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THE CROW AND THE PITCHER
Adapted from Aesop
There was once a good old black Crow and he was
very, very thirsty. He looked and looked for water,
but all he could find was a little bit at the bottom of
a deep pitcher. The Crow put his beak into the
pitcher and tried very hard to reach the water, but
there was so little left that, try as he would, he could
not get it.
He turned and was about to go sorrowfully away
when an idea came to him. He went back, picked up
a pebble and dropped it in the pitcher; then he took
another pebble and dropped that into the pitcher.
Then he looked down in to see what had happened to
the water. The pebbles had made the water rise just
a little way. He would have to work hard to get
pebbles enough to bring the water up to a place where
he could reach it. At first he thought he would give
up trying and fly away. Then he said to himself:
“No, though I seem to find so little change each
time I drop in a pebble, if I keep right at my work,
and keep at it, and keep at it, at last I shall get
my drink.”
So he went back patiently to work and dropped in
another pebble and another and another. Little by
little he saw the water rise. At last, it came up
where he could reach it. Then he put in his beak and
was able to take the good drink of which he was so
much in need.
