A cartoon illustration of a red hen, white duck, brown and white dog, and a striped cat standing in a grassy field with wheat bundles. Two trees frame the foreground, with a barn and farmhouse in the background under a sunny sky.

One sunny morning, the Little Red Hen found some grains of wheat. “Who will carefully help me plant the wheat?” she asked. “Not I,” said the Cat. “Not I,” said the Dog. “Not I,” said the Duck. What a lazy bunch they are! How unhelpful they can be! Come and help me now! But no one helped. So the Little Red Hen said, “Then I will do it myself.” And she did. See more