A small chick pecks at corn one morning until an acorn falls on her head. Startled, Henny Penny, better known in America as Chicken Little, concludes, “The sky is falling!” She believes the world is ending. She drops everything and rushes off to tell the king.
Along her journey, she meets others — Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey. She tells her tale; they join her mission. They never make it to the king, however, because sly Foxy Woxy leads them into his lair and eats them (as many versions tell it).
Moral of the story? Some answer, “Be courageous with your convictions.” Others reply, “Avoid hysterical theories of the world’s ending.”
Contrast the Christian story.
