The Bubble, the Straw, and the Shoe

Once upon a time, there lived a bubble, a straw, and a bast shoe.
They went to the forest to chop wood. They reached a river and didn’t know how to cross it.

The bast shoe said to the bubble:
"Bubble, let’s swim across on you!"
"No, bast shoe! Let the straw stretch from one bank to the other, and we’ll cross over it."
The straw stretched from one bank to the other. The bast shoe started walking across the straw, but it broke. The bast shoe fell into the water.
And the bubble laughed and laughed until it burst.

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