Once there lived a lion in a cave.
He was strong and mighty.
One afternoon, when the lion was
sleeping a small mouse climbed on him. He played with lion's crown fur and blew
air on his whiskers.
The lion was annoyed and woke up.
He tried to catch mouse with his strong paw and kill it, but the mouse quickly
escaped.
The lion tried again and again to
pounce on the mouse but it escaped and hid in a small hole. The lion got tried
and thought to himself, “It’s a small mouse. I should not waste my energy in
killing it. I am the king of this forest and should ask someone else to kill
the mouse for me'.
The lion walked out of his cave
and went to a cat who lived in a nearby village.
The lion told the cat about the
mouse and asked her to accompany him to his cave.
When the mouse saw the cat in the
cave, he was afraid that it may kill him. So the rat confined to his hole to
remain safe from cat's attack.
The lion could now sleep
peacefully as the cat kept a close watch over the mouse. The cat continued to
live in the cave and received a part from lion's share everyday. Thus they
happily passed their days.
One day, the mouse saw the cat and
lion were sleepy. So it quietly came out of its hole. The cat reacted quickly
and pounced on the mouse and killed it. When the lion saw the dead mouse, he
was very happy.
After the mouse died, the lion
stopped giving food to the cat and ignored her. The cat grew weaker day by day
and one day she died of starvation.
Moral: People value things only
when they need them and when they are useful to them.
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