Story 30       Mike and the Pot
  One day, Mike’s mother needed a pot. She asked Mike to borrow one from her friend. So Mike went to the friend’s house. She gave him a big pot. On the way home Mike put it down on the road and looked at it. It was made of clay and had three legs.
  Then he said to the pot, “You have three legs and I have only two. You can carry me for a few minutes.” Then Mike sat down inside the pot. But the pot didn’t move.
  Mike got angry and broke it then carried the broke pot home. His mother was angry. “You are stupid.” She said. But Mike thought, “I’m not stupid. Only a stupid person carried something with three legs.”

故事30  邁克和鍋
  一天，邁克的媽媽需要一口鍋，她讓邁克向她朋友借一口鍋。于是，邁克去了她的朋友家，她的朋友借個他一口大鍋。在回家的路上，邁克把鍋放在路上看了看它，它是一口粘土制成的三條腿的鍋。
  然后他對鍋說：“你有三條腿而我只有兩條腿。 你應該背我一會兒。”然后，邁克坐在鍋里，但是鍋一動也不動。
 邁克很生氣地把鍋打破了，但后拿著破鍋向家里走去。到家后他的媽媽很生氣地說：“你真笨。”但邁克認為：“我不笨，只有愚蠢的人才會帶回三條腿的鍋。”