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The Wolf and the Crane
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A wolf had been feasting too greedily, and
a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat.
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He could get it neither up nor down and, of
course, he could not eat a thing. Naturally,
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that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy
wolf, so away he hurried to the crane. He was
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sure that she with her long neck and bill would
easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out.
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"I will reward you very handsomely," said
the wolf, "if you pull that bone out for me."
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The crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy
about putting her head in a wolf's throat,
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but she was grasping in nature, so
she did what the wolf asked her to
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do. When the wolf felt that the bone
was gone, he started to walk away.
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"But what about my reward?"
called the crane anxiously.
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"What?" snarled the wolf, whirling
around. "Haven't you got it? Isn't
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it enough that I let you take your head
out of my mouth without snapping it off?"
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What's the moral of the story?
Write it in the comments. Then
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check the video description where
you'll also find vocabulary notes.
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