Sarah V

I'm kind of glad that I decided NOT to put people's last names.  Sarah has a really long one I still can't spell. 

Not a lot of detail to go along with this one because I try very hard not to be snarky.  So I will tell this story instead:

The Little Dutch Boy

by Peter Miller

 http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/little_dutch_boy.html

 

Dutch legend has it that there was once a small boy who upon passing a dyke on his way to school noticed a slight leak as the sea trickled in through a small hole. Knowing that he would be in trouble if he were to be late for school, the boy poked his finger into the hole and so stemmed the flow of water. Some time later a passerby saw him and went to get help. This came in the form of other men who were able to effect repairs on the dyke and seal up the leak. 

This story is told to children to teach them that if they act quickly and in time, even they with their limited strength and resources can avert disasters. The fact that the Little Dutch Boy used his finger to stop the flow of water, is used as an illustration of self-sacrifice. The physical lesson is also taught: a small trickle of water soon becomes a stream and the stream a torrent and the torrent a flood sweeping all before it, Dyke material, roadways and cars, and even railway tracks and bridges and whole trains.

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My mom read this story to me when I was little.  I remember it being all about the boy.  He was the hero.  Now that I'm an adult, I know that kid would have been screwed about ten different ways if somebody hadn't wandered along and helped.

Sarah, thanks for wandering along.  My fingers aren't that big.