Children Stories: The Not So Smart Mule

I remember back in the days, when I was a youngster and my mom used to read me bedtime stories. Now I tell my kids stories at their sleep time. Yesterday I told them the following story.

There was a farmer that lived in a small house in a little village along with his family. He had a big farm that he planted fruits and vegetables in, he also had two cows, few goats, a mule and a whole lot of chickens. The farmer sold the milk from his cows and goats, the eggs the chicken laid, and whatever fruits and vegetables he grew in his field for  a living. He always used his mule to carry whatever goods he wanted to sell or any goods he bought to and from the village's market on the other side of the river that separated his farm from the rest of the town.

Once the farmer bought 2 bags of 100 pounds of sugar that he loaded on the mule's back to bring them back home. While, the farmer and the mule were crossing the river, the mule tripped, its knees buckled causing the sugar bags to go under water. Most of the sugar melted in the water. The mule was so happy because his load became much lighter, but the farmer wasn't too happy about losing his sugar. Few days later, the farmer was back in the market to buy some cotton. As usual, the 2 huge cotton bags were loaded on the mule's back. Even though the bags were very big, the cotton was very light. Once in the river, the mule remembered how hid load got lighter when the sugar melted in the water, so it decided to get it's cotton load under water thinking it  was going to become lighter. But, as soon as it did that, it realized that the load became way heavier than it was because the cotton absorbed a lot of water. The mule couldn't lift it's load any longer, and it almost drowned, had it not been for the farmer's quick thinking of dropping off the load into the river.

The mule almost lost it's life in the river because of what it did, and never ever tried to do the same again since that incident.
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