Two children were walking through a dense wood chatting about this and that. In the wood lived a harmless, yet weird, old man. On this occasion his mischievousness prompted him to wait till the children were quite near, then make all sorts of noisy sounds with the intention to spook them. It certainly worked and the poor children ran as fast as they could in the direction of the brightest light. This brought them out into the open by the banks of a river where a road crossed it by means of a ferry. It was not very busy and the ferryman was sitting there playing a puzzle on his phone. The children asked him how to get back home to which he replied with a sour face "My job is to scows the vehicles back and forth, back and forth, from dawn to dusk; it's not to direct lost children." The poor children looked crest-fallen whereupon the ferryman grinned "I'm sorry to tease you. I can certainly help you. Any moment farmer Ted will be along with his tractor. He's going your way and I'm sure he'll give you a ride up in his tractor cab". Sure enough farmer Ted came along and the children climbed up into the cab. As farmer Ted drove along he remarked. "From up here I shows you all sorts of things you wouldn't know from down low in your cars." He pointed out the fields he managed, where the cows drank from and all sorts of other things. As he dropped them near their homes he said "Now when you grow up, don't you scoff at us farmers - ours is a hard, difficult job and if it wasn't for us you'd have little to eat."
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