SO THAT WE CAN ALL GO HOME 13

THEY ALL TOOK A BOW

          They arrived at the ditch and the snake crawled in as earlier planned. The monkey was glad to get out before the erosion would come. Quickly, he ran to the trapped grass cutter and freed him and even put some bandages around his wounded leg.  The grass cutter limped to the caged bird and freed him before the bird catcher would return. The bird too quickly flew to the top of the tree and broke the cobweb to free the weak fly before the spider would return.

         

          The fly was happy and thanked the bird, but the bird refused to accept the compliment and directed it to the grass cutter instead. The grass cutter in turn refused and directed it to the monkey. But Mr. Monkey also refused and directed it to the snake. The Snake too wouldn’t accept such compliment either; and said he was only returning an earlier favour done to him by the monkey himself. Then he remembered their little friend and said, “But we all should be most thankful to the Ant here, because without him going the extra mile, despite all his troubles too, none of us here would have thought of returning home by now.”

  “Thank you Mr. