WOODMYTH & FABLE 



THE SINGLE WAY 



FAR up on the Continental 

 Divide the Mother Rain- 

 cloud gave birth to tw^o little 

 Rills. They v^ere close to- 

 gether, but had different paths. "I shall 

 be a great River and do great things, for I 

 believe in breadth ; a hundred valleys and 

 all the plains shall know me," said one, 

 as he turned eastward. 



*' I shall be a River in one valley. You 

 will think me narrow, but one interest is 

 all I can attend to," said the other, as he 

 turned westward. 



So they went their divers ways. The 

 one to the east chopped and changed its 

 course. It ran all over the plains, each 

 year in a new channel. It has not yet 

 begun to scoop out a valley. It is of no 



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