Sensing danger, the ducks flew together over the lake. From the height it was clearly visible that the entire shore was swarming with long-tailed reptiles with a prickly scaly crest on their heads and strong clawed paws. Unlike ordinary dragons, they lacked membranous wings. But they were distinguished by incredible malice and deceit. Such a creature looks at everything - everything around withers, wherever it steps - the grass does not grow.
Hunger drove these reptiles to the shore of the lake, where all kinds of living creatures were found in abundance among the reed thickets. Frustrated that the prey slipped out from under their noses, the creatures decided to cross to the other side.
They were capable of everything, but they had not learned to swim. How can this be? Then one of them came up with a cunning idea: to wrap their long tails tightly around each other, forming some kind of raft.
No sooner said than done. And so the screaming monsters swam, paddling together with their paws and raising their heads high. It seemed as if Satan himself had tied them with a rope.
Flying over the swimming reptiles, the leader of the duck school shouted:
- Look! This is what can be achieved through unity and ingenuity.
Having united, evil is capable of all sorts of tricks in order to survive and do its dirty work. It wouldn’t hurt to do good things just as resourcefully and boldly.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru