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A moral story: the dog and the donkey

There lived a dog and a donkey in a house of rich man. The dog guarded his house and the donkey
carried loads for him.

It was a hot afternoon. The dog was sleeping under the shady veranda. There was some noise outside.
The dog just lifted up his head and went back to sleep.

The donkey asked, “Why don’t you bark. It could be thieves.” The dog replied,” mind your own
business.” But the donkey would not listen. He wanted to save is master from thieves. He started to
bray.

The master who was sound asleep got wild with the donkey and came running out with a stick and gave
hard beatings to the donkey.

Moral: it is always better to mind our own business.

A moral story: clever thief

Devan was a clever thief. He robbed the rich and gave all to the sick and the needy. The other thieves
were jealous of him. They planned to get rid of him. They challenged to steal the king’s pyjamas.

Devan accept the challenge. After that he prepared to execute the new challenge. He charted out a plan
to steal the king. He prepared himself mentally to carry out a plan.

He went to the king’s palace. He found the king sleeping. He opened a bottle of red ants on the bed. The
king was badly bitten. He cried for help… the Servants rushed in. they pretended to look for ants.
Devan removed the king’s pyjamas and escaped. Other thieves were dump founded.

They accepted Devan their leader.

Moral: be clever.

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A moral story: Haste makes Waste

A woman had a pet mongoose. It was very faithful. One day she went to the market, leaving her baby in
the care of the mongoose. At that time a big cobra entered the house. The mongoose killed it after a
long fierce fight. When the women came back she saw the mongoose lying at the entrance. She noticed
its blood-covered mouth. In her haste the women thought that the mongoose killed her baby. In
moment of sudden fury, the women threw the water pot on the mongoose and killed it. Alas! When she
entered the house she saw filled with remorse. Her baby was playing cheerfully. Nearby a big cobra lay
dead. The woman shed tears of grief fondling the carcass of the mongoose.

Moral: do not act in haste.

A moral story: honesty is the best policy.

A milkman became very wealthy through dishonest means. He had to cross a river daily to
reach the city where his customers lived. He mixed the water around collecting the dues with
the milk that he sold for a good profit. One day he went around collecting the dues in order
to celebrate the wedding of his son. With the large amount thus collected he purchased
plenty of rich clothes and glittering gold ornaments. But while crossing the river the boat
capsized and all his costly purchases were swallowed by the river. The milk vendor was
speechless with grief. At that time he heard a voice that come from the river “do not weep.
What you have lost is only the illicit gains you earned through cheating your customers.

Moral: Honest dealings are always supreme. Money

earned by wrong methods will never remain forever.

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A moral story: 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 recognize him and was astonished to see ten
gorelalas instead of one. He rushed back to the god of death and told the matter. The god of
death got annoyed and set out to take gorelal himself. Gorelal was alert and stood
motionless. The god of death initially got perplexed. But he thought for a moment. He said,
“gorelal, these sculptures would have been perfect but for one mistake. “gorelal was unable
to suffer the least blemish in his work. He came out and asked, “where is the fault?” god of
death caught him and said, “HERE”. The statues were faultless but gorelal was caught
because of his pride.

Moral: pride has a fall.

A moral story: selfish friendship

Once a cat was caught in a hunter’s net. A mouse used to live in a nearby hole. The time
mouse seeing the cat is 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 himself. The mouse
thought “when the hunter takes away the cat, the mongoose will not spare me and the owl
is there to enjoy both of us.” The mouse went to the cat and said, “I can cut the net if you
promise to save my life from the mongoose and the owl.” The cat agreed. The mouse started
cutting the net slowly and frees the cat only when the hunter was just near the cat. The cat
took to heels and so ran the mongoose too. The owl was very much disappointed to see
even the mouse running away to safety. A few days later, the cat being hungry, went to the
hole of the mouse and requested him to come out for a game. The mouse replied, “I sought
friendship and saved you to save my life. “Now you can go home.

Moral: don’t nurture friendship with selfish people.

