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THE SINGLE WAY

Afar up on the Continental Divide the Mother Raincloud gave birth to two little Rills. They were close together, but had different paths. “I shall be a great River and do great things, for I believe in breadth; a hundred valleys and all the plains shall know me,” said one, as he turned eastward.

“I shall be a River in one valley. You will think me narrow, but one interest is all I can attend to,” said the other, as he turned westward.

So they went their divers ways. The one to the east chopped and changed its course. It ran all over the plains, each year in a new channel. It has not yet begun to scoop out a valley. It is of no ..text pokračuje