The Wolf And The Goat

Once a wolf saw a goat atop a hill and said, "Come down here , Miss Goat! The grass here is greener and longer."

"Thank You," answered the goat , "the grass down there may be much better. But, if I come down you will get a good meal. So, I prefer to stay here - where you can't reach. At least I am quite safe."

A MONKEY AND TWO CATS

Once upon a time two cats found a piece of cheese and cut it into two pieces. But one piece was slightly bigger than the other. Both the cats wanted the bigger piece. 

Then they went to a monkey and asked to sort out the matter. The monkey said, "Don't worry. I'll make both the pieces equal." 

Then it took a bite from the bigger piece. But this made the other piece larger. So it took a bite from the other piece. This continued till the pieces became very small. 

Seeing this, the cats pleaded, "Sir! We are satisfied. Let us have the pieces now." The shrewd monkey replied, "This is my fee for sorting out the problem." 

Saying this, it gobbled up the remaining cheese.

The Goose with the Golden Eggs

Once upon a time, a man and his wife had the good fortune to have a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough.

They imagined that if the bird must be able to lay golden eggs, its insides must be made of gold. And they thought that if they could get all that precious metal at once, they would get mighty rich very soon. 

So the man and his wife decided to kill the bird. However, upon cutting the goose open, they were shocked to find that its innards were like that of any other goose!

HIGH RANK NEEDS A HIGH SENSE

One day, all the animals of a forest gathered to choose their king. The monkey danced such gay abandon there that everyone felt delighted. 

So, his name was proposed for kingship. Everyone voted in his favour and he became the king. But the fox couldn't tolerate the monkey rising to a high position. 

He felt envy of him and decided to humiliate him. One day, the fox was roaming around searching for food and saw a trap laid by some hunter. 

It had a piece of meat in it as bait.The fox was intelligent enough to stay away from the trap. But he was sure that monkey wouldn't. So, he approached the king and brought him to the trap. 

The fox then said, 'Here is a dainty piece of meat, sir! As a true subject of yours, I didn't touch it. So, enjoy it Your Honour!"

The monkey extended his hand for the meat and got trapped. The fox then laughed and said, "Kingship needs a lot of wisdom, sir!"

THE WIND AND THE SUN

Once the Wind came to have a false pride of his strength- so much that he challenged the strength of the Sun.

The Son tried to smile away the Wind's challenge but the Wind insisted on a trial of strength. The trial was to be upon a traveler. 

He, who would make the traveler put off his coat, was to be the winner. The Wind had the first attempt. He gathered all his force and came down upon the man trying to blow off his coat off his body. 

But the man felt colder and wrapped it even harder round himself. Now it was the Sun's turn. The Sun shined brightly. As obvious, the man felt quite hot and put off his coat.

So, the Sun came out to be a winner.

WISE ARE SELDOM TAKEN IN

There were a large number of birds in an aviary. They were well protected over there. Unluckily, an infectious disease broke out in the aviary. 

As a result, most of the birds fell ill.The keeper felt worried and went looking for a doctor. The time, he was enquiring for a doctor, a cat overheard his talk from which she came to know that the birds in the aviary were unwell.

So, the wicked cat started making plans to reach the aviary someway or the other as she knew that, once inside, she could easily kill many birds and eat them up. 

Thinking hard, she decided to enter the aviary as a doctor. So, she disguised herself as a doctor, took up a chest of medicines and approached the aviary door. 

The wicked cat asked the birds, "How are you? I have come here to cure you. Here are the medicines for your treatment." Wisely, the birds replied, "We are quite all right and need no nursing. So, kindly leave us alone."

This way, the birds saved themselves from becoming the food of the wild beast.

AN OLD MAN AND AN ASS

Once an old man and his son were going to the market to sell an ass. They walked along beside the ass. 

A passer-by commented, "How foolish you are! Why don't you ride the ass instead of walking along?" At this, the old man lifted his son onto the ass. 

A little further, another traveler said to the boy, "You rascal! How can you ride the ass, when your old father trudges along?"  The son felt ashamed and made his father sit on the ass.

