“Caw, caw! Fire, Fire! Burn stick;
Stick won’t beat snake;
Snake won’t bite queen;
Queen won’t coax king;
King won’t kill man;
Man won’t cut tree;
I can’t get the grain of corn
To save my life from the farmer’s wife!”
But the fire refused to burn the stick.
So the crow flew and flew until he saw some water, and he said: