Here is a dog.
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A dog has a big bone. Then he sees a dog in the water with a bone too, and he wants that one. An old fable in the fewest words.
Here is a dog.
He has a bone.
He runs and runs.
Here is a log.
Under it is water.
He looks down.
A dog! A bone!
That bone is big!
"I want it too!"
He opens his mouth.
Bark! Bark!
Splash! Down it goes.
The bone is gone.
Who was that dog?
It was him!
No bone now!
Love what you have.
A free early reader story from the Peabody library. It has 17 short pages and about 63 words, so it reads in a few minutes. It is also called “The Dog and His Reflection”.
Be glad for what you have; grabbing for more can lose it.
Aesop, a storyteller in Greece, told this about 2,600 years ago.
More like this: Aesop's fables for kids · moral stories for kids
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