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Chapter One
Pip and the Sea That Shouted
Pip the rabbit had never seen the sea before. It was bigger than the meadow. It was bigger, even, than the sky on a clear day — only the sky was upside down and made of waves, and it shouted at the rocks in a voice she could not quite understand.
“What are you saying?” Pip asked the sea, very politely, because her mother had told her that the sea was old and old things deserved manners.
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Pipedges closer, ears flat against the wind, deciding the sea is more friend than monster.
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Crabscuttles sideways onto a flat rock and waits, watching, the way old things wait.
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The Seasoftens its voice for the small visitor, and pushes a curl of foam over Pip's paws.
The sea did not answer in words. It pushed a small green crab onto the sand instead, and the crab looked at Pip the way a librarian looks at someone who has come in dripping wet.
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