The Updraught

Two children find a bird which seems to be listless and injured. They take it home, put it in a box and feed it, make a pet of it. The bird lives but still seems listless and sad. Eventually, their grandfather tells them that birds need to fly and be free, or else their lives are wasted - its what they were born to do, what the Creator made them for.

The children are a little bit sad but they understand. They take the bird back to the beach where they found it and let it out of the box.

The bird raises its head to the sky, flaps its wings and takes to the air - not much later, and it has found an updraught that carries it high, and higher still.