The donkey, the dog, the cat and the cock

The donkey, the dog, the cat and the cock

There was a Dhobi in the city of Patna. The Dhobi had a donkey that used to carry all the clothes to the Ghat and back. The Dhobi used to give good food to the Donkey. The donkey also worked very hard. But slowly the donkey became very old and was not able to work. Then the Dhobi stopped feeding the donkey. The donkey felt miserable and decided to go to Calcutta to become a musician. So one day he started walking towards Calcutta.

On its way he met an old dog that was weeping horribly .The donkey asked him, “Why are you crying/”. The dog replied, “My master brought me to this house when I was young. He asked me to guard the house at night. I also used to do it carefully. He used to give me good food and cared for me. I also used to like him. But now I have become old. I am feeling sleepy at night. I am not able to catch the thieves. And now my master has stopped giving me food. What should I do?” The donkey replied, “The same thing happened to me. So I have decided to go to Calcutta to become a musician. Why don’t you also come with me?” The dog agreed saying it was a very good idea. Then the donkey and the dog started their journey towards Calcutta.

On their way, they both met a cat that was crying horribly. The Dog and the Donkey asked him, “Why are you crying?” The cat replied, “My master brought me to this house when I was very young. There were lots of rats in this house. I caught all of them. Whenever a new rat came, I used to catch it easily. My master gave me lot of milk and looked after me well. But now I have become old. I am not able to catch rats any more. So my master stopped giving me milk. I am crying because of that.” Then the donkey and dog told the cat, “ We are very sorry to hear your story. We also became old and our master is not giving us food. So we decided to go to Calcutta to become musicians. Why don’t you come with us.” The cat thought it was a very good idea and joined them. Then the donkey, dog and the cat started walking towards Calcutta.

On their way they met a cock that was crying bitterly. The donkey, dog and the cat asked the cock, “Why are you crying?” The cock replied, “My master brought me to this house when I was young. I used to wake up early morning and wake him up so that he could go to work early. He also used to give me good food. But now I have become old. I also fall asleep in the morning. So I am not able to wake him up. Now he has stopped giving me any food. That is why, I am crying.” Then the donkey, dog and the cat told the cock,” We are very sorry to hear your story. We also became old and our master is not giving us food. So we decided to go to Calcutta to become musicians. Why don’t you come with us.” .The cock thought it was a very good idea and joined them.

The entire day the donkey, dog, cat and the cock walked and reached a forest. They all felt very tired. So they decided to sleep. The donkey and the dog slept below the tree and the cat and the cock climbed up the tree. It was very cold and they were feeling very hungry. Then the cock, which was on the top of the tree, saw some light at a distance. They decided to go there. They reached the place. It was a big house. The cock said that it would see who is inside. It flew near the window and came down. The donkey, dog and the cat asked. “Who is there in the house? Will we get food?” The cock replied, “The house has three robbers. They have lot of food on the table.” Then all of them spoke to each other and made a plan

The donkey stood with his leg on the window. The dog stood on him. The cat stood on the dog and the Cock flew and remained on the top. All of them started singing at the same time. The robbers who were inside thought that there was a ghost outside and ran away. The donkey, the dog, the cat and the cock went inside took as much food as they want and decided to sleep. The cat decided to sleep on the stove in the kitchen. The dog decided to sleep near the gate. The donkey decided to sleep near the outside wall and the cock decided to sleep on the roof.

The robbers who had ran away felt hungry. They were watching their house from far away. When no sound was being heard they thought, that it is safe to return to their house. But they sent only one robber to the house to see everything was all right. That robber slowly entered the house through the back door and went in to the dark kitchen. He wanted to see whether there was milk on the stove. When he was feeling with his fingers, the cat jumped up from the stove and scratched his face. The robber became afraid and ran out side. The dog that was near the door bit his leg. He ran near the wall. The donkey kicked him and threw him on the roof. The cock that was sitting there pecked all over him with its sharp beak. The robber jumped from the roof and ran to the other robbers and told them, “A new ghost has come to our house. It scratched me, bit me, kicked me and pecked me. So it is not safe to go there.” The other robbers agreed and went away. The donkey, the dog, the cat and the cock lived happily in that house. At night they all used to practice music lessons.

