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Huynh And His Family In Vietnam
Huynh and his family lived in the central highlands of Vietnam. As the main character, it seemed that the narrator talked more about what his cousin was doing. The story started off with how Tank, the water buffalo, came into Huynh’s daily life. Tank was a brawny-built buffalo that provided much for the family’s needs. Huynh had a very skillful cousin who knew a lot about almost everything you could think of when living in the dangerous part of Vietnam. His cousin found three baby birds one day and decided to teach each bird a different song. So every day, after feeding them, he would sing each song he wanted them to imitate. After three months, one bird learned how to sing, “The Blue Danube Waltz,” he taught the second bird, “The Bridge over

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