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Article: The Day Fox Helped Gray One.(Short Story)
- Article from:
- Children's Digest
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
- Author:
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An Iroquois Folk Tale
In the forest many years ago lived a good-natured animal called Gray One. Gray One could climb like Opossum, but he was not an opossum. He could run like Fox, but he disliked hurrying. The sooner you get somewhere, he often thought, the sooner you have to come back.
One day, Gray One met Bear walking in the forest.
"Get out of the way!" Bear growled. "Hurry up!"
"I don't like to hurry" Gray One said.
This angered Bear. "I'll help you along" he said. Bear swatted Gray One off the path like a loose pine cone. Bear's laughter echoed through the forest as he left Gray One behind.
"Everyone pushes me ...