This story is told to children to teach them that if they act quickly and in time, even they, with their limited strength and resources, can avert disasters. The fact that the Little Dutch Boy used his finger to stop the flow of water, is used as an illustration of self-sacrifice.A physical lesson is also taught: a small trickle of water soon becomes a stream, and the stream a torrent, and the torrent a flood sweeping all before it.
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