Higher

by Brad Beals

At the top of a boxwood tree, which sat right between a thick wood and a cornfield, there lived a squirrel. And at the foot of the same tree, where it grew from a sandy bank, there lived a rabbit.

One day Rabbit said to Squirrel, "What are you doing?" He asked this because it appeared to Rabbit that Squirrel was emptying his nest.

"I'm emptying my nest," said Squirrel.

"I can see that," replied Rabbit. "What I should have asked was why are you emptying your nest?"

"Because I'm moving," answered Squirrel.

"I see."

Rabbits are not the brightest of animals. And for this one, holding onto a thought for any good measure of time was often more work than he cared to do, so having quite forgotten what they'd been talking about, Rabbit moved on to other things. "Did you hear the news?"

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