Short Story ”A Cunning Jackal” Complete Story for Class 10, Class 12 and other classes.
A Cunning Jackal
Once a jackal was wandering in search of food. It strayed into a town. It saw a dyer’s pot full of blue dye. It slipped into it. As it jumped out of the pot, it was dyed blue. It was a cunning jackal. It decided to make the best of this happening.
He went to the jungle and said to his friends, “I am your blue king. God has sent me to rule over you. If you obey me, you will enjoy all comforts of life.”
But some animals did not obey his elders. They held a meeting. As the meeting was going on, one of the jackal began to how1. The blue jackal also howled. Now the other jackals came to know that blue king was one of their brethren like them. All of them killed him.
Moral: over cleverness is dangerous or one cannot deceive all the people for all the time.