The Fox and The Cat

A fox was boasting to a cat of its clever devices for escaping its enemies. "I have a whole bag of tricks," he said, "which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies."

"I have only one," said the cat; "but I can generally manage with that." Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming towards them, and the cat immediately scampered up a tree and hid herself in the boughs. "This is my plan," said the cat. "What are you going to do?"

The fox thought first of one way, then of another, and while he was debating the hounds came nearer and nearer, and at last the fox in his confusion was caught up by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsmen. Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said:

This story teaches you that
"Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon."

The Rat and The Frog

One day, a country rat wanted to go to town. He prepared himself and started his journey. It was hot on the way. So the rat was tired and thirsty. He then stopped near a big pond...to drink water for refreshing himself...and to find some fruits to eat. Near that pond, there lived a frog. When the rat saw the frog, he walked straight towards him. He forced the frog to take him to the other side of the pond. But the frog refused. The rat beat up the frog badly. So the frog had to give up and agreed to take him across the pond. The rat was afraid that the frog might leave him in the middle of the pond, so he tied his leg with the frog's leg. 

When they were in the middle of the pond, the frog stoped swimming, wanting the rat to drown. The rat tried to swim to save himself from drowning while the frog looked on with satisfaction. Meanwhile, there was a hawk flying by the pond and saw the two animals. The hawk grabbed both of them for his meal.

This story teaches you that

“Forcing and threatening others will cause sin to return to yourself.”

The Eagle and the Crow

A crow watched an eagle swoop down with majestic air from a nearby cliff, cliff descend upon a flock of sheep, and then carry off a lamb in his talons. The whole thing looked so graceful and easy that the crow was eager to imitate it. So, he swept down upon a large, fat ram with all the force he could muster and expected to carry him off as a prize. His claws became entangled in the wool ,however, and as he tried to escape, he fluttered and made such a commotion that he drew the shepherd's attention, enabling the man to seize him and clip his wings. That evening the shepherd brought the bird home to his family, and his children asked, "What kind of bird is this, Father?" "Well," he said, "if you were to ask him, he would tell you that he's an eagle. But if you will take my word for it, I know him to be nothing but a poor crow."
                           
This story teaches you that
  "Sometimes ambition can lead us beyond the limits of our power.”

The Bear and The Travellers

Two men were traveling together when one of them saw a bear suddenly charging towards them. Without warning his friend he quickly climbed into a tree and hid himself in the branches. 

The other, realizing the danger too late, fell flat on the ground and pretended to be dead as well as    he could. The bear come up and prodded him with his snout, sniffing him all over. The man held his breath and soon the bear ambled away, for it is said that they will not touch a dead body. 

When the other man was quite sure that the animal dad gone, he climbed down from the tree and walking over to his friend, asked him “Tell me, what did the bear whisper in your ear, my friend?”  Well, he gave me this advice “never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger.”
                               
This story teaches you that
“Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends”

The Lion and The Boar

The warm weather of a summer day made all the animals feel thirsty. Like other animals, the lion was going out to find some water to drink. The lion went straight to a small pond nearby. At the same time, a thirsty boar also walked towards the same pond. The lion and the boar faced each other beside the pond. Each wanted to be the first one to drink water. So they fought one another. Other animals who were nearby were frightened and ran away everywhere in confusion. The lion and the boar fought one another without giving up. Both were so tired and had no more strength. As they were about to fight again, they saw some vultures sitting on the branches and looking at them. "We'd better stop fighting," said the lion to the boar. "If not, we might become a meal for those vultures." The boar agreed at once and the lion let him drink from the pond first. When both had drunk to their full, each went their way

This story teaches you that
"Compromise can avoid danger"

The Lion and The Mouse

A lion was awakened from a very satisfying sleep by an impudent mouse running over his face. Rising up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him when the mouse cried out; “If you only spare me life, I will surly be able to repay your kindness one pay”

The lion laughed at the idea of a mere mouse ever being able to help him, because it was a nice day he decided to let him go free.

It so happened that shortly after this the lion was caught by some hunters who bound him with strong ropes and tied him to the ground.