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A moral story: the farmer and his lazy sons

In madhanpur lived a very hard working farmer named Gopal. He has three sons ram, Laxman
and hanuman. All three were strong and healthy. But they were all lazy. Gopal was sad
thinking about his sons and the future of his farmland. One day, Gopal got a flash of an idea.
He called all his sons and said, “Ram. Laxman and Hanuman! I have hidden a treasure in our
farmland. You search and share the treasure among you.”
The three sons were overjoyed. They went to the fields and started searching Ram started
from one end. Laxman search from the other end. And Hanuman did so from the center. They
dug each and every inch of the field. But they could not find anything. Gopal said to his sons,
“dear boys! Now you have tooled and conditioned the field, why not we sow crop” off went
the sons to sow the crops. Days passed. Soon, the crops grew lushly green. The sons were
delighted. The father said, “Sons, this is the real treasure I wanted you to share.”

Moral: fruits of hard work are always

sweet.

A moral story: 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 boy came that way .upon seeing the quarrel between the boys, he said, “give me
the nut and I’ll settle your quarrel.”
He split the nut into two parts. He took out the fruit-seed. He gave one half-shell to one boy
and other half-shell to the other. He put the fruit seed into his mouth and said, ‘this is for
settling your quarrel.”

Moral: when two people quarrel someone else gains.

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A moral story: 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 farmers arrived and gave a sound
thrashing to the camel. When the camel crossed the river the jackal joined him on his back. In
the midstream the camel took a deliberate dip in the water. When the jackal cried out in
terror, the camel said casually: “I have the habit of rolling in the water after every meal.” The
poor jackal was drowned.

Moral: every action has an opposite reaction.

A moral story: the cap-seller and the monkeys

Once, there was a cap-seller in a town. On one fine day, he was selling caps.
“Caps, caps, caps……….. Five rupees caps, ten rupees caps……..”
After he made few sales of caps, he become very tired. He decide to sit under a big tree to
take rest for a while. Soon, he slept off. There were many monkeys on the big tree. They saw
the cap-seller was sleeping under the tree. The monkeys were sitting on the top of the tree.
The monkeys come down, took the caps from cap-seller-bag and wore them. Then they
climbed the tree again. When the cap seller woke up, he was shocked to see his basket
empty. He searched for his caps. To his surprise, he saw the monkeys were wearing them. He
found that monkeys were imitating him. So, he started throwing his cap down and the
monkeys also did so. The cap-seller collected all the caps, put them back in his basket and
went away happily.

Moral: wisdom is the better then weapons of war.

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A moral story: 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 that was also thirsty. He too peed into the well. The fox saw the goat and said from
inside the well, “the water is very sweet. Come and come to enjoy. “The foolish goat also
jumped in to the well. The clever fox climbed on the back of the goat and jumped out of the
well.

Moral: look before you leap.

A moral story: The crooked tree

It was a dense forest. All trees were straight and tall.
Their trunks were broad and shapely. But, there was one tree which was having a crooked
and shapeless trunk. The crooked trunk tree was sad. He thought “how ugly I am! All others
are straight and shapely. I alone have crooked trunk.”
One day a wood-cutter came there. He looked around and said “I will cut all trees here,
except that crooked tree. That is of no use to me.”
He cut away all other trees.
Now, the crooked tree was happy for its crookedness.

Moral: be happy with what you are.

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A moral story: the cat and the fox

A cat and a fox were once discussing about hounds. The cat said, “I hate hounds. They are very
nasty animals. They hunt and kill us.”
The foxed said, “I hate hounds more than you.”
The cat asked, “How do you save yourself from hounds?”
The foxed replied, “There are many tricks to get away from hounds.”
The cat asked “can you say what your tricks are?”
“They are very simple”, said the fox. I can hide behind thick bushes. Can run along thorny
hedges. I can hide in burrows. There are many more such tricks.”
Now it was the turn of the fox to ask the cat about her tricks.
The foxed asked, “How many tricks do you know?”
The cat replied, “I know just one trick.”
The fox sneered, “Oh! How sad! You know only one trick? What is your trick?”
The cat was about to answer. But, she found a flock of hound’s fast approach. She said, I am
going to do it now. Because the hounds are coming”.
Saying these words, the cat ran up a nearby tree safe from the hounds. The fox tried all his
tricks but the hounds out beat him. “My one trick is better than all his tricks.” Said the cat to
herself.

Moral: it is better to be a master of

one art than to be a jack of many.

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