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The Pitcher and The Crow

There once was a crow who was terribly thirsty. He noticed a bit of water at the bottom of a tall clay pitcher. Now, his beak was too wide and the pitcher too thin to poke his thirsty tongue down in.

"What shall I do?" thought the crow. "I'll think and think! I must get myself a drink!"

"Ah HA!" exclaimed crow, as an idea came to him.

He took a pebble in his beak and dropped it over the pitcher's brim. Plop! Plop! He dropped two more in. On and on he went. One by one the pebbles fell, slowly making the water swell until it was easily within reach of his thirsty tongue.

"AHHHH!" he said as he took a drink, "No problem's too big when I think and think."

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