CHAPTER 1 A Basket of Berries Once upon a time there was a little girl called Masha She was picking berries in the forest She stayed on the edge of the forest so she could see house her
From the forest's edge she could see the red roof on her house She could still see its white walls and smoking chimney Masha's parents had told her not to go too far into the trees Forests are easy to get lost in Forests are hard to escape from warned they
Soon Masha had picked all the ripe fruit on the bushes at the edge of the forest But Masha's basket was not full and she had lots of brothers and sisters feed to
So she took a few steps farther into the forest to pick more berries Then she went a little farther Then she went farther even
