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Lion and Elephant gather the animals to decide on digging a well, and the community works until water is finally found. Hare arrives late, drinks and plays, and leaves the well full of mud. The next day the animals discover the damage and suspect Hare of sabotaging the rescue plan.","The Animals Dig a Well  \nIllustrations by João Carlos Brito  \nAn Adaptation of a traditional Mozambican folktale  \nEnglish Story Book  \nThe Animals Dig a Well  \nA Traditional Story of the Manyungwes of Mozambic Illustration: João Carlos Brito Adapted By: Traditional Mozambican folktale  \nEnglish  \nAnimals dig a well  \nIllustrations: João Carlos Brito  \nAn Adaptation of a Traditional Mozambican folktale  \nCopyright © 2015, Little Zebra Books  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nIt happened one year that the rain didn’t fall. The trees dried up and died. The rivers disappeared and the water evaporated. People and animals began dying from hunger and thirst.  \nLion and Elephant as the chief animals got together to discuss the situation . Lion said,“We’re going to end up dying from thirst. Let’s call everyone together and discuss the idea of digging a well. Elephant agreed and went off to spread the news to all the animals.  \nAll the animals except the hare got together to discuss the situation. Lion said,“Look, my brothers and sisters, this year, the rain has not fallen . Everyone is dying from hunger and thirst. Let us now make a plan to dig a well so that we might all be able to drink from it.”  \nAll the animals agreed and immediately grabbed hoes, shovels and picks and started digging. They dug and dug. And they dug some more . Finally they hit water. Lion said,“Why did Hare not come to dig this well? He most certainly will not drink from this water!”  \nLater Hare came and saw the well. He said,“Tipite, tipite at the well!” He heard nothing. So he went in, drank some water and splashed around for a while.  \nThe next day, when the animals came they saw that their well was a big mess . The water was nothing but mud. They asked,“Who would do such a thing?”  \nSomeone said,“I bet it was Hare. When we were digging the well he was nowhere to be found.”","cbCaik6H9KzXQNes","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik6H9KzXQNes","pdf",19144485,20,"English","en",105,"# Story Outline\n## The drought and the crisis\n## The decision to dig a well\n## Hare’s arrival and the mud-filled water\n## The animals’ discovery and blame","[{\"question\":\"Why do Lion and Elephant call the animals together?\",\"answer\":\"Rain fails for a year, causing hunger and thirst that leads to widespread dying. 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