Aesop H Puppet reads the fable of an oak tree and reeds by a brook. When a hurricane hits, the rigid oak uproots while the reeds survive by bending. The moral: yielding beats stubborn resistance when destruction is the cost.
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Hi, my name is Aesop H Puppet, and I'm going to read you one of Uncle Aesop's famous fables. This one is called "The Oak and the Reeds." A giant oak stood near a brook, in which grew some slender reeds. When the wind blew, The great Oak stood proudly upright, with its hundred arms uplifted to the sky; but the Reeds bowed low to the wind, and sang a sad and mournful song.
"You have reason to complain," said the Oak. "The slightest breeze that ruffles the surface of the waters makes you bow your heads." while I, the mighty Oak, stand upright and firm before the howling tempest.' 'Do not worry about us,' replied the Reeds.
'The winds do not harm us. We bow before them, and so we do not break. You, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows, 'But the end is coming.' As the reeds spoke, a great hurricane rushed out of the north. The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding reeds bowed low. The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell. Torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying reeds. Uncle Aesop says, "Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed."
