The Clever Crow and the Pebbles

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On a dry summer day in the countryside, a thirsty crow named Kaka flew over empty fields and cracked earth. His throat felt like dust. He looked for a puddle, a stream, even a drop of dew — but the sun had taken them…

Theme · Patience and clever thinking can solve hard problems.

Source · Traditional Telugu children's / moral tales (Pillalakathalu / Chinni Kathalu / Baala Neeti tradition) · WonderPages soft retelling for ages 6–8. Traditional public-domain plot; not a verbatim OCR dump from DLI scans.