Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Snake's Big Meal

The snake looking for food heard croaking of frogs at a distance and moved in that direction. By the river it saw a frog sitting on a rock and croaking loudly. Moving stealthly, the snake positioned itself behind the frog, raised its head and readied itself for the strike and was about to attack, when it saw another frog join the first one and both were croacking loudly looking at the river. The snake on seeing the second frog thought it should wait for some more time and expected more frogs would join them, and dreamt of a big meal. Just as it was dreaming of a big meal, both the frogs jumped and disappeared into the river. The snake cursed itself for its wishful thinking.

Monday, April 6, 2009

New Nest Or Old Nest?

A group of wild-buffaloes were resting under a mango tree at noon when they found a crow bringing dry leaves and grasses to build its nest. One buffaloe in the group asked the crow why it was building a new nest when there were so many abandoned and unclaimed nests available in good condition all over the forest. A fox nearby on hearing the buffaloe's question laughed and said the crow must be really stupid for working so hard to build a new nest when so many other nests were available for free. The crow felt irritated and insulted by the fox's comment and said,
" I can't use other's nest, because I didn't build them."

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

In Search Of The River

Not knowing where it was the tortoise went randomly looking around the forest. All that the tortoise knew since its birth was the river and its surroundings from where it was fished out by villagers and happend to fall out mid-way from the bag in which it was being carried.

As it wandered, it came across a butterfly sitting on a bush and asked the butterfly if it knew the way to the river. The butterfly said it had no idea where it was before flying away.

Still wandering, it came across an almost sleepy fox. The tortoise asked the fox for the direction to the river. The fox which had returned to its place after a heavy meal was irritated for being woken up from sleep. The fox replied "Listen, my stomach is full and I want a good sleep, don't disturb me. Two, this is my territory and I don't like animals like you intruding into my space. Go away before I get hungry else, you won't be alive to ask questions". The tortoise began to leave, before the fox could get any more angry.

The tortoise walked without a break for a long time and came across a rabbit cautiously eating a nut under the cover of a bush. The tortoise asked the rabbit the direction to the river, which it said, was its home. The rabbit replied in negative,
however invited the tortoise to its burrow, which the tortoise accepted.

Before taking the tortoise to its burrow, the rabbit tiptoed over to a boulder nearby, peeped down and expressed a sigh of relief when it found the fox sleeping on the ground at the end of the slope. It then signaled the tortoise to its burrow which was under a tree nearby.

While it rained outside, the rabbit shared its food with the tortoise. The tortoise rested for a while in the burrow before commencing its journery in search of the river.

As it emerged from the burrow the tortoise was surprised to find the fox resting on the dry ground under the tree. The rabbit laughed and said the fox's territory must be wet or under water after the rain, hence had moved to dry ground from below. The fox on finding the tortoise and rabbit near the burrow attacked them immediately, while the rabbit was quick to withdraw itself into the burrow, the tortoise shrunk itself by withdrawing its limbs and head into its shell. The fox grabbed the tortoise by its teeth and tried its best to injure or eat it. However the tortoise's shell was too hard for the fox to do any damage, and in frustation dropped the shell to the ground and kicked it, the tortoise flew, rolled and finally landed in a stream of rain water flowing below.

The tortoise on finding itself in water paddled and swam with the current. The small stream as it flowed began to gain speed and strength before it merged into the river.

The tortoise was finally back in the river.

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