Long ago when the Earth was new, there were ten suns in the sky. The  ten suns all rose at the same time, so the Earth was a very bright  place. But it was also very hot; very hot indeed!
It was so unbearably  hot that people, animals and plants suffered and died. The people who  were left wanted to find a way to kill some of the suns to reduce the  light and the heat so it was more comfortable.
Eventually, they found a  man who they thought could do the job. He was an archer, a very famous  archer.
His name was Dan.
Every day, Dan would shoot at the suns; he shot one arrow at every sun,  on the hour every hour. As the days passed, Dan became more and more  accurate and the suns became more and more nervous. They didn’t want to  be punctured! One day, the suns decided they had had enough of dodging  arrows and took themselves off to a world where their light and warmth  would be better appreciated.
Of course, without the suns’ rays it was very dark and very cold on the  Earth.
Nothing could live in the darkness and the people, animals and  plants began to die. The people realized how stupid and selfish they had  been and were very sorry. They begged the ten suns to come back and  shine their light and heat on the Earth.
But nothing happened.
Day after  day, the people shouted, prayed, set off 
fireworks, sang songs and lit  bonfires.
Still nothing happened; the suns stayed away.
One day, a cockerel thought he would try his drumstick at bringing the  suns back.
He began crowing as loudly as he could. He crowed and crowed  and crowed.
Now, it’s a well-known fact that suns have very sensitive  hearing and the racket that was coming from the Earth did nothing for  them. Nothing at all except for one sun. It was tone deaf and was  strangely attracted to the noise the cockerel was making. The sun peered  over the eastern horizon to better hear the cockerel’s calling. The  closer the sun crept the more the sun liked the sound. Eventually the  sun rose completely in the sky and it listened and it really did like  the cockerel’s song!
The light melted the darkness and the Earth warmed up. The people were  amazed and, there and then, made a bargain with the cockerel that he  should start crowing early every morning to attract the sun into the  sky.
In exchange, the people would look after and feed the cockerel and  his hens forever or, for as long as the cockerel sang for the sun.
And that, ladies, gentlemen, and children of the world, is why cockerels  crow every morning.
Not just to attract the sun, but to ensure there’s  an ample supply of corn.
Once a cockerel makes a bargain you can be sure  it’ll be kept.
Thankfully.
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