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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.”
 

There was once a miser who melted all his money into a block of gold and buried it in a pit. Every day he would dig it up and smile to see it.

One night the gold-block was stolen. So, the miser was in tears. A friend of his saw him weeping and said, ” You should bury a stone in the pit and look at it every day. You never spent money when you had it. Was it better than a stone anyway ?”

MORAL : It is a cause to be a miser.

One day, a crow found some grapes and sat on the branch of a tall tree to eat them. At that moment a cunning and hungry fox was walking by. “Mmmm! What a tasty smell,” the fox said, looking up to see where the smell was coming from. “Look at that the crow! He has some grapes,” thought the fox, “Maybe I can get them.”

The fox then sat under the tree and praised the crow’s beauty, “Oh, black crow! Your feather are the shiniest I have ever seen.”

 The crow felt happy and started showing his wings off by flapping them.

“Oh, beautiful crow! If you have such beautiful feathers, then you must be able to sing very beautifully as well,” commented the fox.

The black crow started to sing without realizing that the grapes are still in his beak, “Caw, caw, caw.” The bunch of grape fell out of its beak and onto the ground.

The fox the gobbled up the grapes as fast as a bullet and said, “Silly crow. You are not beautiful and you sound terrible. Because of that you are now hungry.”

A boy named Jack was sent to the market one day, instructed by his mother to sell their cow. As Jack proceeded to the market, he met a stranger who offered to trade five “magic beans” for the cow. Jack accepted the trade and returned back home with the beans in his pocket.

Jack’s mother was angered that he had not obeyed her instructions to sell the cow and threw the beans out of the window.

As Jack slept, the beans germinated into the soil and a gigantic beanstalk grew in their place by morning. When Jack saw the huge beanstalk, he immediately decided to climb up it. He arrived in a land high up in the clouds that happened to be the home of a giant. When he broke into the giant’s castle, the giant quickly sensed a human was near and would say

Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
I smell the blood of an Englishman.
Be he ‘live, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.

However, Jack was saved by the giant’s wife and as he escaped from the palace, he took a bag of gold coins with him. Jack desired more treasures from the castle in the clouds and climbed once more up the beanstalk. This time he stole a hen that laid golden eggs. Again he was saved from harm by the giant’s wife.

Jack disregarded having nearly been discovered by the giant twice and decided to go up the beanstalk a third time. This time, he stole a magical harp that played by itself. The instrument did not appreciate being stolen and called out to the giant for help. The giant chased Jack down the beanstalk, but Jack managed to get to the ground before the giant did.

 Jack found an ax and immediately chopped the beanstalk down. The giant fell to earth, hitting the ground so hard that it split, and pulling the beanstalk down with him.
 

A beast had a beautiful garden. It had flower bearing plants and fruit bearing trees.

Children always came to play in this garden. The annoyed beast shooed away the children and built a huge wall around the garden
and stood at the gate guarding the garden.

Days passed the garden lost its vigour and did not flower or fruit.

One day a small girl entered the garden without the beast’s notice.
She climbed a tree so as to hide herself from the beast.
In her presence the tree started flowering. Seeing the tree flower in the company of the girl, the beast realised its mistake.

It broke open the garden gate and let all children play happily inside the garden resulting the plants and trees to flower and fruit again.
 

John was the son of Thomas. John, a farmer who worked all day and night to make his livelihood.
He was least bothered about his health. He gave no importance for leisure.
Seeing him work so hard Thomas kept reminding him of taking rest. But John hardly paid attention to his father’s words.

Months passed, John’s wife gave birth to a baby boy Issac.

One afternoon Thomas took his grandson to the field where John was working.
Seeing his son in scorching sun, John was annoyed and asked Thomas to move Issac to a shade.
Having heard what John said Thomas replied that he felt the same pain seeing his son work all day long in the sun.

John realised his mistake and started listening to his father.

Once upon a time, there lived a group of mice under a tree. One day, a group of elephants came that way and destroyed the homes of all the mice. Then the king of mice decided to approach the elephant chief and request him to guide his herd through another route. The elephant king agreed to this and took another route. And so, the lives of the mice were saved.

Later on, a group of elephant hunters came and trapped the elephants in huge nets. The elephant king remembered the king of the mice. He summoned one of the elephants who had not been trapped to go and findthe king of mice.

After listening to the elephant, the mouse king and all of his followers cut open the nets trapping the elephant herd. The elephants were set free.

MORAL: A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Once upon a time, the Wind and the Sun came to have a quarrel. Either of them claimed to be stronger. At last they agreed to have a trial of strength.

“Here comes a traveler. Let us see who can strip him of his cloak,” said the Sun.

The Wind agreed and chose to show his might in the first turn. He blew in the hardest possible way. As a result, the traveler wrapped his cloak even more tightly around him.

Then it was the turn of the Sun. At first he shone very gently. So, the traveler loosened his cloak from his neck.

The sun went on shining brighter and brighter. The traveler felt hot. Before long he took off his cloak and put it in his bag. The Wind had to accept his defeat.
MORAL : Fury or force cuts no ice where gentleness does the job.