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This teaching that Smartest did reminded me of my own schooling. Now, we had to learn some of the same things as the owls but there were also some differences.
As Crows, we had to learn how to be really noisy. We would all gather on the top of farmer Tom’s barn and make that stupid cawing sound everyone expects us to make.
We would keep it up until farmer Tom would come out of his house or barn and throw something at us. We would all howl with laughter because that was the point of the lesson ... caw until you get shooed away. That meant you were loud.
I will never forget the morning we went to farmer Tom’s and began our practice. We cawed and cawed as loud as we could. This went on and on until we were exhausted but no farmer Tom. We were getting so tired that some were about to pass out. That is when our teacher asked what we had learned that day. I said that we had learned that farmer Tom was deaf.
“No, no,” the teacher said. “We learned that when farmer Tom’s red pick-em-up truck is not here, then neither is farmer Tom. The red pick-em-up truck cannot leave without farmer Tom. And do you know what else we learned today?” the teacher asked. “We learned that when the red pick-em-up truck is gone, we get to eat the corn till we pop!” A really good lesson.
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