الوسم: Short

These stories are very helpful to be good in English

Once upon a time, in an island there lived all the feelings and emotions : Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to them that the island would sink! So all constructed boats and left. Except for Love

Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help

Richness was passing by Love in a boat. Love said
"Richness, can you take me with you
Richness answered, "Sorry Love, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat and so there is no place here for you

Love next asked Vanity who was also sailing by. Vanity was also ready with the same answer
"I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat," Vanity answered

Sadness was close by so Love asked, "Sadness, take me along with you"
"Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!", sadness said in a sullen voice

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so preoccupied with her happiness that she did not even hear when Love called her

Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come, Love, I will take you." It was an elder. An overjoyed Love jumped up into the boat and in the process forgot to ask where they were going. When they arrived at a dry land, the elder went her own way

Realizing how much was owed to the elder, Love asked Knowledge another elder, "Who Helped me
"It was Time," Knowledge answered
"Time?" thought Love. Then, as if reading the face of Love, Knowledge smiled and answered, "Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is

cock was scratching the ground with his claws looking for a tasty morsel to eat. While doing so, he chanced to turn over a stone and find a shining gem under it

"A Cock-a doodle-do !" cried the cock and said, "It looks very fine and it may be valuable to some people. But I would rather have found a nice grain of corn

MORAL: Gems can’t pacify hunger

A thirsty crow once found a pitcher with a little water in it. But when he tired to drink the water, he could not. The pitcher was tall and his beak didn’t reach the water

The cleaver crow thought and hit upon a plan. He went on dropping pebbles into the pitcher. The water rose up to its neck and he quenched his thirst

Once a hare was roaming near a lake in a forest. Suddenly he saw a tortoise and mocked at him saying – "Hurry up, you slow coach! Don’t you find life very dull taking so long to cover a few yards? I could have run to the other side of the lake by now

The tortoise felt teased and dared the hare to a race. The race was to be through the wood to a fixed goal

The hare agreed laughingly. In a few minutes he was away and out of sight

"What a funny race it is!" he said to himself , "I am already half -way through. But it is too-too cold; why not have a nap in the warm sunshine

The tortoise walked steadily on and on. In a short time, he passed by the sleeping hare

The hare slept far longer then he had intended. When he woke up at last, he looked around in surprise and said to himself," Not even a sigh of the poor tortoise anywhere so far; I had better trot along and finish the race

The hare ran to the goal. He was amazed to see all the animals cheering the tortoise who had arrived just a minute earlier. how ashamed he felt indeed

MORAL : Slow and steady wins the race

A fox was once caught in a trap. It was only after a tough struggle that she could get free. But, to her sorrow, her beautiful tail had been cut off and left in the trap

"How ugly I shall look!" moaned the fox, " won’t the other foxes laugh at me

Thinking hard, the fox hit upon a plan to save herself from being laughed at. She called a meeting of his friends and said, "Brothers! have you ever wondered why after all, we carry these long tails?" Let us cut them off and be free from their nuisance

But the other foxes had noticed her cut-off tail. They laughed aloud and replied, "You used to say that tails looked very fine when your own was all right. Now that you have lost yours, you want us to lose ours too

MORAL : Dirty tricks seldom work