THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER

On a hot day in a summer, a group of ants was working hard to

collect food. They lifted the grains of wheat that they had gathered into
their nest. When they were lifting their food, the grasshopper came and
taunted them, ”Hey ants, what did you do? Come on … just relax for a
moment! Do not be too busy gathering the existing food!” “We are
preparing food for next winter, instead of playing, better you collect your
food!“ said the ants. However, the grasshopper didn’t heed the ants’
word. He continued to play throughout the day.
When the winter arrived, the grasshopper was starving. He was
looking for food everywhere but he did not find anything “Ahhh … I’m so
hungry, why there is no food for me to eat,” the grasshopper complained.
Then he went to the ants’ house to ask for food. “Ants, please help me, I
am hungry. Give me something to eat!“ pleaded the grasshopper. “Hey
grasshopper, you should collect food in summer instead of playing!“ said
the ants. Grasshopper continued to appeal to the ants, “Help me, you’re
right! If only I had worked hard that day, I wouldn’t have been hungry!“
The ants felt pity on the grasshopper then they gave him some food.
“Okay, I’ll give you a little food,“ said the ants. ”You’re so kind to me,
thank you!” said the grasshopper. Finally the ants gave some food to the
grasshopper. The grasshopper promised from now on he would prefer
working harder to playing around.
 THE WOLF AND THE GOAT

A wolf saw a goat grazing at the edge of a high cliff.

The wolf smacked his lips at the thought of at fine goat
dinner.
“My dear friend,” said the wolf in his sweetest voice,
“aren’t you afraid you will fall down from that cliff? Come
down here and graze on this fine grass beside me on safe,
level ground.”
“No, thank you,” said the goat.
“Well then,” said the wolf, “aren’t you cold up there
in the wind? You would be warmer grazing down here
beside me in this sheltered area.”
“No, thank you,” said the goat.
“But the grass tastes better down here!” said the
exasperated wolf, “why do you dine alone?”
“My dear wolf,” the goat finally said, “are you quite
sure that it is my dinner you are worrying about and not
your own?”
 THE CAMEL AND THE JACKAL

There once was a Jackal who hated water but needed to

cross a river. He decided to come to an agreement with a camel.
“If you carry me to the other side of the river,” he proposed to
the camel, “I will show you a field full of sugar cane. Then, while you
eat the sugar cane, I will dine on the fish and crabs I find on the river-
bank.”
The camel agreed to this bargain and the Jackal jumped up
on his back. The crossing went perfectly, but afterwards the jackal
who had a much smaller stomach, satisfied his hunger long before
the camel. While the camel was still eating, the jackal began to
howl. The noise brought the farmers running with big stick. The
little jackal managed to escape, but the camel could not avoid a
beating.
“Why on earth did you do that?” asked the camel when he
was carrying the jackal back across the river.
“Oh, it's just that I nearly always sing for a while after dinner,”
replied the jackal.
“Well, I nearly always have a roll in the water when I've
finished eating,” said the camel, and he splashed down in the river.
So with a ducking in the river, the camel repaid the jackal for
the beating it had received.
 THE TIGER AND THE ELEPHANT

One morning there was a tiger who woke up and just felt
great. He felt so good, he went out and cornered a small monkey
and roared at him “Who is the mightiest of all the jungle
animals?” The poor little monkey replied, “You are of course, no
one is mightier than you.”
A little while later, this tiger confronted a deer and
bellowed out. “Who is the greatest and strongest of all the jungle
animals?” The deer was shaking so hard. It almost could not
speak, but managed to say, “Oh great tiger, you are by far the
mightiest animal in the jungle.”
The tiger walked proudly to an elephant that was quietly
eating some weeds and roared at the top of his voice, ““Who is
the mightiest of all the jungle animals?”
Then this elephant grabbed the tiger with his trunk, picked
him up, slammed him down, picked him up again and shook him
until the tiger was just a blur of orange and black. Finally, the
elephant threw him violently into a nearby tree. The tiger
staggered to his feet and looked at the elephant and said, “Man,
just because you don’t know the answer, you don’t have to get so
angry!”
 THE FOX AND THE TIGER

One day a tiger caught a fox in the forest. Before the tiger
could eat him up, the cunning fox cried out, “You cannot make a
meal of me. Don’t you know that I am the King of the forest? If
you eat me up, all the other animals of the forest will be
very angry with you.”
The tiger did not believe him. “How can such a small animal
be the King of the Forest?” he asked himself.
“If you don’t believe me,” the fox said. “then take a walk
with me in the forest. You can see by yourself whether the other
animals are afraid of me or not.”
The tiger agreed to do so and they set off together, the fox
walked in front and the tiger followed behind. When the other
animals saw the tiger approaching, they ran off as they could.
This was that the fox expected.
“You see, Mr. Tiger,” he called out quickly. “All the other
animals are afraid of me.”
“Yes, yes.” The tiger agreed. “You are quite right. You are
really the King of the Forest.”
He then let the fox go.
 THE DONKEY, THE FOX, AND THE LION

A donkey and a fox went into partnership and went out to

search for food together. They hadn’t gone far before they saw
a lion coming on their way, at which they were both extremely
frightened.
But the fox thought he saw a way of saving his own skin,
and went boldly up to the lion and whispered in his ear, “I’ll
manage that you shall get hold of the donkey without any
trouble, if you’ll promise to let me go free.” The lion agreed to
this, and the fox then rejoined his companion.
Before long it managed to lead him by a hidden pit, which
some hunter had dug as a trap for wild animals, and into which
he fell. When the lion saw that the donkey was safely caught and
couldn’t get away, it was to the fox that he first turned his
attention, and he soon finished him off, and then at his leisure
proceeded to feast upon the donkey.