Elephants don’t forget

Elephants don’t forget

There was a bad Tailor in a village long ago. He used to play pranks with people. In that village there was a very good elephant. You know Maithree, elephants are very big animals. Though they are huge, they are very caring. If you give them Bananas they will take it from your hands. They also place their trunk on your head and bless you. The elephants love to take bath in cold water. They would go inside the tank , swim and also enjoy pouring water all over themselves.

The Mahout( he is the care taker of elephants) used to take the elephant daily to its bath. On the way was the tailors shop. One day the tailor offered a banana fruit to the elephant. From that day, the elephant used to bless the tailor daily. Then the tailor thought of playing tricks with the elephant. The next day when the elephant blessed him, he took the needle he was stitching and drove it in side the trunk of the elephant. The elephant was very angry . But it kept quiet. From that day, the elephant stopped blessing the tailor. After a few more days, the tailor forgot the entire thing. It was Deepavali. You know Maithree, on Deepavali days, all people get new clothes stitched. So the Tailors shop was full of clothes. The elephant that day while returning from its bath in the tank, stored lot of muddy water in its trunk. When it came near the Tailors shop it introduced its trunk inside the shop and poured all the muddy water inside the shop. All the new clothes were spoiled. The villagers got very angry with the tailor for spoiling all their clothes and beat him Thus the elephant punished the tailor.

Monkey and the Drum

Monkey and the Drum

In the forest near Madras there was a cute little monkey who could speak and sing. One day it was playing on a tree in a forest. While jumping from one tree to another, a thorn stuck to its tail. It gave great pain to the monkey. So it went to the town. On its way, it met an uncle with a knife. The monkey requested him to remove the thorn from its tail. That man also agreed and he tried to remove the thorn using his knife. Unfortunately the tail got cut. The monkey became very sad and angry. It told the man, “You have cut my tail with the knife. So you give me the knife. If you don’t, I will pinch you.” The man agreed immediately and gave his knife to the monkey. Monkey jumped here and there and started singing, “Lost I my tail but I got a knife, Dum, Dum, Dum”

While it was going here and there it met another man who was carrying a basket of mango. Poor man was not having a knife to cut the mangos. So when he saw that the monkey was having a knife, he asked the monkey, “Can you please give the knife to me? I will cut and eat a mango and give it back to you.” The monkey agreed and gave the knife to him. That man started to cut the mango. Unfortunately the knife broke, even while he was cutting the first mango. The monkey shouted at him, You broke my knife. So you give me all the mangos. If you do not I will pinch you.” The man got scared and gave the monkey, his basket of mangos, The monkey carrying the basket of mangos on his head sang, “Lost I my tail but I got a knife, Dum, Dum, Dum, Lost I my knife but I got lot of mangos Dum, Dum, Dum.”

While it was going like this the monkey met a musician with his pipe. The poor musician was very hungry. So when he saw the monkey carrying mangos, he asked, ”Dear Monkey, I am very hungry. Can you give me a few mangos.” The monkey agreed and gave the basket of mangos to him. The musician was very hungry and so he ate all the mangos in the basket. This made the monkey very angry. He told the musician, “You have finished off all my mangos. I do not like it at all. So give me your pipe. Otherwise I will bite you.” The musician did not like it but being afraid of the monkey gave his pipe to it. The monkey now sang, “Lost I my tail but I got a knife, Dum, Dum, Dum, Lost I my knife but I got lot of mangos Dum, Dum, Dum, Lost I my mangos but I got a pipe to sing, Dum, Dum, Dum.”

When it was going like this, it met a drummer who badly wanted a pipe to sing along with his drum. He asked the monkey, “ I am having only a drum. But if I play the pipe along with the drum, it would be nice. Can you give your pipe to me.” The monkey agreed. When the drummer tried to play the pipe, it got spoiled. This made the monkey very angry, It told the drummer, “You have spoiled my pipe. So you give me your drum. Otherwise I will scratch you.” The drummer was afraid of the monkey and gave the drum to it. The monkey now sang, “Lost I my tail but I got a knife, Dum, Dum, Dum, Lost I my knife but I got lot of mangos Dum, Dum, Dum, Lost Dum Dum, Dum, and I my mangos but I got a pipe to sing. Lost I my pipe but I got a drum, Dum, dumdum.” Since the monkey liked the drum very much it did not give it to anybody.

