Three Billy Goats Gruff

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I wonder if everyone who responds to this will get the real meaning behind this. It has been many many years since I've heard the story and so I had to go refresh my memory via google. For those who have never heard of the story, essentially three billy goats go to cross a bridge. There is a mean old troll that lives under the bridge and threatens to eat the billy goats up for disturbing his slumber. The first two billy goats to cross were able to do so by being cunning. They tricked the troll into waiting for the last billy goat which was much bigger. The troll, with his big ego didn't think that he would be defeated by the billy goat. However, The troll ended up falling to his demise. If it had not been for the first two billy goats, cunning enough to seem meek and undesirable, the troll would have won. Of course nowadays there are entirely different types of trolls, but I still believe being meek wins out. *In this instance, you may want to think of the word meek as being not tiny but rather silent.