A selfish fox once invited a stork to dinner at his home in a hollow tree. That evening, the stork flew to the fox’s home and knocked on the door with her long beak. The fox opened the door and said,“Please come in and share my food.”The stork was invited […]

One day long ago, some sailors set out to sea in their sailing ship. One of them brought his pet monkey along for the long journey.When they were far out at sea, a terrible storm overturned their ship.Everyone fell into the sea, and the monkey was sure that he would […]

One hot day, an ant was searching for some water.After walking around for some time, she came to a spring.To reach the spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass.While making her way up, she slipped and fell into the water.She could have drowned if a dove up […]

A tortoise one day met a hare who made fun of her.“My, my, you move so slowly, you will never get far!”The tortoises, upset by the hare’s manner, said,“Let’s have a race and see who is faster.”The hare laughed and said, “You must be joking! But all right, we’llsee who […]

Once there was a shepherd boy who had to look after a flock ofsheep. One day, he felt bored and decided to play a trick on thevillagers. He shouted, “Help! Wolf! Wolf!”The villagers heard his cries and rushed out of the village to helpthe shepherd boy. When they reached him, […]

  Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in search of a filament forthe light bulb. When none worked satisfactorily, his assistant complained,“All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing.”Edison replied very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we havelearned a lot. We now know […]

Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. One day, he went for a trip to some distant areas of his country.When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet werevery painful, because it was the first time that he went for […]

Finding that cranes were destroying his newly sown corn, a farmerone evening set a net in his field to catch the destructive birds.When he went to examine the net next morning he founda number of cranes and also a stork.“Release me, I beseech you,” cried the stork, “for I have […]