Then they came across a third person, who was shocked that the old man was riding the ass while his little son walked.The father and the son then tied the ass's legs together and carried it on a pole. 

This amused everyone present there. Angry at being mocked at, they threw the ass into the river. 

Another man, who saw this, saved the ass and took it home.

WHO IS BETTER ?

One day, an argument occurred between a monkey and an elephant about who was better among them. They both went to a lion for settlement. 

The lion said, "Go across the river. There you will find a mango tree. Whosoever, gets a mango from there will be considered better?"

Both went to the river. The river current was very strong. The elephant mocked the monkey, "Sit on my back. I will take you across the river." On reaching across the river, the monkey jumped on the tree and plucked a mango. 

Then he mocked at the elephant, "Now say who is better. Had I not been there, how would you have plucked the mango?"

They both returned to the lion and told their stories. The lion said, "You both are better in your own ways."

THE INNOCENT MAN

One day, a motorist was arrested for driving at a very high speed. He was presented before the judge. 

The judge asked him, "Do you want to say something?" 

The motorist said, "Sir, I am innocent."

The judge asked, "Didn't you read the traffic signboard, 30 km/hr?"

At this, the motorist said, "Sir, how could I have read that message when I was driving at the speed of 60 km/hr?"

BLIND IMITATION IS BAD

One day, a saint while going somewhere with his disciples saw a pond full of fishes, on the way. He stopped there and started filling his mouth with fish. 

The disciples followed their guru. The saint said nothing to them and after some time moved ahead. Then they reached another pond, where there were no fishes. 

The saint stood at its shore and started taking out the fishes he had swallowed. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and also tried to vomit out the fishes, but after many attempts, they could only take out some dead fishes.

At this, the saint said, "Fools, when you didn't know how to keep the fishes alive in the stomach, then why did you imitate me?" Its truly said that never imitate anyone.

A FUSSY CUSTOMER

Once there was a man who was very fussy about food. One day, he felt like having some seafood and went to a restaurant and ordered some oysters. 

The man said to the waiter, "Please check that oysters are neither too large nor too small, neither too salty not too fried, neither too fat, nor too thin."

At this the waiter said, "Do you want them with or without pearls?"

The man realized that the waiter was taunting him and understood that one should not be so much fussy about things.

CONCENTRATION

One day, some youths went to a jungle to practice shooting. They kept few pots at a distance and targeted them. None of them could hit even a single pot. 

A saint who was watching them started laughing. One of them went to him and asked, "Why are you laughing? Do you know how to shoot?" 

At this, the saint took the gun and fired at the pots and smashed all of them one by one. The youths were amazed to see this and asked the saint if he was a magician. 

The saint replied, "I am neither a magician nor a sharpshooter. I just concentrated and the result is in front of you. One should always work with concentration."

The youths thanked him for the piece of advice.

A POOR LITTLE GIRL

Once, a rich lady, having no child of her own, decided, to adopt a girl child. For this, she gave advertisements in various newspapers. 

Many poor women came to sell their daughters to her. The rich lady gave some money to all girls and asked them to go to the market and buy their favourite things. 

On returning, all the girls showed the rich lady, the things they had bought. Most of them had bought ribbons, clothes and other things for themselves but one poor girl had bought a prayer book and a needle. 

The lady got impressed with the poor girl and adapted her saying that the girl really knew the essence of worship and hard work.

NEVER TELL A LIE

On his deathbed, a father advised his son to always speak truth. The son promised that he would never tell a lie. 

One day, while going to the city through a forest, he got surrounded by some robbers. One of them asked, "What do you have?" The boy answered, "I have fifty rupees."

They searched him but couldn't find anything. When they were about to go, the boy called out, "I am not telling a lie. See this fifty rupee note which I had hidden in my shirt.

The leader of the robbers felt pleased at the truthfulness of the boy, gave him hundred rupees as reward and went away.

POSITION HAS ITS VALUE

Once upon a time a goat was grazing near her master's cottage. All of a sudden, she saw green grass growing on the roof of the cottage. 

