Long time ago there lived a ferocious lion in the
forest. It was a greedy lion and started killing all the animals in the
forest. Seeing this, the animals gathered and decided to approach the
lion with the offer of one animal of each species volunteering itself to
be eaten by the lion everyday. So every day it was the turn of one of
the animals and in the end came the rabbits' turn. The rabbits chose a
old rabbit among them. The rabbit old was wise. It decided to take its
own sweet time to go to the Lion. The Lion was getting impatient on not
seeing any animal come by and swore to kill all animals the next day.
The rabbit then went to the Lion by sunset. The
Lion was angry at him. But the wise rabbit was calm and slowly told the
Lion that it was not his fault. He told the Lion that a group of rabbits
were coming to him for the day but on the way, an angry Lion attacked
them all and ate all rabbits but himself. Somehow he escaped to reach
safely, the rabbit said. He said that the other Lion was challenging the
supremacy of the Lion. The Lion was naturally very enraged and asked to
be taken to the location of the other Lion.
The wise rabbit agreed and led the Lion towards a
deep well filled with water. Then he showed the Lion his reflection in
the water of the well. The Lion was furious and started growling and
naturally its image in the water, the other Lion, was also equally
angry. Then the Lion jumped into the water to attack the other Lion and
kill it but lost its life in the well. Thus the wise rabbit saved the
forest and all animals from the proud Lion.
Story moral: Intelligence wins over might.
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