Once upon a time there was a husband and a wife with seven children. Although the father was a farmer the family starved to death because of a great famine. One night, while the children were sleeping, the father said:

My Wife, this is not a life that can be borne: I am heart –broken by seeing our poor children starve to death.

What can we do?

Tomorrow when I go into the woods I’ll take them with me and leave them there.

The youngest of the seven children, called Chick, was not asleep, and had heard everything.

Chick put all the white stones that he found along the way in his pocket, and when they entered the forest he sowed a white stone at every step to mark the trail. In the heart of the forest the seven children’s dad left them alone. 

The seven children screamed and cried but Chick said: Now I’ll find the way and we'll go home. They followed the white stones dropped in the woods and they got back home.              

Now I’ll find the way and we'll go home.