Sunday, November 20, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Aesop’s Fables : Boar with Foresight
Let us enjoy reading this one of Aesop’s Fables of Boar with Foresight .A wild boar was rubbing his tusks against a tree.
A fox passing by asked him what he was doing.
"My tusks are my weapons," said the boar. "I'm sharpening them."
"Why waste time sharpening your weapons when there's no danger in sight?" said the fox. "You're being foolish."
Just then a hunter appeared on the scene.
Frightened by the boar's sharpened tusks, he turned on the fox instead and shot him dead.
Moral : Be prepared.
Aesop’s Fables : A Cartload of Almonds
Let us enjoy reading this one of Aesop’s Fables of A Cartload of Almonds . A squirrel joined the service of the King of the Forest, the lion.
He did whatever work was given him, quickly and well. The lion became fond of him and promised to give him a cart full of almonds as pension when he retired.
The squirrel envied the other squirrels in the forest because of their carefree life. He longed to run up and down trees and leap from branch to branch like them but he could not leave the king's side and even if he could he had to move with courtly dignity.
He consoled himself with the thought that at the end of his career, he would receive a cart full of almonds, a food that few squirrels got to taste in their lifetime.
"They will envy me then," he would tell himself.
The years passed. The squirrel became old and then it was time for him to retire.
The king gave a grand banquet in his honor and at the end of it, presented him with a cart full of almonds as he had promised.
The squirrel had waited so long for this day but when he saw the almonds, he was seized with sadness.
He realized they were of no use to him now. He had lost all his teeth.
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