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Hendrika Quotes

10 of the best book quotes from Hendrika
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″ Hendrika loved Mr. Hofstra so she ate more to please him. But she was unhappy.”
Phyllis Krasilovsky
author
The Cow Who Fell In The Canal
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Hendrika
Mr. Hofstra
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unhappiness
eating
pleased
being unhappy
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“Poor unhappy Hendrika. She longed to see something besides the house, the barn, and the windmill. Instead she ate and ate and ate. And she grew fat and then fatter, and then very very very fat. She grew so fat that she could barely move.”
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“ ‘Eat, eat, Hendrika,’ he would say. ‘The more you eat the more creamy white milk you can give me.’ ”
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“Hendrika was an unhappy cow.... All winter and all summer she did nothing but eat.”
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“HENDRIKA WENT FLOATING DOWN THE CANAL!”
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“It was hard to run on the cobblestone but Hendrika was enjoying the city at last.”
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“Now she had so much to think about as she chewed the grass, looking so pretty in a colored straw hat with streamers!”
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“Hendrika loved the attention she was getting. She mooed with happiness. ”
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“Then some children on bicycles said ‘Look at the cow in the canal’ then followed after on the road above on the canal.”
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“The market was just as Peter told it would be. And the green straw hat tasted just as good as she thought it would be.”

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