Deciding to enjoy it, she leaped onto the roof and started browsing the green shoots of the grass. Just then a wolf came there and seeing the goat, his mouth started watering. 

But he was unable to get to the roof of the cottage. So, he turned to go away to look for some other prey.

The goat saw the wolf licking his chops. So, she laughed in her sleeves and looked at him with jeering eyes. The wolf being helpless had to tolerate this mockery.

While walking away, the wolf looked up and said, "Young lady! Its not you who is mocking at me but it is the height at which you are standing. Your high position has given you your value."

FRIENDSHIP IS A STRONG WEAPON

It was hot summer. A lion went to a pool to drink water. Just then a pig also came there to quench his thirst. Both of them wanted to drink first.

They looked at each other with blood-shot eyes and attacked each other with so much anger that soon they started bleeding. Feeling tired, both stopped for a while to be fresh. 

Suddenly, they heard the screams of vultures. They saw that a large number of vultures were looking at them with longing eyes. In no time, both the beasts understood that the vultures were waiting for one of them to be killed by the other so that they might feed on his dead body.

So both of them became friends, quenched their thirst and went away.

Thus, their friendship saved their lives.

NEVER PRETEND WHAT YOU ARE NOT

Once there was a crow that lived near a farm-house. The owner of the farm had kept some pigeons and he fed them with grains regularly. 

The crow looked at the pigeons and envied them everyday. Deciding to share the feed, the crow painted his body like that of pigeons and joined the pigeons as one of them. 

Thus, he was able to enjoy the feed daily. The pigeons never suspected anything foul. But one day, after the feed, the crow couldn't control himself and started crying. 

The pigeons came to know that he was not one of them. They pecked at his body so mercilessly that he started bleeding. 

The crow flew away to save his life and went straight to his own brethren- the crows. But because of his painted body, they refused to accept him. So, he was forced to flee in order to save himself and became a homeless wanderer.

So, don't pose what you are not because affectation seldom works.

EXCESS OF ANYTHING IS BAD

Once upon a time there was a pasture near the edge of a forest. Shepherds of the nearby villages came there with their flocks. 

While the flocks grazed, the shepherds spent their time playing various games.At the end of the pasture, there was a big tree having a big hollow but with a narrow opening to get in. the shepherds used to put their lunch packets in that hollow. 

In the afternoon, they took them out and enjoyed their mid-day meals together.One day a hungry fox happened to come that way. 

He got the flavour of lunch packets and followed it to reach the hollow. His belly was sunk inside due to hunger. 

So, he was able to get inside the hollow without much difficulty.He ate up the contents of all the lunch packets. His belly puffed up on both sides and he was not able to come out of the hollow. 

Soon the shepherds came there for their lunch packets. They found the fox there and gave him a sound beating.

SAY THE TRUTH BUT DON'T HURT ANYONE'S FEELINGS

Jupiter, the chief of gods, was getting married. He decided to celebrate the event by hosting a reception. He invited all the animals living on land and in water to attend the banquet.

All the animals came to attend the feast but the tortoise didn't come. Jupiter was surprised at his absence.

After few days, Jupiter came across the tortoise and asked him, "Why didn't you attend the banquet held in honour of my marriage? Were you all right?" 

The tortoise retorted, "I am a stay-at-home type of an animal and never care to attend petty affairs. Why should I trouble myself when there is no place like home?"

Though, the tortoise said something very true, but the way he said it was very hurting. Jupiter felt pinched and cursed the tortoise, "Now, you will always carry your home on your back and never be able to unload it."

Till today, every tortoise carries his home with him.

A FOX AND A GOAT

It was a hot summer day. A fox and a goat were very thirsty. Looking around for a place to quench their thirst, they came across a well that had very little water in it. 

They both were so thirsty that they got down into it and quenched their thirst. Having had their fill, the goat wondered how they would get out of the well.

The fox said, "Don't worry. You leave that to me. All you have to do is stand firm, while I'll climb up with your help. Once I get out, I'll pull you up."

The goat unaware of the fox's shrewdness, agreed and soon the fox was out. Once out, it went its way, leaving the poor goat behind.