The Boy and the Fire Drill : หน้า 54/130

Then the boy chopped the fire drill with the hatchet, thinking : - " Perhaps that's how I shall get fire." No fire got he. He split the fire drill in twain, in three, four, five, ten, a hundred pieces, he made it into piecemeal, he then pounded it in a mortar, and winnowed it in the wind, thinking that so he might perhaps get fire. No fire got he. Then the Jatila, having accomplished his business, came back to his own hermitage and said to the boy : - "Why, child, you have let the fire out !" "Father, the fire went out because I was busy at my game. Then I thought of what you had told me, and I set about rekindling it. And I chopped the fire drill with the hatchet to get fire, but no fire came. And I went on till I had smashed the fire drill into atoms, pounded it in a mortar and winnowed it in the wind, but I never got any fire !" Then the Jatila thought : - " How silly, how unintelligent is the lad ! Why will he be seeking fire in this senseless manner ?" And while the boy looked on, he took a fire drill, and making fire said to him :- "This is how to make fire, my lad. One doesn't try to get it as you, so silly and unintelligent, were trying."