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THE WIND AND THE SUN
Adapted from Aesop
The Wind once blustered to the Sun as he shook
the tall tree tops and set all the leaves a-trembling:
“Ho! Ho! friend Sun, see how strong I am. You
could never do that! Watch me! I can bend the
great trees and break the little flowers off their
stems”
The Sun answered, quietly, “Yes, but I can melt
the ice and make the flowers and trees blossom.”
Still the Wind went on blustering and boasting
and shaking the treetops.
Presently they saw a man coming down the road.
Then the Sun said: “I know how we can prove
which one of us is the stronger. Whichever can
make that man take off his coat, will be shown
to be stronger than the other. You try first.”
So the Sun hid his big round face behind a
cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as
he could upon the man. He raged and he snarled
and he howled! He whipped and he tore and he
tugged! But the harder he tried in these ways to
force the man to take off his coat, the more closely
did the man wrap it around him, till at last the
Wind found that he could do nothing, and he had
to give up trying altogether.
Then the Sun came gently out from behind the
clouds. Warm and bright, he shone on the man;
joyous and sparkling he smiled on him, till at
last the man felt that warmth all through and
through. He looked up with an answering smile,
at the shining round face in the sky; then of his
own wish he took off his coat. So the Sun had
proved that his mild gentleness was far more power-
ful than all the wild bluster of the Wind.
