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The rooster makes its last mistake
Two burglars were prowling around a barn one night. They could hear something moving inside, and ever so carefully they climbed in to see what it was. It was a rooster. "Ah-ha," they cried. "This will do for our supper tomorrow."
They grabbed it and were about to kill it when the rooster squawked in alarm: "Please don't kill me. I can be useful to you. I can wake you at dawn every day, ready to start work on time."
"That's just what we don't want," growled the burglars. "If you wake people up they'll catch us robbing their houses."
So that was the end of the rooster.
Moral: “Boasting begins where wisdom stops,” a Japanese proverb
The jealous goat
The rooster makes its last mistake
Two burglars were prowling around a barn one night. They could hear something moving inside, and ever so carefully they climbed in to see what it was. It was a rooster. "Ah-ha," they cried. "This will do for our supper tomorrow."
They grabbed it and were about to kill it when the rooster squawked in alarm: "Please don't kill me. I can be useful to you. I can wake you at dawn every day, ready to start work on time."
"That's just what we don't want," growled the burglars. "If you wake people up they'll catch us robbing their houses."
So that was the end of the rooster.
Moral: “Boasting begins where wisdom stops,” a Japanese proverb
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A goat and a donkey lived on the same farm. The goat had to find his own
food, but because he made the donkey work hard, the farmer fed him. The
goat became jealous, forgetting the entire donkey's hard work. He thought if
the donkey stopped working, he would get his food. So he pushed him into a
large hole, and he was badly hurt.
The farmer sent for the vet, who examined the donkey. "The quickest way to make him better," he said, "is to feed him with goat soup."
So instead of getting the donkey's food for himself, the goat ended up as food for the donkey!
Moral: “Envy is the ulcer of the Soul,” Socrates
Look before you eat
You know what dogs are like. If you drop a bit of food from the table they shallow it before they know what it is. But sometimes they wish they hadn't.
Fanny the farm dog wasn't allowed in while her master Josh was eating with the family. But one day she crept in and hid under the table when no-one was looking.
She kept very quiet until suddenly a big dollop of food fell next to her. She gobbled it up without thinking. Then she let out a big howl and rushed outside, holding her tummy with one paw.
The family was eating a very hot curry for supper!
Moral: “Love is blind and greed is insatiable.” A Chinese proverb
One good turn deserves another
Fred was a farm-worker who found a young eagle caught in a trap. He couldn't bear to see such a beautiful bird in pain, so he released it.
A few days later, he was sitting in the shade of an old wall, having bread and cheese for his lunch.
Suddenly, with a flapping of wings, the eagle swooped and stole the cap from his head. It flew away just above the ground with Fred rushing after it, shouting, until it dropped his cap.
Fred put it back on his head and trudged back to finish his lunch. But what do you think?
Exactly where he had been sitting the old wall had collapsed! Each of them had saved the other.
Moral: “If you do good, good will be done to you,” a Danish proverb
food, but because he made the donkey work hard, the farmer fed him. The
goat became jealous, forgetting the entire donkey's hard work. He thought if
the donkey stopped working, he would get his food. So he pushed him into a
large hole, and he was badly hurt.
The farmer sent for the vet, who examined the donkey. "The quickest way to make him better," he said, "is to feed him with goat soup."
So instead of getting the donkey's food for himself, the goat ended up as food for the donkey!
Moral: “Envy is the ulcer of the Soul,” Socrates
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Look before you eat
You know what dogs are like. If you drop a bit of food from the table they shallow it before they know what it is. But sometimes they wish they hadn't.
Fanny the farm dog wasn't allowed in while her master Josh was eating with the family. But one day she crept in and hid under the table when no-one was looking.
She kept very quiet until suddenly a big dollop of food fell next to her. She gobbled it up without thinking. Then she let out a big howl and rushed outside, holding her tummy with one paw.
The family was eating a very hot curry for supper!
Moral: “Love is blind and greed is insatiable.” A Chinese proverb
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One good turn deserves another
Fred was a farm-worker who found a young eagle caught in a trap. He couldn't bear to see such a beautiful bird in pain, so he released it.
A few days later, he was sitting in the shade of an old wall, having bread and cheese for his lunch.
Suddenly, with a flapping of wings, the eagle swooped and stole the cap from his head. It flew away just above the ground with Fred rushing after it, shouting, until it dropped his cap.
Fred put it back on his head and trudged back to finish his lunch. But what do you think?
Exactly where he had been sitting the old wall had collapsed! Each of them had saved the other.
Moral: “If you do good, good will be done to you,” a Danish proverb
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