A BALE OF STRAW that once lived in a field was very lazy and barely ever bathed. As time passed, he started to smell badly. One day a flea jumped on him even and started tickling him.
He, then, felt a great itching and started scratching all over. He scratched and scratched, until he could have no more and thought the flea had disappeared. The more he looked for it, however, the more the flea hid to escape him. As soon as he stopped, it went out of its hideout and itched him even more.
When, at some point, the bale thought he had enough, he asked the help of the rake. “Please help me scratch”, he asked her, and she happily accepted, thinking it was her duty to do so. She scratched him so hard to the point he felt no more itching. No matter how hard they searched, however, they couldn’t find the flea, as finding a flea in a bale is a very difficult thing.
After a while, and as soon as the rake had left, the flea started tickling the bale again. So strong was the tickling this time, however, that the bale started running to escape his fate, and all sorts of black crows gathered above his head to follow him, thanks to his foul smell. He couldn’t see where he was going. Eventually, he came across a river in which he jumped to save himself. The bale then dispersed in the water, and along with the bale, the flea also drowned in the river. Not really knowing how to swim, he caught himself from a log that was floating nearby. Fearful of the water’s force, the crows simply flew away, laughing at the smelly bale’s lesson. A farmer appeared after a while, who picked up the rake and patiently collected the pieces of the bale. After letting them dry in the Sun, he built a cute scarecrow, on which he even placed a hat, a shirt, and a broomstick to scare the crows away. Since that time, our good straw bale took his lesson and realized that taking a bath now and then is far more preferable to messing with fleas....
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