DEMILLE AND THE WATER BEETLE
Cecil B. DeMille, the famous motion- picture producer, was a man of great talents and keen insights. He liked to get off by himself at times to think out a problem. One such time when he was faced with some vexing personal problems, he went out in a canoe on a lake in Maine. After a while, the canoe floated inshore to a place where the water was only a few inches deep. Looking down he saw that the bottom was crowded with beetle-like bugs. As he watched, one of the water beetles came to the surface and slowly crawled up the side of the canoe. Finally, reaching the top, it grasped fast to the wood and died. DeMille soon forgot the beetle and his thoughts went back to his own problems. Several hour later, he happened to notice the beetle again and saw that, in the hot sun, its shell had become very dry and brittle. As he…
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