"Don't go near the well! Don't play round
it! Mother Hen said to her children.
And they never came to the well. But once a little chicken ran to the well and
stopped there.
"Why is the well so bad?" he thought. "I am here and everything
is all right with me. Let me see what is in the well."
And he jumped up to look into it. And what did he see there? He saw another
chicken! Our chicken turned his head; the other chicken in the well did the
same. The chicken jumped; so did the chicken in the well. He became angry with
the chicken in the well and decided to have a fight with him. He jumped down
into the well. But there was no chicken to fight with, but only water and water.
He cried, "Help me, help me!" But nobody heard him. He went down under
the cold w