ONE
The Golden Egg
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Once upon a time there lived a cloth merchant in a village with his wife and two children. They were indeed quite well-off.
They had a beautiful hen which laid an egg everyday. It was not an ordinary egg, rather, a golden egg. But the man was not satisfied with what he used to get daily.
He was a get rich-trice kind of a person.
The man wanted to get all the golden eggs from his hen at one single go. So, one day he thought hard and at last clicked upon a plan.
He decided to kill the hen and get all the eggstogether.
So, the next day when the hen laid a golden
egg, the man caught hold of it, took a sharp
knife, chopped off its neck and cut its body
open. There was nothing but blood all around
& no trace of any egg at all. He was highly
grieved because now he would not get even
one single egg.
His life was going on smoothly with one egg a day but now, he himself made his life
miserable. The outcome of his greed was that he started becoming poorer & poorer day by day and ultimately became a pauper. How jinxed and how much foolish he was.
[b]Moral: One who desires more, loses all. One should remain satisfied with what one gets.[/b]
TWO
Fox and The Goat
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Once a fox was roaming around in the dark.
Unfortunately, he fell into a well. He tried his
level best to come out but all in vain. So, he had no other alternative but to remain there till the next morning. The next day, a goat came that way. She peeped into the well and saw the fox there. The goat asked “what are you doing there, Mr. Fox?”
The sly fox replied, “I came here to drink water. It is the best I have ever tasted. Come and see for yourself.” Without thinking even for a while, the goat jumped into the well, quenched her thirst and looked for a way to get out. But just like the fox, she also found herself helpless to come out.
Then the fox said, “I have an idea. You stand on your hind legs. I’ll climb on your head and get out. Then I shall help you come out too.” The goat was innocent enough to understand the shrewdness of the fox and did as the fox said and helped him get out of the well.
While walking away, the fox said, “Had you
been intelligent enough, you would never have got in without seeing how to get out.”
[b]Moral: Look before you leap. Do not just blindly walk in to anything without thinking.[/b]
