Giving the Seeding a Hand

Long long ago, in China, there lived a farmer .He was worried about his seeding growing too slowly .

One day ,he went to the farmland and pulled up the seeding one by one .When he returned home ,he was very . he said to his family ,"I helped the seeding to grow."

His son was surprised . He hurried to the fields to see what had happened .It turned out that all the seeding had shriveled up.

Look at the Sky from the Bottom of a Well.

There is a frog. He lives in a well and he never goes out of the well. He thinks the sky is as big as the mouth of the well.

One day a crow comes to the well. He sees the frog and says, “Frog, let’s have a talk.” Then the frog asks, “Where are you from?” “I fly from the sky,” the crow says. The frog feels surprised and says, “The sky is only as big as the mouth of the well. How do you fly from the sky?”

The crow says, “The sky is very big. You always stay in the well, so you don’t know the world is big.”

The frog says, “I don’t believe.” But the crow says, “You can come out and have a look by yourself.”

  So the frog comes out from the well. He is very surprised. How big the world is!

The simple English fable of two pots

　　 There were two pots on the bank of a river. One was made of brass, and the other was made of clay.

　　When the water rose they both floated off down the river. The earthen pot tried to stay away from the brass one.

　　So the brass pot cried out, "Fear nothing, friend, I will not hit you."

　　"But I may come in contact with you," said the earthen pot. "If I come too close, whether I hit you or you hit me, I shall suffer for it."

　　After that the earthen pot floated away.

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