Why a Bee?
Author
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Once upon a time the animals had a school. They had
four subjects: running, climbing, flying, and
swimming-and all animals took all subjects.
The duck was good at swimming, better than the teachers
in fact. He made passing grades in running and flying,
but he was almost hopeless in climbing. So they made
him drop swimming to practice more climbing. Soon he
was only average in swimming. But average is OK, and
nobody worried much about it except the duck.
The eagle was considered a troublemaker. In his
climbing class he beat everybody to the top of the
tree, but he had his own way of getting there, which
was against the rules. He always had to stay after
school and write, Cheating is wrong 500 times. This
kept him from soaring, which he loved. But schoolwork
comes first.
The bear flunked because they said he was lazy,
especially in winter. His best time was summer, but
school wasn't open then.
The penguin never went to school because he couldn't
leave home, and they wouldn't start a school out where
he lived.
The zebra played hookey-a lot. The ponies made fun of
his stripes, and that made him very sad.
The kangaroo started out at the top of the running
class, but got discouraged trying to run on all fours
like the other kids.
The fish quit school because he was bored. To him all
four subjects were the same, but nobody understood
that.
They had never been a fish.
The squirrel got A's in climbing, but his flying
teacher made him start from the ground up instead of
the treetop down. His legs got so sore from practicing
takeoffs that he began getting C's and D's in running.
But the bee was the biggest problem of all, so the
teacher sent him to Dr. Owl for testing. Dr. Owl said
that the bees wings were just too small for flying and
besides they were in the wrong place. But the bee never
saw Dr. Owls report, so he just went ahead and flew
anyway.
I think I know a bee or two, don't you?
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the Christian Kind.
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