The lion roared and roared with anger, and the mouse recognizing his voice, come up and gnawed through the ropes with his sharp teeth, When the lion was free, the mouse said to him; “You laughed when I said that one day I would be able to help you. But now you know that sometimes it is possible for even a mouse to help a lion”

This story teaches you that
"No one is too weak to do good."

The Ass and The Wolf

AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming up, inquired the cause of his lameness. The Ass replied that passing through a hedge he had trod with his foot upon a sharp thorn. He
requested that the Wolf pull it out, lest when he ate him it should injure his throat.

The Wolf consented and lifted up the foot, and was giving his whole mind to the discovery of the thorn, when the Ass, with his heels, kicked his teeth into his mouth and galloped away. The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of
healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?”

This story teaches you that
“Everyone has his trade.”

The Lion and The Mosquito

Once upon a time, a little mosquito was buzzing around a sleeping lion. The lion hit at the little mosquito. But the lion missed the mosquito and hit his own cheek.

Next, the little mosquito buzzed around the lion’s nose. The lion hit at the little mosquito. But the lion missed the mosquito and hit his own nose. The mosquito was very proud of himself and said to the lion, “You are king of the jungle, yet you are beaten by a little mosquito like me.” 

The little mosquito followed the lion into the jungle where there were many spider webs.
The little mosquito got caught in a spider web and could not get out.

“Fooey!” said the spider as he ate the little mosquito. “I wanted something better to eat, but it is better than nothing.”  The little mosquito beat the lion, but he could not beat the spider.

This story teaches you that
”Everyone has his own strengths and weaknesses. We must not easily let down our guard.”

The Fox and the Grapes

One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quote he.

Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.

Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."


This story teaches you that
 “It is easy to despise what you cannot get.”

The Cicada And The Ant

During the wintertime, an ant was living off the grain that he had stored up for himself during the summer.

A hungry cicada came to the ant and asked him to share some of his grain. The ant said to the cicada, "Why didn't you lay up food during the summer?"

The cricket replied, "I didn't have time. I was busy singing." The ant laughed at the cricket's reply, and hid his heaps of grain deeper in the ground. " Since you sang like a fool in the summer," said the ant, "you can try dancing in the winter!"


This story teaches you that
 "lazy, careless people who indulge in foolish pastimes, and therefore lose out."

The Miser

A miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. One of his neighbor observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it. The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.”

This story teaches you that
“Wealth unused might as well not exist.”

The Cock and The Jewel

A Cock was busily scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone; on which he said: "If they owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in they first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world."

This story teaches you that
"The ignorant despise what is precious only because they cannot understand it"

Mercury and The Woodcutter

Once there was a poor woodcutter. Every day he went out into the forest to cut wood. He sold the wood he had cut to the villagers, but he very little money for it . One day as he was cutting wood his axe fell into the river. He could not get it out.

He called out," Help! Help!" But no one heard him and no one came. Suddenly a boy with wings appeared before him. It was Mercury.God had sent him to help the poor woodcutter When he heard what had happened to the axe,he jumped into the river and came out with a silver axe in his hand .

" Is this your axe ?" he asked " No," said the woodcutter. Then Mercury jumped into the river again.

This time he took out a golden axe." Is this your axe ?" he asked." no” said the woodcutter. " My axe is not made of gold or silver.It is made of iron." So Mercury jumped into the river a third time.

This time he took out an iron axe.The woodcutter was very glad. It was his axe. Then Mercury said ," I see you are an honest man. Here is your iron axe. And I will give you the other two axes, too."

This story teaches you that
"Honesty is the best policy."




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The Fox and The Stork

At one time the Fox and the Stork were on visiting terms and seemed very good friends. So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and for a joke put nothing before her but some soup in a very shallow dish. 


This the Fox could easily lap up, but the Stork could only wet the end of her long bill in it, and left the meal as hungry as when she began. "I am sorry," said the Fox, "the soup is not to your liking." 


"Pray do not apologise," said the Stork. "I hope you will return this visit, and come and dine with me soon." So a day was appointed when the Fox should visit the Stork; but when they were seated at table all that was for their dinner was contained in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could not insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to lick the outside of the jar.  "I will not apologise for the dinner," said the Stork: 


This story teaches you that
"One bad turn deserves another."  

