The Dog and His Reflection
A dog with a bone sees another dog in the water — with a bigger bone!
A dog found a big, meaty bone. He wagged his tail. "This is mine!" he said, and he trotted off to eat it at home.
On the way, he crossed a little bridge over a stream. He looked down into the water.
There was another dog in the water! And that dog had a bone too — and it looked even bigger than his.
"I want that bone!" thought the dog. "Then I will have two!"
He opened his mouth to bark — WOOF! — and his own bone fell, SPLASH, into the stream.
The bone sank down, down, down to the bottom. And the dog in the water? He was gone too. He had only been a reflection, like in a mirror.
The dog walked home slowly, with no bone at all. "I should have been happy with the bone I had," he sighed.
⭐ The End ⭐
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- What did the dog see in the water?
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His own reflection, which looked like another dog with a bone. - Why did the dog lose his bone?
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He opened his mouth to bark and it fell into the stream. - What is a reflection?
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A picture of yourself you see in a mirror or still water.
