Showing posts with label Aesop's Fables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aesop's Fables. Show all posts

Jackal and the camel short story


Once upon a time there lived a camel and a jackal together in a deep forest. On the other side of the river flowing beside that jungle, there were fields having ripe sugar canes.


One day the jackal came to the camel with a plan to cross the river and enjoy the sugar canes. As he did not know how to swim, so he requested the camel to carry him on his back.

The camel agreed to the jackal's request. They set out for the river and soon reached its bank. The camel carried the jackal on his back and crossed the river. On reaching the other side, they began to eat the sugar canes.

The jackal was soon satisfied but the camel was yet hungry. The jackal began to howl loudly. The camel asked him not to do so but the jackal said that it was his habit to howl after meals. His howling attracted the attention of the farmers. They all reached the spot with long sticks. The jackal disappeared in a bush but the camel was badly beaten.

Now they were to go across the river to the other side of the bank. The jackal requested the camel to take him across the river.

The camel agreed to do so since he wanted to retaliate upon him. When the camel reached the middle of water, he began to roll in the water. The jackal told him not to do so. But the camel said that it was his habit to do so after meals.

As a result, the jackal slipped off the camel's back and fell into the deep water. He was soon drowned. He was rightly punished for his mischievousness.

Moral:

As you sow, so shall you reap?

Wolf in sheep's clothing moral story


Once upon a time there was a wolf lived in a deep forest. Certain the wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten. The next day, he dressed in that skin himself, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the sheep. Soon a little Lamb was following him for eating a good patch of grass besides of his heard. It was quickly led away to slaughter.

That evening the wolf entered the fold with the flock. But that day the shepherd took a lamb for sell it. The Shepherd at last sell the the the lamb. That evening his fellow picking up a knife for kill and get the mutton. He went to the fold its skin and he killed the lamb. But he saw after removing the skin it was killed the wolf.

Moral: The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

Ant and the dove story moral

Once upon a time there lived a dove with his family in the dense forest. It feels thirsty. He went to a nearby stream to drink water. At that time the dove saw an ant fall into that stream. The Ant struggled in vain to reach the bank, and in pity, the dove dropped a dry leaf close beside it. Climbing to the leaf like a shipwrecked sailor to a broken spar, the ant floated safely to shore.

Some times after, the ant saw a man getting ready to kill the dove with his arrow. But just as he cast the arrow, the ant stung him in the heel, so that the pain made him miss his arrow, and the startled dove flew away to nearby jungle.

Moral: Kindness is never wasted.

The Hare and His Horns

Once upon a time there was a Lion had been badly hurt by the horns of a Goat, while he was eating. He was very angry to think that any animal that he chose for a meal, should be so brazen as to wear such dangerous things as horns to scratch him while he ate. So he commanded that all animals with horns should leave his kingdom as soon as possible. he don't want to see them at all. 

The command struck terror among all the animals. All those who were so unfortunate as to have horns, started to move out of that jungle. Even the Hare, who has no horns and so had nothing to fear. He passed a very restless night, thinking about the fearful Lion.

He came out of the warren in the early morning sunshine, and there saw the shadow cast by his long and pointed ears. He was frightened to see this. Good by my dear friend cricket. I am going off. The cricket said that why are you leaving? You don't have horns you should stay here. He certainly point out that my ears are horns, no matter what I am. In the mean time lion came with a roar and killed the hare.

Moral: Do not give your enemies the slightest reason to attack your reputation. Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you.

The Frogs and the Fighting Bulls

There lived a group of frog in the march near a lake. One day two bulls were fighting furiously in a field, at one side of which was a marsh. An old frog living with his fellow in the marsh trembled as he watched the fierce battle.

What are you afraid of? asked a young child of the frog. "Do you not see," replied the old Frog, "that the bull that is beaten, will be driven away from the good forage up there to the reeds of this marsh, and we shall all be trampled into the mud?" We all will die with their fighting. So now we should leave this place for save our life.

It turned out as the Frog had said. The beaten Bull was driven to the marsh, where his great hoofs take the frogs to death.


Moral: When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it.

The Monkey and the Fishermen

Once there was a monkey was sitting up in a high tree when, seeing two fishermen laying their nets in a river, he watched what they were doing. At midday, the men went off to eat and left their nets on the river-bank, intending to use them again after lunch. The monkey came down from the tree, thinking that he would try his hand at the same sport and catch some fishes. 

But in attempting to lay the nets he got so entangled in them, that being well-nigh choked, he was forced to exclaim; said the monkey, now I have learnt that it is better to leave the task to those who know how to do. In the mean time two fishers came and rescue the monkey. Finally monkey leave that place and never came again. 

The Wolf and His Shadow: Aesop's Fables


Once upon a time there lived a wolf in a forest. One evening he was running in the sun shade.The setting sun cast his shadow far out on the ground, and it looked as if the wolf were a hundred times bigger than he really was.


"Why," exclaimed the Wolf proudly, "see how big I am! Fancy me running away from a puny Lion! I'll show him who is fit to be king. I will be king of this jungle.

He went to the lion and said I am bigger than you and come I will show you how much big I am? The lion replied o show me. Just then an immense shadow blotted him out entirely. He got scared and the next instant a Lion struck him down with a single blow.

Moral: Do not let your fancy make you forget realities.