Page 7 - Whos A. Fraid

The first lesson I saw Smartest teach his little owl pupils was the class on recognition. You see, a difference between owls and crows is that most crows look very much alike.
But with owls, well, there are all kinds of owls. What Smartest wanted to do was to show the students all the different types of owls they might encounter.
The way he did this was to get a bunch of his owl friends together, who were different owl types, and show them to his students. He would explain how they were different and how they were similar. What different types of food they ate and on and on. Smartest had obviously put a lot of time into his project and the other owls were certainly cooperative.
It was at this point that I heard Fraid speak up. “I don’t like them. They are different and funny looking. That one in the middle looks more like a hawk than an owl, and he is scary. I’m not sure they are really owls and they should not be here. This is our forest and they should leave and stop trying to scare us.”
Many of the other young owls shook their heads in agreement while the others just looked puzzled.
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