The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf

SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out,

"Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.

The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance.

The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.


This story teaches you that
“There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.”

One summer day, a little bee felt thirsty. It flew to a stream to drink water. In a hurry, it fell into the stream. The current in the stream was too strong for the bee. It tried to hold on something or it will get drown. The bee found nothing to hold on and let itself flow with the current. At that moment, there was a dove flew to the stream to drink water. As she came down, the dove saw the bee wearily struggled in the stream. The king dove hurriedly flew to pick a leaf and dropped it into the river. The bee caught the leaf and climbed on it. “Thank you very much for saving my life, I will never forget,” the little bee told the dove. Some days later, while the little bee was looking for food, it saw a hunter aiming his arrow at something. Then it saw the kind dove sitting on a branch of tree. The bee immediately stung the hunter’s hand making the crossbow fall of his hand. The dove was out of danger because of the bee whom she had saved his life. From that day, both became closed friends and helped each other ever after.

This story teaches you that
“One who does good will receive good in return.”

The Crow and Pitcher

A crow dying from thirst saw a tall pitcher and hoping to find water, flew to it eagerly. When he reached it, however, he discovered to this great distress that it contained so little water that he could not possibly reach it with his hort beack. He tried everything he could think of get at the water, but all his efforts were in vain.

At last he had an idea. Collecting many stones as he could carry, he bropped them one by one into the pitcher until he raised the water to the brim of the vessel, from which he could now drink in comfort.


This story teaches you that
 “Necessity is the mother of invention”

The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse

A country mouse lives in the countryside. He likes to eat fruits. He is happy. One day, his cousin comes from the town.

The country mouse gathers many fruits for the town mouse, but the town mouse does not like fruit. “This food is horrible!” he says. “Come to the town with me, life in town is much more fun.” So, the country mouse follows his cousin to the town. 

They come to a big house. They enter under the back door. The town mouse leads the country mouse to a dinning room.

The table is covered with food. They start to eat up the food. The country mouse is happy. “This food is delicious!” he says. Suddenly, there is a noise. The mice run to hide behind the food. “Keep very still,” says the town mouse. The country mouse is very afraid. A cat comes into the room. He looks around the room. The cat jumps up on the table. “Run!” cries the town mouse. The mice run into a mouse hole. “Good-bye, cousin” says the country mouse. “I am going back to the country. There, it is quiet and safe.”                  

This story teaches you that
 “It is better to live a simple, quiet life than a rich, dangerous one."

The Wind and The Sun

One day the wind and the sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveler coming down the road, and the sun said: “I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveler to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin.”


So the sun got behind a cloud. And the wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveler. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveler wrap his cloak round him, till at last the wind had to give in despair.


Then the sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveler, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on.


This story teaches you that
“ Kindness affects more than severity.” 

Androcles

Once upon a time Androcles, a slave,escaped from his master to the forest. As he was walking around there he found a Lion lying down and moaning. He turned to flee but he saw the Lion did not pursue him, so he turned back and went straight to him. The Lion put out his bloody and swelled paw, so Androcles found a big thorn had got into it which was the cause of all the pain. He decided to pull out the thorn. Then the Lion was able to stand up again because the pain had gone. He licked the hand of Androcles to think him for his kindness. Afterwards the Lion took Androcles to his cave and brought him food every day.
One day both Androcles and the Lion were captured. Androcles was judged to be the food of the Lion. The Emperor also came to see the punishment. At the middle of the arena Androcles stood alone. Then the Lion was let loose from his cage. He ran straight to his food but as soon as he came near ho could remember that the poor victim was Androcles,his beloved friend. He licked his friend's hand and fawned upon him like a dog.


The Emperor was surprised at this situation, so he called Androcles to him, Androcles told the Emperor the whole story. Afterthat he was freed and apologized, and the gratful Lion let looseto his forest.


