The next day the man came again. His boy was with him.
"We can't wait any longer," he said. "We must cut the wheat ourselves."
Soon the mother lark came home.
The young ones told her what the man had said.
"Now we must be off," she cried. "When a man sets out to do his work himself, it will be done."
So the lark and her young ones left the nest and found another home.
THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW
A dog once had a piece of meat.