A hen came to the river every day. She drank
water there.
One day the crocodile saw her and came up to her. He wanted to eat her up.
But she cried, "Oh, do not eat me, my dear brother!"
The crocodile let her go: he could not eat his sister!
The next day, when the hen came to the river again, the crocodile decided to eat
her up.
But again the hen cried, "Oh, do not eat me, my dear brother!"
And again the crocodile did not eat her.
But he thought: "How can I be her brother? I live in the water, and she
does not."
Then the crocodile went to his friend, a lizard.
"Oh, my friend! A big hen comes to the river every day and when I want to
catch her, she says that I am her brother. How can that be?"
"Oh, my silly friend!" the