Fred the donkey was always being told what to do by Farmer Phil. “Get your ass on the road!”, he would scream. “Move it!” All his life Fred was told how much of an ass he was, and quite frankly, he was sick of it. But still, he did what Farmer Phil told him to do because that was all he ever knew. One day Fred hauled a sled full of …

Dragging his legs along the ocean floor, the young octopus grew tired. “Why,” he thought, “must I be doomed with eight entire legs?” “Four legs,” he thinks, “would be plenty. Six, I could probably handle... But eight?”  Anyone who saw him would …