The Hawk and The Crows: A Fable

a reply to: zosimov

I was thinking of putting this in recipes but then remembered this thread.
Honeysuckle: Harvesting the Sweet Nectar of Life

Butterfly and Honeysuckle

A boy was sucking nectar one day and saw a butterfly land on a flower and unroll its tongue to suck the nectar. Then it flew to another flower and then another.

As a test, the boy picked a honeysuckle which the butterfly had left. He pulled the style and saw that there was still some nectar left.

"Hmmm" he thought, "The butterfly drinks not deeply, and yet is filled a little here and a little there."

"Not quite a polymath, perhaps a polymath-lite."

"Wait! What? I'm just a boy! I don't know what a polymath is!"