Page 12 - Mulan

Mulan runs h01ue to her family. 'Then I must go,' says her father.

·Mother, Father, · she cries. 'I have 'You can't go, you're ill,' says her
sorne bad ne,vs. The Emperor mother.
wants a man frmu every house to

figbt in the anny.'

'But when a n1an doesn't

join the army the Emperor
always punishes hís
fan1ily.' says her father.

·rt's ali right. · says Mulan .
Tm young and strong. r 'But how?' asks her 1nother. 'You're

can go in Father's place.' a girl and everybody knows ill'

news when someone tells you strong w,th a body that works well
someth,ng that is new in someone's place when you do
punish to do something bad to something ror someone because they
someone arter they do something bad can'! do it
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