The greedy monkeys

Name : Muhammad Rizqon Fachril Maulana

SMA Bayt Al-Hikmah - Pasuruan
A family of monkeys lived in a forest. They often came out to play. They liked to drink wine
and wear red shoes. A hunter knew they lived in the forest and wanted to catch them. The
monkeys were very clever, they always ran away when they saw him coming.
One day, the monkeys were all playing together. Suddenly one of them thought he could smell
some wine.
“Ai-yaah! What a lovely smell! Where is it coming from?” he screamed.
The monkeys soon found that it was coming from a large jar at the side of the path. There were
several of red shoes also next to the jar. The leader of the monkeys said, “We must be careful.
I’m sure the hunter is playing a trick on us.”
Another monkey asked, “Why should he place such beautiful shoes by the side of the jar?”
As he spoke, he scratched his foot which began to itch. Yet a third monkey advised them, “We
have not so far been caught by the hunter because we have been careful.” The old monkey who
was their leader said “You’re right, We must be very careful. We don’t want the hunter to catch
us.”
“stupid old hunter, Do you really think you can catch us?”
All the other monkeys started to shout, “Silly old hunter! Stupid old hunter!” until their throats
were quite dry. They all stood in a circle around the wine jar and red shoes. They didn’t know
what to do. No one wanted to leave. Some of them licked with their lips. Others scratched their
feet.
“Can we taste just a little of the wine?” one of the monkeys asked.
Without saying any more, all the monkeys rushed towards the wine jar and opened it.
“Ai-yaah! What a marvelous smell! We’re really very lucky! What wonderful wine!”
At first the monkeys tasted the wine with their tongues only. Soon they started to swallow large
quantities of it.
Some of them put on the red shoes and jumped and danced in them. Others who had drunk too
much wine fell to the ground.
Some of the monkeys tried to run away. But they couldn’t do, so because the shoes were tied
together.
It was very easy for the hunter to catch them..
One of the monkeys said. “we’re really very unlucky.”
And the moral value of this story is “the greedy will only harm own our self”