Boing Boing posted this very short children’s parable from an old storybook. It’s kind of strange and compelling. Take a look:

What do you think it means? Do you think it has a different meaning for parents and children? I see it as a parable of our society and culture, about to be hauled off to jail, so to speak, by Reality, after having indulged ourselves for so long. That’s not how it was written, but that’s how I read it.