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Once, a dog and a donkey were going to the town along with their master. At noon, the master unloaded the donkey and settled under a tree for a nap. The donkey started grazing. The dog also felt hungry. He asked the donkey, ” There are some loaves among the load you were carrying, please give one to me.”

The donkey said, ” Sorry! I can’t. Let the master wake first. He will feed you then.”

Just then a wolf came there. The donkey pleaded with the dog to help him. The dog replied, ” I am not strong enough to deal with the wolf. Let the master wake up. He will help you then.”

The donkey realized his folly and said sorry to the dog.

Once a dog was relaxing in a garden when it saw a cat on the top of a high wall. It thought, ” It must be so nice to be high above the ground. If only I could climb?” This feeling of eny made it so bad-tempered, that it didn’t even wag its tail at its master, who came to give it some milk.

Then it saw a goldfish in the river and wished that it too could live in the cold water.Envy made it angry once again.

Just then it heard the fish say, ” It looks so nice and warm on the grass. I wish I could lie down on it.”

After some time, a sparrow flew past. Seeing the dog lazing around, it said aloud, ” I wish I could play the whole day like this dog. I wish I didn’t have to build a nest for myself, search for food and tire my wings.”

Listening to them, the dog realized its folly for not appreciating what it had.

A deer was very upset with his wife as she always fought with him. One day, the doe left her abode and went to a nearby jungle and started staying with another deer.

Once, when they both were resting in a cave, they heard the roar of a lion. The doe said to the deer,” What shall we do now? This lion will kill us both?”

The deer replied, ” I am going my way. You take care of yourself.” The doe was taken aback at this. She recalled how her husband saved her many times from crisis.

She fled from the back of the cave and soon reached her deer. The deer felt very happy to see his wife back.

The doe realized her mistake and promised to behave.

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 then 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.

It was summer time and sun was very hot. A bull was sitting in the cool shade of a tree and chewing cud with his eyes half shut.

All of a sudden a goat came there and looked out for a place to sit under the shade. Silently, it sat on oneof the horns of the bull and kept sitting there till it had taken full rest.

Now, before leaving the goat wanted to show it’s shrewdness. It wanted to show the bull that it has used it’s horn as a seat without letting him know about it.

So, the goat asked the bull, ” Would you mind, if I go now?”

The bull replied, ” I hardly care when a tiny creature like you comes and goes away after resting on my body. If you would have thanked me for using my horn, it must have raised your importance in my eyes.”

The goat felt very small and went away

Once a swarm of bees had put up their hive in a tree that stood on the bank of a river. They remained busy collecting honey all the day. One day a bee felt thirsty and went to the river. As it tried to drink water, the water carried it away.So, it was about to drown.

Fortunately , a dove was sitting on the branch of a tree.

She saw the bee in trouble and immediately went for it’s rescue. She plucked a broad leaf from the tree, flew to the bee and dropped the leaf near it. the bee mounted the leaf, dried it’s wings and flew away to safety.

After few days, the dove was caught in a big danger. She was sitting on the branch of a tree when an archer aimed at it. She thought of flying away but a hawk was hovering above her head. She could see her death nearby.

Luckily , the bee came there. Seeing the dove in danger, it stung him. The arrow went off but missed it’s aim and hit the hawk instead and killed it. Thus, the dove was saved from death.

Once a rabbit was wandering in a forest when a dog saw it from a distance and made for it at the top of his speed. the rabbit, seeing the dog approaching it, took to its heels to save itself from being killed. as the dog was getting nearer and nearer the rabbit could not run anymore and hid under a bush.

In no time, the dog reached there and stood beside the bush. By now, the rabbit had taken food rest. so, it left the bush and ran to its burrow as fast as it could.

The dog, again chased it and overtook it just before it could enter its burrow. He licke the rabbit and at times bit it too. The rabbit could not understand why the dog was doing like that.

So, it asked the dog, ” Are you a friend or an enemy? If, a friend, then why do you bite me but if, an enemy, why do you caress me? Please, be single-faced.”

Once upon a time there lived four friends in a forest. they were very different from each other, yet , they were best friends and always came to each other’s aid when required. the friends were: a mouse, a crow, a deer, and a tortoise. This story of how these friends, who ordinarily would have been natural enemies helped each other against their biggest enemy – Man, who was a hunter.

One -day, the mouse, crow and deer were gossiping under a tree. they suddenly heard a scream. It was their friend, the tortoise ! He was trapped in a hunter’s net.

” Uh oh!” exclaimed the deer fearfully, ” What do we do now?”

” Do not despair” said the mouse. ” I have a plan” and the three friends huddled together and decided on their plan of action.

The deer ran towards the hunter who was close to the tortoise caught in the net. He reached there without the knowledge of the hunter, and lay down in his path as though dead. The crow flew towards the deer and acted as though he was pecking at the deer. the hunter picked up the net and started walking home, when he suddenly laid eyes on the wondrous sight of a dead deer. ” Hey, here is a deer, all ready for me” He thought and put down his net and walked towards the deer. the crow continued circling the deer, and flapping his wings furiously whenever the hunter tried to push him away. In the meantime, the mouse hopped to the tortoise and stasrted chewing the threads of the net and freed the tortoise. As soon as the crow saw that the tortoise was free, he led out a loud caw and flew away. the deer suddenly got up and ran. the hunter stood stunned and as he went back , he saw the tortoise has also escaped. ” If only I hadn’t been so greedy” he thought.

Once, on the feast day of Lord Garuda, the king of the birds, all the birds went on a pilgrimage to the sea shore.

Along with the others went a crow and a quail who had been friends for quite some time. On the way, the two birds saw a cow-herd, with a pot full of curd on his head, walking ahead of them.

The wicked crow, true to his nature, went after the man and kept dipping his beak into the pot and eating the curd.

When the crow saw this, he got frightened and immediately flew away. the slow quail was caught by the cow-herd and killed.

The quail should have known that the wisest thing to do is to shun evil company or one may come to grief.

A mouse was having a very bad time. She could find no food at all. She looked here and there, but there was no food, and she grew thin.

At last the mouse found a basket, full of corn. There was a small hole in the basket, and she crept in. She could just get through the hole.

Then she began to eat the corn. Being very hungry, she ate a great deal, and went on eating and eating. she had grown very fat before she felt that she had enough.

When the mouse tried to climb out of the basket, she could not. She was too fat to pass through the hole.

” How shall I climb out?” said the mouse. ” Oh, how shall I climb out?”

Just then a rat came along, and he heard the mouse.

” Mouse,” said the rat,” if you want to climb out of the basket, you must wait till you have grown as thin as you were when you went in.”