A dove drops a leaf onto the water so the ant can reach safety. Later the roles reverse, and the ant’s small action gives the dove a chance to escape. Help depends on noticing a need rather than equal strength. Follow the shift from leaf to wing without promising that kindness always brings a return.
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[Complete Original Text 1]
An Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and, being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of being drowned. A Dove, sitting on a tree overhanging the water, plucked a leaf, and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant, climbing on to it, floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot.
He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made the Dove take wing.
The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.
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