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paddled his tree toward shore.It started to rain. Lightning streaked down from the sky. The winds
blew his tree onto the land.
The boy found a cave and crawled inside. “Now I’m inside the earth. I’ll try to find fear under the
ground.” The boy felt around the cave. He found a warm, furry bed.When the boy stretched out
on the bed, there was a tremendous roar. The bed rolled over.
“It must be the great bear,” said the boy. “Now I’ll find fear.” The boy shook the great bear’s
legs. “Wake up,” he said. The bear shuddered and went back to sleep. The boy shouted in the
bear’s ear and poked her with a tree limb. The bear bounded out of the cave. The boy followed
her, waving the tree limb. “Wait!” yelled the boy. The bear ran faster.
“Mother was wrong,” said the boy. “I felt no fear when I saw the bear.” The boy filled his pail
with blackberries and walked back to his village.
There was a crowd of people in the town square. “Can you help me find fear?” the boy
asked a farmer.
“I’m too busy,” said a farmer. “Every hundred years, a new judge is chosen to settle
arguments. Today the old judge will throw a laurel wreath over the crowd. If it lands on my head,
I’ll be the new judge.”The boy crossed the square. He heard cheers and felt the laurel wreath fall
on his head.The crowd carried him to a towering throne. There he would sit for the next one
hundred years.He would listen to people’s arguments and try to make everyone happy. For the
first time, the boyfelt fear.

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