from exhibit to exhibit in the Aqua Hall, Stacy couldn't help but
wish they would hurry up. She didn't care about the lizards and fish they were
looking at. She wanted to get to the big animals.
Finally, after what seemed like hours, her class made their way out to the big pens
where the large animals lived. Stacy watched the monkeys swing from branch to
branch, saw the giraffes with their long stretchy necks and touched the elephant.
But she hadn't seen the lions yet.
She was starting to feel sad that she wasn't going to see them when her class
turned the corner and there they were, right in front of her. Mama lion was laying
in the grass with two little cubs jumping around her. Stacy couldn't take her eyes
off of them. They were so small and so very cute!
When it was time to say goodbye to the zoo, Stacy put her hand on the glass that
was separating her from the lions as a farewell. One of the cubs looked up and
scampered over to the glass, right in front of Stacy.
Then it did the most amazing thing that Stacy had ever seen. It lifted its paw and
put it on the glass, right in front of Stacy's hand. It was as if the cub was saying
goodbye too. Stacy couldn't wait to get home and tell her sister all about it.
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What did one of the cubs do at the very end of the story?
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