CHAPTERS 1 - 3
THE DROWNING ANT
Some pool of water was washing off the
ant on the ground. He waved his hands randomly hoping to get hold of any object
that could make him come to an abrupt halt but there was none around, then
suddenly he looked up and spotted the housefly.
“Please help me!” shouted the ant to the
fly above. “Mr. Fly, please don’t let me drown. Just throw me a stick from up
there so that I can stay afloat!” He begged. And in reply the fly answered, “I
am so sorry Mr. Ant. But I’m in a hurry right now. So there is nothing I can do,
maybe some other time. And just in case you don’t make it, my regards to your
ancestors!”
THE
TRAPPED FLY
It wasn't long afterwards that the fly also
got caught in the spider’s web. He had wanted to make a quick detour between
the leaves of a tree when he suddenly hits a cobweb and was stuck. But luckily
for him, the spider had gone to the farm!
He continued to struggle to free
himself in the spider’s web but did not succeed and at last he got tired. Suddenly,
he looked up at the skies and saw a Pigeon flying past. Quickly he shouted on
top of his voice. “Please, Mr. Pigeon, the bird. Can you kindly set me free before
the spider returns?”
“And how do you expert me to do that?”
asked the flying bird. Then the house fly said, "if only you could
just come a little bit lower and use your beak to break the cobweb that I am
stuck in I would be very grateful; it is choking me by the seconds. I came out
to look for what my family would eat, and I wouldn't want to be eaten for
dinner by Mr. Spider and his family when they return.”
“Well…I’m sorry Mr. Fly,” replied the
bird as he soared higher. “I admit that your case is really a pathetic one but
I am in a hurry right now. So there is no time to waste. And as the saying goes,
time is money! Goodbye my friend!” And
he flew away.
When the Pigeon had gone out of sight,
the housefly began to recall the earlier event. Maybe if I had stopped to help
Mr. Ant, perhaps this wouldn't have happened to me, he thought. And even if it
did happen to me after I had helped him, I would have been happier to know that
I had saved someone else’s life before losing mine, but now it's too late. I
cannot expect to sow Cassava and reap up Banana. That is not just possible! Then
he began to cry.
THE CAGED BIRD
The pigeon continued to soar for some
time; but not so long he looked down and saw some few grains lying on the floor
of the jungle. My wife would love this,
he thought. He descended and looked around and observed that there was no single
other animal in view.
Quickly, he picked the first grain with
his beak and paused for a while. When he saw that there was still no one around
to challenge him, his confidence grew and he picked the second grain lying on
the floor. He moved some steps further and picked the third, fourth, fifth and
sixth. Then suddenly he looked forward and saw so many grains inside a bowl in
a small wooden house. “Wow!” yelled the bird aloud, “this is the lost paradise!”
He walked closer to the wooden house
and also discovered that the door was left ajar. At first he was a little bit
afraid, but when he looked around and saw that there was still no one around,
he decided to quickly enter into the wooden house and swallow as many grains as
possible before the owner would return and then get out fast!
He did as planned. And when he was
satisfied, he turned around to take his leave but he discovered that the door
had been shut behind him. He knew not exactly when it had happened to him
because he was so engrossed with the grains. Immediately he realized that he had
not entered into a house but rather a cage and was trapped inside. Suddenly his
mind also flashed-back to his earlier encounter with the housefly. “Oh, I am
trapped here too. Oh God, I haven’t been kind to Mr. Fly that needed my help at
that time at all! I haven’t been my brother’s keeper,” said he. “And this is
the way I am being punished for it. Maybe, just maybe if I had been a little bit
patient, I would have stopped to help the fly and perhaps something else would
have made me flown in a different direction and then I wouldn't have fallen for
this trap. But now it’s too late. Oh my poor wife is about to become a widow
whenever the bird catcher comes.”
He shot his eyes and began to pray for
a miracle.
To be continued...
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