A Town Mouse and A Country Mouse

A Town Mouse and a Country Mouse were friends. The Country Mouse one day invited his friend to come and see him at his home in the fields. The Town Mouse came and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour. 

The flavour was not much to the taste of the guest and presently he broke out with “My poor dear friend, you live here no better than the ants. Now, you should just see how I fare! My larder is a regular horn of plenty. You must come and stay with me and I promise you shall live on the fat of the land." 

So when he returned to town he took the Country Mouse with him and showed him into a larder containing flour and oatmeal and figs and honey and dates. 

The Country Mouse had never seen anything like it and sat down to enjoy the luxuries his friend provided. But before they had well begun, the door of the larder opened and some one came in. The two Mice scampered off and hid themselves in a narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable hole. Presently, when all was quiet, they ventured out again. But some one else came in, and off they scuttled again. This was too much for the visitor. "Good bye," said he, "I'm off. You live in the lap of luxury, I can see, but you are surrounded by dangers whereas at home I can enjoy my simple dinner of roots and corn in peace." 

Hungry Wolf

This is a short story about Hungry Wolf. 

Once, a wolf was very hungry. It looked for food here and there. But it couldn't get any. At last it found a loaf of bread and piece of meat in the hole of a tree. 

The hungry wolf squeezed into the hole. It ate all the food. It was a woodcutter's lunch. He was on his way back to the tree to have lunch. But he saw there was no food in the hole, instead, a wolf. 

On seeing the woodcutter, the wolf tried to get out of the hole. But it couldn't. Its tummy was swollen. 

The woodcutter caught the wolf and gave it nice beatings. 

Who bell The Cat?

A rat and its big family were living in a baker's shop. They scraped the buns and cakes in the bakery. 

The baker tried his best to put an end to the nuisance of the rats. But all were in vain. At last he brought their real enemy-the cat to solve the problem. 

In the very next day the cat got some tiny rats for its breakfast. The rat family got worried of the loss of their dear ones. 

They arranged a meeting soon. They looked for an idea to escape from the cat. In the end, they decided to bell the cat. 

Then one of the elder rats asked them, who is ready to bell the cat? Nobody said yes. 

Instead they kept quiet. 

The Man Who Could not Die

Let us enjoy reading this Greek Mythological Story of The Man Who Could not Die. 

Eos, Goddess of Dawn fell in love with a youth named Tithonius, and the two spent many happy years together. But while Eos being a goddess retained her youth, Tithonius began to age. He asked his beloved to grant him immortality. She couldn’t do it on her own so she pleaded his case with Zeus, the supreme deity. 

Zeus reluctantly granted the boon. 

The story unfortunately does not have a happy ending. Tithonius had forgotten to ask for eternal youth. So though he could not die he could age. As his age advanced he became wrinkled and hunchbacked and revoltingly ugly. He pleaded with Eos to help him. 

She could not take back the gift of immortality nor could she give him back his youth. But she could change his form. She turned him into a grasshopper. 

A Moral Story : A Wise Counting

Let us enjoy reading this story of A Wise Counting. 

Emperor Akbar was in the habit of putting riddles and puzzles to his courtiers. He often asked questions which were strange and witty. It took much wisdom to answer these questions. 

Once he asked a very strange question. The courtiers were dumb folded by his question. 

Akbar glanced at his courtiers. As he looked, one by one the heads began to hang low in search of an answer. It was at this moment that Birbal entered the courtyard. Birbal who

knew the nature of the emperor quickly grasped the situation and asked, "May I know the question so that I can try for an answer". 

Akbar said, "How many crows are there in this city?" 

Without even a moment's thought, Birbal replied "There are fifty thousand five hundred and eighty nine crows, my lord". 

"How can you be so sure?” asked Akbar. 

Birbal said, "Make you men count, My lord. If you find more crows it means some have come to visit their relatives here. If you find less number of crows it means some have gone to visit their relatives elsewhere". 

Akbar was pleased very much by Birbal's wit. 

MORAL : A witty answer will serve its purpose.

A Moral Story : Selfish Friendship

Let us enjoy reading this story of Selfish Friendship. 

Once a cat was caught in a hunter's net. A mouse used to live in a nearby hole. The mouse seeing the cat 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 freed 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.