Stories · By the Water

The Young Gull and the Net-Mender

12 min · England · Wisdom · Kindness

In a quiet coastal village at dawn, a restless young gull unties what the fishing families have carefully arranged, until an old net-mender shows him, without a single word of blame, that the village’s order is not a cage but a woven thing, in which every knot holds because the others do.

Retold from Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling.

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Story 13 of By the Water, starting at 2:42:26.