STORY 1

The Lion and the Mouse

Once when a lion, the king of the jungle, was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down on him. This
soon awakened the lion, who placed his huge paw on the mouse, and opened his big jaws to swallow him.

“Pardon, O King!” cried the little Mouse, “Forgive me this time. I shall never repeat it and I shall never
forget your kindness. And who knows, I may be able to do you a good turn one of these days!”

The Lion was so tickled by the idea of the mouse being able to help him that he lifted his paw and let him
go.

Sometime later, a few hunters captured the lion, and tied him to a tree. After that they went in search of a
wagon, to take him to the zoo.

Just then the little mouse happened to pass by. On seeing the lion’s plight, he ran up to him and gnawed
away the ropes that bound him, the king of the jungle.

“Was I not right?” said the little mouse, very happy to help the lion.

STORY 3

The Eagle Who Lived Like a Hen

In a forest an eagle lived on a tree. It had built a nest wherein to lay its eggs. There the eagle would hatch its
eggs all through the day.

Under the same tree there lived a hen. The hen had also laid eggs during the same period when the eagle had
laid its eggs.

One day, while the eagle had gone for hunting, a bear climbed up the tree to eat the eagle’s eggs. The bear
had finished three of the eggs when the fourth one slipped off its hands and fell into the hen’s nest. On
returning, the eagle could not find her eggs. Feeling terribly upset, she decided to leave the place.

The hen which lived under the tree saw the eagle’s egg by the side of her eggs. She felt eggs pity on the
eagle’s egg, and decided to hatch it too. After a few days, the hen’s chicks hatched. The eagle’s chick
hatched, too.

The hen would feed all the chicks, including the eagle’s chick, as if it were her own. Soon the chicks began
to grow.

The young chicks would listen to their mother’s sounds and try to imitate her. The eagle’s chick also picked
up the hen’s sounds. The chicks would all play together and make lots of noise.

Within no time the hen’s chicks as well as the eagle’s chick grew up to their full size. The eagle’s chick
never realized that it was an eagle and not a hen. Considering itself a hen, the eagle would. eat hen’s food,
would walk and run like other hens and would make sounds like hens. The eagle never learnt to fly like
other eagles and lived its whole life like a hen only.
A Town Mouse and A Country Mouse

A Town Mouse and a Country Mouse were friends. The Country Mouse one day invited his friend to come
and see him at his home in the fields. The Town Mouse came and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns
and roots the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour.

The flavour was not much to the taste of the guest and presently he broke out with “My poor dear friend,
you live here no better than the ants. Now, you should just see how I fare! My larder is a regular horn of
plenty. You must come and stay with me and I promise you shall live on the fat of the land."

So when he returned to town he took the Country Mouse with him and showed him into a larder containing
flour and oatmeal and figs and honey and dates.

The Country Mouse had never seen anything like it and sat down to enjoy the luxuries his friend provided.
But before they had well begun, the door of the larder opened and some one came in. The two Mice
scampered off and hid themselves in a narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable hole. Presently, when all was
quiet, they ventured out again. But some one else came in, and off they scuttled again. This was too much
for the visitor. "Good bye," said he, "I'm off. You live in the lap of luxury, I can see, but you are surrounded
by dangers whereas at home I can enjoy my simple dinner of roots and corn in peace."

Elephant and Friends

One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends.

He saw a monkey on a tree.
“Will you be my friend?" asked the elephant.
Replied the monkey, “You are too big. You can not swing from trees like me."
Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to be his friends.
But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow!"
Then the elephant met a frog.
“Will you be my friend? He asked.
“How can I?" asked the frog.
“You are too big to leap about like me."
The elephant was upset. He met a fox next.
“Will you be my friend?" he asked the fox.
The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big."
The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives.
The elephant asked them what the matter was.
The bear replied, “There is a tier in the forest. He’s trying to gobble us all up!"
The animals all ran away to hide.
The elephant wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest.
Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating up whoever he could find.
The elephant walked up to the tiger and said, “Please, Mr. Tiger, do not eat up these poor animals."
“Mind your own business!" growled the tiger.
The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick.
The frightened tiger ran for his life.
The elephant ambled back into the forest to announce the good news to everyone.
All the animals thanked the elephant.
They said, “You are just the right size to be our friend."

The Cat and The Fox

A cat and a fox were once discussing about hounds.

The cat said, “I hate hounds. They are very nasty animals. They hunt and kill us”.
The fox said, “I hate hounds more than you”. .
The cat asked, “How do you save yourself from hounds?”
The fox replied, “There are many tricks to get away from hounds”.
The cat asked “Can you say what your tricks are?”
“They are very simple”, said the fox. He added, “I can hide behind thick bushes. I can run along thorny
hedges. I can hide in burrows. There are many more such tricks”.
Now it was the turn of the fox to ask the cat about her tricks.
The fox asked, “How many tricks do you know?”
The cat replied, “I know just one trick”.
The Fox sneered, “Oh! How sad! You know only one trick? What is your trick?”
The cat was about to answer. But, she found a flock of hounds fast approach. She said, “I am going to do it
now. Because the hounds are coming”.
Saying these words, the cat ran up a nearby tree safe from the hounds. The fox tried all his tricks but the
hounds out beat him. “My one trick is better than all his tricks”, said the cat to herself.