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Hello! children. We're back with one more wonderful age old moral story. Hope you will enjoy reading the story. Here goes the story: Once upon a time, there lived a poor woodcutter in a small village. He was hard working and honest. He had a neighbor who was also a woodcutter. But he was a lazy man and never went to work. One day the honest woodcutter went to cut trees in the nearby woods. “Oops! There aren’t many trees here”. I’ll walk up to the river”, he thought. “Wow! Such a beautiful place. It's full of trees here!” I’ll cut one.” said the woodcutter to himself. Soon he started cutting a tree. And Lo! His axe fell into the river. “Oh! No”, shouted the woodcutter. “Oh! God, what shall I do now? How can I earn money now?” he sat on the river bank and cried bitterly. Suddenly, there was a dazzling light on the river. He was surprised to see the river goddess in front of him. “Why are you crying, my child?” asked the goddess. The poor woodcutter sobbed and narrat...

Children, here is a wonderful moral story from Hitopadesha Tales. This is a collection of short stories like the Panchatantra stories and Jataka Tales that have originated in the ancient times in India. These stories are rich in moral values and are re-told from generation to generation. Hitopadesha Tales comprise of many short stories on 'good (welfare) cousel' ('Hita' + 'upadesha' = 'Hitopadesha' in Sanskrit language). These stories are rich in values and ethics and were composed by a scholar named Narayana Pandit. Here is a wonderful story from Hitopadesha Tales which is about a traveler who was eaten up by a tiger due to his greedy nature. The story goes like this: Courtesy: Google Images Once upon a time, an old tiger was sitting on the bank of a pond posing like a sage with the holy 'darbha' (grass) in one of his paws. He had a gold bangle in the other paw. "Hey travelers!" shouted the tiger. "Come here and take this...

Hi! kids!. Here is yet another interesting moral story for you all. To begin with, do you know who is known as the King of the Jungle? Yes, it is Simha - the Lion. So, lets read the story of the Lion and the little mouse and learn the moral of the story. Courtesy: Google Images One day a lion was in good sleep when a small mouse started jumping on it and playing with its mane. Children, do you know what is 'mane'? Right, it is the hair round the lion's face. Only male lions have the mane round their face while the lioness (female lion) do not have. While the mouse was jumping and playing on the lion's mane, it suddenly jumped on his nose which irritated the lion and lo! grrr! grrr! what happened? The King of the Jungle woke up and was much irritated as he got disturbed from his good sleep. He saw the little mouse and caught hold of it with anger. "How dare you disturb my sleep and wake me up?" grumbled the lion. "I will punish you by eating you u...

Children, here is one more funny yet interesting moral story for you. This is the story about a foolish crow who pretended himself to be a peacock and thus was left alone. The story goes like this: Once a crow saw a beautiful peacock and thought to himself, "O! how beautiful the peacock looks! How bright, colorful and attractive are his tail feathers!". He looked at his own dark feathers and felt sad. "I'll make myself look as pretty as the beautiful peacock", said the crow to himself. He kept thinking, "What to do, if I have to look myself like the peacock?" Suddenly an idea struck to his mind on seeing the peacock feathers that were dropped on the ground. "I'll stuck these peacock feathers on my back and make myself look like the beautiful peacock" thought the crow. So he collected many peacock feathers and stuck these to his back. He started feeling himself as pretty as the beautiful peacock and went to the peacocks to make...

Hi kids! We have come up with another old moral story for you all. Yes, it is the story of a poor cap seller who acted cleverly during the difficult time and thus could come out of the difficult situation. From this story, you can learn how to act clever to overcome the difficult time in life. The story goes like this: Courtesy: Google Images One day a poor cap seller went to a nearby village for selling his caps. He sold few of his caps in the village and walked to another nearby village for selling the rest of his caps. The cap seller walked long distance and as it was afternoon, he was too tired. So he sat under the shade of a tree and slept keeping his bundle of caps beside him. There was a troupe of monkeys on the tree. While the cap seller was sleeping, the monkeys climbed down the tree and opened his bundle of caps. They were so fascinated with the colorful caps that each monkey snatched one cap and wore it on its head. The monkeys climbed up the tree, sat on the branches ...

Children, one more old story for you where you can see how two foolish goats were punished due to their ego. Now you might be wondering what is 'ego'. It is a very strong feeling of 'I'. Courtesy: Google Images Once upon a time, two goats were crossing a narrow wooden bridge over a brook in the opposite direction. When they came in the mid of the bridge, they were facing each other. The wooden bridge was very narrow and only one can walk on the bridge at a time. Both the goats cannot criss-cross. So one goat has to go back and give way to the other. But none of the goat was willing to go back and each one wanted to show its supremacy over the other. What is 'supremacy? It is a feeling that shows that 'I am great'. They started fighting one with the other in order to cross the bridge first. Alas! both the goats fell into the river and were drowned. So what lesson did you learn from the story? Moral: Try to be wise and try to come out of the strong feeling...

Hi children, here is an interesting moral story for you. This is an age old story about a dog which lost its bone i.e its food because it wanted to have more and more. So, let's read the story and learn the moral. Image Courtesy: Google Images One day, a dog was walking with a bone in its mouth. On its way, he had to cross a brook. Children, do you know what is a brook? A brook is just a small stream of water. The dog started walking on the wooden bridge which was laid across the brook. While crossing the brook, the dog looked into the stream of water. "Hey!, there's a dog in the river with a bone in its mouth" thought the dog which was crossing the wooden bridge. The dog on the bridge did not know that he was seeing his own image in the river water. The dog had a bone in his mouth but he wanted the other bone too from the dog he saw in the river water. "Bow-wow", "bow-wow" barked the dog for getting the bone from the dog in the river. So, child...

Hi children, one more old moral story for your all about a fox which could not get its food. Yes, it is the story of sour grapes. The story goes like this. Once upon a time a fox was feeling very hungry. So it went in search of food from one place to the other. Finally it came across a vineyard. There were many bunches of grapes hanging down in the yard. The fox's mouth started watering on seeing the bunches of grapes. The fox wanted to eat the grapes, so it jumped up to reach a bunch of grapes. But, alas!, it could reach the bunch. It jumped and jumped and tried to reach the bunch. But it could not reach the hanging bunch of grapes. The disappointed fox went to another hanging bunch and tried to reach it. But it could not reach this bunch as well. The hungry fox tried and tried and tried with each of the hanging bunch of grapes but could not succeed in reaching any of the bunch. Finally, the fox gave up its trial of jumping to reach the grapes. It walked away saying, "I am ...

Hi, children here is an age old moral story for you. This is a story of a crow which acted smartly in the right way to find a solution for its problem instead of losing hope and crying without thinking for a solution. Yes you got it, this is the story of a thirsty crow or the clever crow. Once on a hot summer morning a crow was cawing out of thirst. It was feeling very thirsty, so it went on searching for water everywhere but could not find water anywhere. The poor crow was tired of searching for water in the hot weather. It lost all its energy and was feeling extremely weak. The crow continued to search without losing hope. After it searched and searched and searched, finally he found an earthen pot. The crow felt happy on seeing the pot. It went near the pot and peeped in. "Oops!, there is too little water in it and I can't reach the water. What should I do now?" thought the crow. The crow did not get disappointed but it started to think and think and think to achieve...