Chicken Little was running down the road, as you may recall, shouting his warning, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! I must go tell the king!"

He passed a small sparrow who, upon hearing Chicken Little's cry, flopped down upon its back with its feet in the air.

"What in the world are you doing, young sparrow? Don't you know that the sky is falling?" asked Chicken Little.

Still on his back with his feet in the air, the sparrow answered, "One does what one can!"