
One day, Little Joe was walking across the field. He saw a big rock, and he decided to take it home with him. The next day, Little Joe was excited, so he told his mom about the rock. She said, "That's nice, Joe, but it is not yours. You must return it to the field, where you received it yesterday." 
Joe was disappointed, but he knew his mom was right. So he carried the rock back to the field and placed it where it had been before. 
Every day after that Little Joe would walk across the field. Little Joe never took another rock from the field but he noticed that his regular visits to the field made the animals who live there happy. They even began to cheer whenever he would come. 
Little Joe knew he had done the right thing. He learned that it is always best to respect the land around him and not to take things away that don't belong to him.