This story teaches you that
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls” 

The Dog and The Shadow

Once upon a time a dog met a piece of meat unexpectedly. He gripped the meat in this mouth and went straight home to eat. On his way home while he was crossing a bridge over a brook, he saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. He misunderstood that it was another dog with another piece of meat double his own in size. With cupidity he wanted that meat also, so barked at the dog in the water threateningly to get his larger piece. But as he opened his mouth, the piece of meat fell out and dropped into the water. He lost both of meat in the water and his own.


This story teaches you that
“If you grasp at the shadow you will lose the substance”

The Frogs Desiring a King

At a beautiful lake the frogs were living peacefully for a long long time, but one day some of them thought that they should have a King to overrule them all. Thus they made up their mind to sent ambassadors to Jupiter asking for the King.

Jupiter laughed at their request and cast down a huge Log into the lake. The frogs were frighten at the splash, and all rushed to the depth of the lake. But after they saw that the huge Log did not move, they swam to the top of the water again. They climbed upon the Log and dance on it carelessly.

After some time they began to recognize that the King Log was too inert, thus they sent ambassadors to Jupiter again to send over them another ruler. Then he sent an eel to rule them. As the frogs found out the eel did not suit them, they sent the ambassadors the third time to Jupiter to give them another King. This made him very angry, so he sent a big stork who eat the frogs day by day until there were none left. Then the frogs knew when too late.


This story teaches you that
 “There is no ruler is better than cruel ruler.”

The Old Woman and The Wine-jar

One day an old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents.  She placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said,  "Oh most delicious! How nice must the wine itself have been,when vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume.


This story teaches you that.
"The memory of a good deed lives."

The Fox and the Goat

By an unlucky chance a Fox fell into a deep well from which he could not get out. A Goat passed by shortly afterwards, and asked the Fox what he was doing down there. "Oh, have you not heard?" said the Fox; "there is going to be a great drought, so I jumped down here in order to be sure to have water by me. Why don't you come down too?" The Goat thought well of this advice, and jumped down into the well. But the Fox immediately jumped on her back, and by putting his foot on her long horns managed to jump up to the edge of the well. "Good-bye, friend," said the Fox, "remember next time, 


This story teaches you that.
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." 

The Goose with The Golden Egg

Once upon a time a farmer going to the nest of his goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as hearvy as lead. He took it home and soon found that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew ; and thinking to get at once all the gold the goose give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.


This story teaches you that.
"Greed never gave anyone richness." 

The Hare and The Tortoise

One day in a big forest, a hare ridiculed a tortoise that he had the short legs and slow pace. When the tortoise heard that ridiculous words, he laughed and replied “I will beat you in a race, though you can run as fast as the wind.” The Hare believed in his speed and thought that it was simple impossible, so he assented to the proposal. They agreed that the fox should choose the course and fix the destination. 


On the day appointed for the race the hare and the tortoise started together at the course which the fox chose. The tortoise never stopped for a moment. He went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the destination. The hare ran faster than the tortoise, but when he nearly reached the end of the course he lay down carelessly by the wayside and fell fast asleep. At last the hare awaked up and ran as fast as he could. When he reached the goal he saw the tortoise was comfortably dozing after his effort. The tortoise had been the winner already. 


This story teaches you that.
“Slow but steady can win the race” 

The Vain Jackdaw

The god Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. 


When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. 


But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.


This story teaches you that
“Fine feather don’t make fine birds”

The Viper and The File

A viper one day slipped into a blacksmith’s workshop to took for some meals of satisfying his hunger.

Noticing a file, he asked him the flavor of a meal. The file replied:

“You must indeed be a simple minded felloe if you expect to get anything from me, who am accustomed to take from everyone and never give anything in return”

This story teaches you that
 “The covetous are poor givers” 

The Travelers and The Tree

Two Travelers, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun lay down at noon under the wide-spreading branches of a plane-tree. As they rested under its cool shade, one of the travelers said to the other:
“What a useless tree this is! It bears no fruits, and is not of the slightest use to man,”
The plane-tree interrupting him, said;
“You ungrateful fellows! Do you, while resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless and unprofitable?”
                           
This story teaches you that
“Some men do not recognise their best blessings” 

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