A greedy mouse saw a basket full of corn. He wanted to eat it.

So he made a small hole in the

basket. He squeezed in through the hole. He ate a lot of corn. He felt full. He was very happy.
Now he wanted to come out. He tried to come out through the small hole. He could not. His
belly was full. He tried again. But it was of no use.

The mouse started crying. A rabbit was passing by. It heard the mouse’s cry and asked: ”Why
are you crying my friend?” The mouse explained: “I made a small hole and came into the
basket. Now I am not able to get out through

that hole.” The rabbit said: ”It is because you ate too much. Wait til your belly shrinks”. The
rabbit laughed and went away.

Short Stories Greedy MouseThe mouse fell asleep in the basket. Next ‘ morning his belly had
shrunk. But the mouse wanted to eat some corn. So he, ate and ate.

His belly was full once again. He thought: ”Oh! Now I will go out tomorrow”. The cat was
the next passerby. He smelt the mouse in the basket. He lifted its lid. He ate the mouse.

 
 A SMALL THING COSTS MUCH

One day, while walking down the road, a father said to his son, “Look, a horsesh is lying in
the mud. Pick it up.”

The son said, “I hate to pick up things from mud.”

The father picked up the horsesh and kept it in his pocket. On reaching the village, he sold the
horsesh and bought some cherries.

Father understood the desire of his son and dropped a cherry on the ground. The son picked it
up, washed it and ate it up.

Then the father said to him, “Sometimes even small things cost much. These cherries are
because of that horsesh that you refused to pick up from the mud.”

The son understood what his father meant.

 EVERY COIN HAS TWO FACES

Once upon a time a man and a lion were journeying together. To kill time they started
talking. For some time they talked happily but then one of them began to boast of his prowess
and claimed to be superior to the other. Soon the argument heated up and there was a fear of a
fight.

Luckily, they came to a cross-road where a beautiful statue stood that showed a man
strangulating a lion that looked helpless and was ready to die.

The man said, “Look there! Dosnt’t it prove my point, Mr. Lion?”

The lion replied, “Its your view. But if we lion make statues, we shall show the man under
the strong paws of a lion.”

The man had no words to reply. So, they both cooled down and moved ahead.

The End..