The wolf and the seven lambs

The wolf and the seven lambs

In the forest of Dandakaranya lived a goat and its seven lambs. The seven lambs were too small to go in search of food. So daily the goat used to go in search of food. It used to bring food and feed its lambs. Daily it will tell the lambs, “There is a bad wolf in the near by forest. When I am away it will come and eat all of you. So do not open the door to any body. The wolf has a rough voice and has a hairy tail.

One day when the goat had gone food hunting, the wolf found out about the lambs. It came and knocked at their door. The lambs asked, “Who are you?” The wolf told in a gruff voice, “ I am your mother.” The lambs recognized the wolf’s voice and shouted, “No, you are the wolf. You have gruff voice.”

Next day the wolf swallowed lot of butter before coming to the house of the lambs. And told in a soft voice, “I am your mother, open the door.” The lambs wanted the wolf to show its tail. The wolf did and they shouted, “You are the wolf, your tail is hairy.”

The next day, the wolf swallowed lot of butter and also tied silken cloth over its tail. It again knocked at the door of the lambs, and said softly, “I am your mother.” The lambs wanted to see its tail. When they found it was soft, they opened the door. But one of the lambs which was taking bath was closed in the bathroom. The wolf swallowed all the six lambs, went to a near by shade and started sleeping. The goat returned home to find only one lamb. Hearing the story from the lamb, they both went in search of the wolf. To their surprise they found it was sleeping. Not only that they found that some things were jumping in the wolf’s stomach. They slowly cut a small hole and could rescue all the six lambs. Whenever one lamb was taken out, they used to put a stone inside so that the wolf will not wake up. After all lambs were rescued, they also stitched the stomach of the wolf.

After some time, the wolf woke up and went to drink water in the near by tank. It was not having proper balance, as its stomach was heavy with stones. Ultimately it fell in the tank and died .The goat and lambs lived happily in the forest, after that.

The wise merchant and the cheating donkey

The wise merchant and the cheating donkey


There was a wise merchant. He used to carry all his goods to the market on the back of a donkey. He loved his donkey and used to take good care of the donkey. But the donkey was very lazy. On the way from the village to the market there was a dry river. But once in a while the river used to fill up. The donkey and the merchant used to get down in the water and cross it. The merchant was one day taking salt to the market. The donkey knew this and without his knowledge slowly bent its legs while walking in the water. Because of this the bag of salt was drenched and salt got dissolved in water. The load of the donkey came down and the merchant lost lot of money. So the next day, instead of salt the merchant loaded cotton on the back of donkey. Do you know , Maithree when cotton gets wet , it becomes heavy. The donkey did not know this. It played the same trick that day also. Then all the cotton got wet and became very heavy. The donkey thus got punished because of the wise merchant.

The fox who married a girl

The fox who married a girl


There was once a very poor girl. She was very , very pretty. There was a fox who was in the forest. The fox wanted to marry the girl. It dressed itself like a man and went to the father of the girl. Mama, wont you give your daughter in marriage to me. The girls father was pleased and said , yes. The girl’s father gave the girl in marriage. But he never knew that his daughters husband was a fox. The fox was enjoying its stay in the girls house. There was lot of good food and several feasis. After a few days the girls father asked the fox to take his daughter to his home. The fox was not having any house. But it had to agree. So it took the girl with it and they started walking. After some time, the girl asked the fox”Amman, Amman Uracha?”. This means uncle ,uncle, whether your place has come. Then the fox replied. No, No Innum Oru Aru Kadakka Venum meaning , no, no , we have to crossone more river. They walked still further. The girl again asked “ammam, Amman, Uracha”. Then the fox replied”No, No, Innum Oru Aru Kadakka venum.” . Like this a few days went by. By this time the girl understood that her husband was a fox and it did not have any home. She told her husband, we will go to my home, where we can be happy.The fox agreed and they returned home. The girl secretly told her father about the fox. That day the father got the help from his friends and drove away the fox.