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When he went home, he told his family what he had seen and what 

 he had decided to do. He became a great worker. 

 He learned something from the fish. 



3.— A LESSON FROM NATURE (2) 



There lived a lazy boy. Every morning he took his fishing pole 

 and basket and went to the river to fish. He stayed there all day, 

 even if he did not catch anything. He went about almost naked, 

 dirty, and with long hair. 



One day whUe he was walking in the brushwood, he noticed a bird 

 in the crotch of a tree. It had something in its bill. Then another 

 bird flew in, and it had something in its bill. The boy wondered why 

 they were carrying things. Then he saw that they were buUding 

 something nice and round. Although they had no hands, only legs, 

 they managed to do this. 



At a shallow place in the river he saw a big fish, a red head, swimming 

 swiftly about gathering gravel. He watched it at work. He thought 

 of the condition of the fish; it had neither hands nor legs. 



Then understanding came to him. "I have arms and legs and a 

 mind — more than they have!" he thought. So he broke his fishing 

 pole and threw it into the water, than threw the basket in after it 

 and went home. 



It was early spring. He took an ax and cut down trees and cleared 

 land. He borrowed watermelon and muskmelon seed and planted 

 them. In the faU he had ever so many melons, and these he carried 

 to market under his arms, two at a time, and sold them. With the 

 money he received for them, he bought clothes. He washed himself. 



The next year he planted more melons, and it was not long before 

 he became one of the most prosperous young men in the settlement. 



That is what he learned from the birds and the fish. 



4.— THE WHITE MAN AND THE INDIAN 



A White man and an Indian met and sat down together upon a log. 

 The White man sat upon the right side, the Indian sat upon the left. 



The White man kept moving over, pushing the Indian, until the 

 Indian was sitting upon the very edge of the log. Still the White 

 man pushed. 



The Indian said, "I can't sit anymore. I suppose this is what 

 win happen to us." 



He meant that the White people would push the Indians out 

 toward the West. 



