Pierre qui roule

[Annie Jourdain]

His name was Pierre and he was three years old. "Pierre" means "Stone": his mother gave him a stone, a white stone, a very big stone, so big that he could not carry it. Every month, he tried to lift it because he knew that, when he was strong enough to do so, he would no longer be a child. One day, perhaps he was ten, perhaps twenty or even more, he took the stone just to play with it and discovered it was so light that he could run with it in his arms. Pierre run and run and is now lost for ever.