The Workhorse and the Unicorn
Written & Illustrated by Diane Graebner
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A Fable:
The Workhorse and the Unicorn
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Once upon a time, there was a unicorn.
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He liked to run and play and have fun.
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He also liked to look at himself. He would spend hours down by the lake, admiring his reflection.
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One day, while the unicorn was looking at himself in the water, an old workhorse came down to drink. "Ha ha," laughed the unicorn, "you sure are funny looking!" The unicorn shook his snow white mane and danced in the cool moss by the lake.
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The workhorse just hung his head.
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"Look at you," sang the unicorn, still dancing, "you are old and grey. Your back is sagging and your tail is drooping. I am young and beautiful. I prance and jump and toss my mane. I have a shiny gold horn. I am beautiful!"
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With that, the unicorn jumped up into the air, tossed his head, then disappeared. The old workhorse looked at himself in the water. "The unicorn is right," he sighed. "I am ugly. My nose is too big, my eyes are too small, and I have no shiny gold horn."
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Then he lay down in the mud by the lake, to cry himself to sleep. When he awoke, he heard a terrible scream.
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It was the unicorn! His shiny gold horn was caught fast in the gnarled trunk of an old oak tree.
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"Oh my horn, my beautiful horn," moaned the unicorn. "I will never be beautiful again." A silver tear rolled down the unicorn's soft, white nose.
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"The workhorse took a step forward to help the poor, entangled unicorn. Then he stopped. "Why should I help him?" he thought to himself. "After all, he did laugh at me."
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"Please help me," cried the unicorn, his nose wet with tears. "Oh please help me!"
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The workhorse began to feel sorry for the poor unicorn and rushed to help him. Soon, the unicorn was free, and although his horn was slightly bent, he wasn't in too bad a shape.
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The workhorse and the unicorn then went to the lake to drink together, as equals!
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The moral of the story is:
Beauty is only skin deep!
The End
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