There lived a group of monkeys in deep forest. During one winter, there were so cold. They were feeling cold. They needs some fire to be little hot. In the mean time, one of the youngest monkey found one fire fly, which appeared to him as embers of fire. Ho told everybody see I found some fire. Some other monkeys join with him. Hoping to make some fire for themselves, they began to blow at them. 

One sparrow was watching the monkeys from above the tree. Considering the vain attempts the monkeys were busy with, it thought of advising them against it, "What big fools you are. You are blowing at some firefly and it can't help you to give warms. You will never be able to make any fire out of this. The monkeys did not listen to the sparrow. They continued to blow at poor firefly. 

What you are doing is a waste of time. These firefly will not help you to protect yourself against the cold. Go and find some shelter nearby cave. You may find a cave or a tunnel where you will be protected from the cold winds. The monkeys did not like his advice. One of the old monkeys said, "Go fool yourself. Why are you interfering in our task?" But the sparrow disagreed with him. 

In his continues effort to convince the monkeys, the bird came close to explain that their efforts were useless. The monkeys were frustrated by their efforts, the monkeys became angry. One of the monkeys caught the sparrow and smashed him against a stone in anger. It was dead within a minute.

Moral:

Never give advice unless you are asked for it.

Once upon a time there lived a dove in a big tree. The tree was nearby a spring. It was a hot summer day. An ant was searching for some water. After walking around for some time, she came to that spring. She was trirsty. While making her way to the spring, she slipped and fell into the water.

She started drowining. In the mean time dove was sitting on a branch of a tree. He saw that the ant was in trouble. The dove quickly plucked off a leaf and dropped it into the water near the struggling ant. The ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to dry ground. 

At that time, a hunter was seaching for a bird. He saw the dove was sitting on the tree. He had an arrow and bow. He connected his arrow with the bow and move towards the dove, hoping to kill it. Guessing what he was about to do, the ant quickly bit him on his heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter missed the arrow. The dove was quick to fly away to safety.

Morals: One good turn deserves another.

Once there was a fox lived in a deep forest. Inside the forest there was a cave where the fox alwyas used to eat his foods. One day he was too hungey and he went about in search of his food and reached a vineyard. He stopped near one of the trees that bore beautiful ripe grapes which were hang­ing in branches. His mouth watered. He thought that he would eat the ripe grapes to satisfy his hunger.

So he tried to hold of the grapes. He jumped as high as possible to hold at least one of the bunches which was not so high. But still it was beyond his reach. When his repeated efforts failed to get even a single grape, he was upset. 

So he consoled himself by thinking that these grapes must be sour, which he should not taste. And it is better to leave the place and look for food somewhere else. Thinking this way the fox went away from that place.

Once upon a time there was a fox lived in a dense forest. He was hungry. He ran in search of food but could not find anything to eat. While he was walking through his cave, he saw a crow sitting on the branch of a tree. It had a piece of meat in its beak.

His mouth watered. He thought of a plan. He praised the crow for its sweet songs. He prayed to him to sing a song. The crow felt proud with fox's flatering words. After listening from the fox the crow opened its mouth to sing a song ka ka..., When he opens his heak, its own piece of meat fell down from his beak. The fox took it away and ate it without second thought and went away happily.

Moral: Beware of flatterers.

Once upon a timere there lived a slave in a Greece. His master was very cruel to him. So the slave became sick of his cruel treatment. He decided to run away from his master.

One fine morning he fed up with his master and ran away to the forest. He saw a cave in the jungle. He hid himself in that cave. As he lay there thinking, he heard the groaning of a lion. The lion was getting lot of pain. He was frightened. As the lion came near, he saw that he was limping. The lion approached the slave and held out his paw.

The slave saw that his paw was swollen and a thorn was stuck in it. The slave drew out with a knife very gently. The lion was relieved of pain and take rest for sometimes and then went away. Afterwards they became friends.

One day the slave was arrested by his master. He was brought to his master who ordered his men to put him before a hungry lion. The day for punishment was fixed. The lion was freed from the cage to pounce upon the slave when he recognized him.

He now advanced slowly towards him and began to lick his hands with love. It was the same lion, he helped. The slave too, patted him. After that his master released him with fear.

Once upon a time there lived a cap seller in a small village. He used to go from his village to nearest village to sell the caps. His way lay through a big forest.

It was a hot summer day and it was very hot. The cap seller got tired by walking from his village. To get some rest he sat under a shaded tree and kept his cap basket near by him.

Soon he fell asleep under the shadow of the tree. Many monkeys were living on that tree. When they saw the caps they climbed down the tree and each one of them put a cap on their head from the basket. Then they climbed up the tree again. Soon the basket looks empty.

The cap seller woke up after some time. He found that his caps were missing from his basket. By chance he looked up and saw the monkeys wearing his caps. He tried his best to get his caps back but all his efforts were in vain.

Suddenly an idea struck in his mind. He took off his own cap and threw it on the ground. Monkeys did the same as they are loving to copy others. The cap seller collected all his caps and went away happily.

Moral: Intelligence works wonders.

Once upon a time there lived two friends in a small village. One fine evening they were walking through the forest. They supposed to reach there friends home before evening. They knew that anything dangerous can happen to them at any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would remain united in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a bear following them. One of the friends at once climbed a nearby tree. But the other one did not know how to climb a tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless, pretending to be a dead man.

The bear came near the man lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place. Because the bears do not touch the dead persons. After the bear left that place the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend who lied on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear tell you into your ears?” The other friend replied, “the bear had advised me to beware of false friends".

Moral: True Friend is the one who always supports and stands by you in any situation.