THE BOY AND THE NUTS.

Once there was a greedy little boy. He saw some nuts in a pitcher. He put his hand into the pitcher. “I will take a big handful,” he said. But he could not take out the handful of nuts. He did not wish to drop the nuts. At last he began to cry. Just then his mother came into the room. “Why are you crying?” she said. “I can not take this handful of nuts out of the pitcher.” “Take one nut,” said his mother. “Then you can get your hand out.”