Once upon a time there was a family of beetles living in a
field. They worked hard every summer so that they wouldn’t be hungry in the
winter. Another family lived in the same field. They were a family of ants. The
ants and the beetles were good friends and sometimes they even shared their
grain.
One day, a beetle boy named Tommy was looking around for his
chocolate. He couldn’t find it anywhere – it had disappeared! He went to ask
his mother, “I can’t find my chocolate anywhere, do you know where it is?”
“That’s strange,” said his mother, “I don’t know any beetles who
would take another beetle’s chocolate.”
“But the only other family in the field is the ant family. That
means those dishonest ants must have taken it!” Tommy sobbed.
News of the missing chocolate spread throughout the beetle
family and they became very angry about it. Soon they didn’t share their grain
with the ant family and they even sometimes had fights with them. The two
families were never friendly to each other ever again and they always
distrusted each other.
It wasn’t until later that Tommy remembered he had eaten his
chocolate himself. He didn’t tell anyone.
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