A goatherd, driving his animals from their pasture to sunset, found that some wild goats had mingled with them. He shut up together with his own goats for the night. In the morning it snowed very hard. He could not take the herd from the fold to their usual feeding-place. He gave his goats just enough food to keep them alive but fed the strangers handsomely, in the hope of enticing them to stay with his flock.
When the thaw set in he led them all out to feed and the wild goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The goatherd accused them of being very ungrateful for leaving him, when during the blizzard he had taken more care of them than he had of his own goats. One of the wild goats turned out and called back: "That is the very reason why we are leaving you. As you treated us better than the goats you have hand so long, it is clear that if others came after us, you would prefer them to ourselves."
This story teaches you that
“It is foolish to give up old friends in the hope of winning new ones.”
A kid sneaked off the herd to graze in the forest. He walked on and on until he was very far away from the herd. When it was evening, he started to walk back. On the way he met a fox. The kid was frightened and tried to run away. But the fox was faster and blocked his way. “Don’t try to run away. It is hopeless,” growled the fox. The kid stood still and thought of how to save himself.
Suddenly, he came up with a trick and spoke to the fox, “I have heard that you have a very beautiful voice.” “Now that I will be your food, let me have a chance to hear your voice.” When the fox heard the nice words, he began to howl. His howl was so loud that it reached the dogs that looked after the goats. The dog quickly ran towards the howl. When the dogs arrived, they tried to chase the fox away. The fox could not fight the dogs. He had to leave the kid behind and quickly ran away.
This story teaches you that
“A bad situation can be solved by wise thinking.”
Once upon a time, there was a man who loved to watch the star. Every night he would look up in the sky that was full of twinkling stars. Then he would wonder how the stars were born and how they were up in the sky.
He lost himself in the watching and did not pay attention to the direction he was going. His friends laughed at him when they saw what he was doing. “I think you should watch the stars on a tower instead of walking all around,” one of his friends warned him. “That’s right! You will miss your steps some day,” another friend said
The man did not care about his friends’ warnings. He continued to look up in the sky and watched the stars. Finally one night he stepped into a hole. The hole was very deep, and he could not climb up. So the man shouted very loud for help
Luckily, his friends who were walking by heard his voice. They shouted back, “Who is that?” “It’s me. The star watcher,” the man replied gladly. His friends laughed at him, “I have told you and see what you have got!” After that, the man never walked absent-minded again.
This story teaches you that
“The clever never ignores any warning.”
There were villagers who had a cock. They wanted it to wake them up at dawn. The cock was kept at the far end of the village. Not far away, there was a fox that was waiting for a chance to catch the cock.
One day, when there was no one around; the fox went to the cock. The fox said, “Handsome cock, do you know that your father and I are friends?” “I remember that your father’s crowing was beautiful; so, your crowing must be great too. Can you crow for me?” the fox asked.
Proudly, the cock agreed to crow for the fox. When the cock began to crow, the fox jumped up, held the cock in its mouth, and ran away. The cock was frightened and crowed louder for help. The villagers heard the voice. “Look, a fox is stealing our cock,” they yelled, took sticks and followed them
The cock saw the villagers coming to help, it said to the fox, “Do you hear what they said? They won’t let you take me” “Tell them that I am yours and they will stop following you,” the cock played tricks to the fox
Without thinking, the fox opened its mouth to shout At the moment, the cock flew away to the top of a tree. “What a fool you are. I’ll never be yours.” By then, the villagers caught up with the fox. They beat up the fox and brought the cock back. “Because of my silliness, I got hurt and lost my food,” the fox said sadly.
This story teaches you that
“Think carefully before act.”
Once upon a time, there was a forest where plenty of birds lived and built their nests on the trees. There lived many kinds of birds who always quarrelled with one another.
One day there was a rhinoceros walking into this forest and saw that there were a lot of birds on the trees. The rhinoceros who was hungry, banged a tree with his horn until a nest of the green bird fell down.
Then the rhinoceros ate the nestlings in that nest. The mother bird was very angry but she could do nothing. After the rhinoceros had ate all the nestlings, he walked away.
All the birds gathered and discussed their opinions. " The rhinoceros will surely come back again," said the red bird. "We must get together to drive him away."
"No, that rhinoceros is very big and strong," said the green bird. "I agree with you, we cannot drive him away," said a yellow bird.
Because these birds were used to quarrel among themselves, they did not agree to the red bird's idea. So no one prepared to fight against the rhinoceros.
With nobody agreed to the plan, the red bird and his mate discussed between them, "there is no other way but to help ourselves."
So, they moved their nest to a tree which was on a cliff where the rhinoceros would never reach.
The next day, the rhinoceros came to the forest and again used it's horn to bang a tree where the yellow bird lived. As a result, the yellow bird's nest fell down.
After that, the rhinoceros banged many other trees. Thus, a lot of nestlings and eggs became his food. All the bird regrets that they did not prepare to cope with the rhinoceros. On the other hand, the red bird's family remained safe as they were prepared for the expected danger.
This story teaches you that
“A careful person will be safe from any danger.”
A little deer was nibbling tender grass happily until he accidentally wandered into the lion’s region. The little deer saw the footprints of lions and felt scared. Because he had heard that lions were mean and would surely kill him. A lion walked past and saw the little deer trembling on the ground. The lion just walked past without paying attention the little deer but also wondering why the lion did not harm him. After a while another lion walked past the little deer slowly looked up. The lion also walked past him like the other lion without turning his face to see the deer. The little deer told his parents about his adventure.
This story teaches you that
“Foolishness make us scared”
There were two intelligent persons living in the same village. Both were very intelligent and clever. But one was a man, another was a woman.
One day, the intelligent woman had to marry a man. In those days, the parent arranged the marriage and their children had no right to refuse. The groom was a man that her parent chose to be her husband. They were engaged since they were very young. The intelligent woman did not agree to marry this man because he was very stupid, not as intelligent as her.
When the wedding day came, the intelligent woman could not marry the stupid man. So, at night, she went out to commit suicide by jumping into the river. The intelligent woman learned from the text that a beautiful and intelligent woman marrying a stupid man was like a beautiful flower on buffalo dung.
The intelligent man saw that the intelligent woman went out and was very sad. He knew immediately that she was going to commit suicide. So, he ran quickly to stop her.
The intelligent man arrived the river before the intelligent woman did. He disguised himself as the old man bailing the water out of the river. Once the intelligent woman arrived the river, it was already dark, so she could not clearly see the intelligent man. She thought he was an old man. She saw that he was bailing the water out of the river. She was amazed so, she asked “Why are you bailing the water out”
The intelligent man disguised his voice as that of old man and said “I want to cross to the other side, but I have no boat. I have to bail the water out until gets dry so that I can cross to the other side.”
When the intelligent woman heard the intelligent man’s words, she thought that even though her groom was stupid but there were a lot people stupider than him. So, she turned back home and did not want to commit suicide anymore. The intelligent woman married the stupid man. Her husband was a good man. He was a good child of his parent. Although he was not intelligent, she lived with him happily.
This story teaches you that
“The stupid but honest man is always appreciated.
The intelligent but crooked man is always hated.”
