One cold morning, a poor shepherd was grazing his cattle in a pasture. He had neither enough clothes to wear nor even a pair of shoes. Suddenly, a man came there on a horse, a notorious dacoit. He dismounted, went to the shepherd and said, “Come and work with me. I will give you clothes […]
Once, a boy was playing near some hedges laden with berries that appeared ripe and juicy. His mouth watered and he licked his chops. Immediately, he started gathering the berries. Just then, he got stung sharply by a nettle. He started feeling pain and soon, a rash appeared on his hand. Leaving the collection of
A saint was once preaching to his disciples. One of the disciples asked how they could be endowed with the brilliance of creativity. The disciple meant to say–could any task performed by them make sure of their creative sense? Thereupon the saint provided a sieve to his disciples and said to fill water in the
Once a stork was invited to the dinner by a selfish fox at his home. The stork reached the fox’s home and knocked at the door with her long beak. The fox welcomed her with open arms and offered to have dinner together. The fox served soup in shallow bowls for both. As the bowl
Once a farmer constantly advertised to hire hands for his land, along the seacoast. Most people dreaded the awful storms that raged across the ocean and denied to work on farms. After a steady stream of refusals the farmer met a short thin man, during the interview of the applicants. The farmer asked, “Are you
One cold, frosty day in the middle of winter, a colony of ants was busy drying out some, grains of corn, which had grown damp during the wet autumn weather. A half dead grasshopper, with cold and hunger, came up to one of the ants, and begged to give it a piece or two from
Once upon a time, there was a man who had two pots. As one was good, it delivered full water in it but another was cracked. For two years, the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. The perfect pot flaunted on its accomplishment but the
In a scorching hot day, an ant was walking around in search of water. After sometime she reached a spring where she had to climb up a blade of grass. She slipped and fell into the water while making her way up. She could have been drowned if a dove up a nearby tree had
Once a young boy was going to get a graduation degree. For many months he had been admiring a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom. Knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted. He was sure that he would have that car as a gift from his
A few years ago, at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100 metres race. At the fire of the gun, they started with a relish to run the race to the finish and win. One little boy among them stumbled on the asphalt,
Once a boy, with his father was walking on a mountain. The boy inquisitively asked his father many questions about the world. Suddenly, he surprisingly heard a voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: “AAAhhhhhhhhhhh.” Just as he had screamed when he had got injured. He curiously asked, “Who are you?” He received the answer, “Who
There was a boy who had bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence every time he lost his temper. On the first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Soon the number of nails hammered daily
Once a man started arguing about the existence of God on earth with a barber when he had gone to have his beard and hair cut in a barber shop. The barber said, “Look man, I don’t believe that God exists as you say so. If God existed, would there be so many sick people?
Finding a few uninvited cranes destroying his newly sown crops, a farmer set a net in his field in order to catch those destructive birds.Next day, when the farmer strode across the field to examine the net he found that the net was full of cranes and a stork. Suddenly, the farmer heard a moaning
One day, a father of a very affluent family decided to take his son on a trip to show how the poor people lived so he could be thankful for his wealth. They spent a couple of days with poor families. On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the