In a small village, there was a cucumber farmer who planted many cucumbers and sold them to a city market. The farmer fenced his field with barbed wire to prevent wild animals from entering his field. He also sent a dog to guard the field. He felt secured with that.
One day,
a mouse deer was starving. She wandered here and there to look for food, and
finally she came to the field. She saw ripe cucumbers, but she couldn’t pass
the barbed wire fence.
“I must
have a brilliant idea,” she thought. She found dragon fruit plant near the
field. The smart mouse deer picked a dragon fruit and applied it to his left
foot. Then, she was back to the field.
“Help
me….help me, somebody help me!” She cried while walking with a limp. The dog
noticed her and walked up to her. “What’s the matter with you?” asked the dog.
“I fell on the rocks at the end of the road. I need medicine to cure my injured
leg,” said the mouse deer sadly. “What kind of medicine do you need?” aske the
worried dog. “My ancestors said that the best medicine for sore like this is to
eat some cucumbers. That’s why I’d like to ask you to give me some.”
Without
thinking twice, the dog gave her three cucumbers to cure her wounded foot. The
starving mouse deer ate them greedily. She thanked the kind-hearted dog and
left the field with a smile.
Moral of the story: Don’t steal
anything. It’s better to ask someone to give what you want
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