The Camel and The Jackal A camel and a jackal were friends. One day the jackal took his friend to a big sugar-cane farm. It was on the opposite side of a river. After a sumptuous meal the jackal began to howl loudly. The frightened camel pleaded with the jackal not to do so. The jackal said, “Friend, I have this habit after every meal. I cannot help it.” Soon the...

Silly Little Mariam There lived a little girl Mariam who was very silly and lazy. Often she used to wander hither and thither with no purpose. Once, as she went wandering she felt very thirsty. She went to a pond nearby and quenched her thirst. She felt very tired and drowsy. She slept right there on the banks of the pond. When she woke up it was night already. She peeped...

Sheba and The Monkey Sheba, the queen of jungle, was very fond of babies. Once, she announced, “I order all animals to come to my palace with their babies. The animal who has the most beautiful baby will be awarded a prize”. All animals came to Sheba’s palace with their babies. Sheba started inspecting the babies one by one. She came to a monkey and said “What an ugly baby! You...

Selfish Friendship Once a cat was caught in a hunter’s net. A mouse used to live in a nearby hole. The mouse seeing the cat in the net started playing around the cat. Soon a mongoose came there. He wanted to kill the mouse. As he lifted his head, he saw an owl sitting on a tree trying to catch him. The mongoose went very near the cat’s net to save...

Satan in Disguise There lived an old tiger in a forest. He could not hunt animals as he used to do when he was young. It was becoming difficult to get prey. The tiger thought, “I have lost my strength and speed of my youth. Unless I find some trick, I will starve to death”. After long thoughts, the tiger struck upon a plan. He began to keep on saying “I...

Pride has A Fall Gorelal was a famous sculptor. His sculptures looked real ones. One day he saw a dream that after fifteen days, the demon of Death would come to take him. Gorelal prepared nine statues of himself and when on the 15th day he heard the Demon of Death coming, he took his place between the statues. The Demon could not recognise him and was astonished to see ten...

One Nut and Two Boys     Two little boys were playing together. One little boy saw a nut on the ground. Before he could pick it the other boy took it. The first boy demanded, “Give me the nut. It’s mine. I only saw it first”. The other boy replied, “It’s mine. I only took it”. This lead to a quarrel between these two little boys. Just then a tall...

Look before you leap     Once, a fox was very thirsty.   He saw a big well nearby and peeped into it.   The fox slipped and fell into the well.   He tried to come out.   But he could not do so.   After some time, there came a goat who was also thirsty.   He too peeped into the well.   The fox saw the goat and...