每日英语故事：5月23日：The Lark and Her Young Ones already, friends, stronger, spring, 每日英语

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   A lark had made her nest in spring in a field of young green wheat. Her little ones had been growing larger and stronger all the summer, while the wheat grew taller and closer about their home. As autumn drew near, the young birds were almost old enough to fly, and the wheat was nearly ripe. One day the owner of the wheat-fled came, and  the little Larks heard him say to his son, “I think the wheat is already ripe, so we must ask our friends to come and help us gather it in.“ This startled the little birds. When their mother came home they told her what they had heard. “There is no need for moving yet, my children." said the mother.
   But when she left them as usual the next morning she told them to listen to what the Farmer would say if he came again, and to tell her exactly what it was, when she came back to them. After a few days the owner of the field came again, and the eager birds listened to get more news for their mother. “Since our friends have not come,” the farmer said to his son, “go and ask your mother .“Not yet,” said the mother; “the man who only asks his friends to help him  is not to be feared; but watch and listen, if he comes again.” And by and by he came. Seeing the wheat so ripe that it was shedding its grain, he said, “tomorrow we will come ourselves and cut the wheat.” And when the birds told this to their mother, she said, “it is time now to be off, my children, for the man is in earnest this time. He no longer trusts to others to do his work, but means to do it himself.”
   Self-help is the best help.

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Self-help is the best help.

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God helps those who help themselves.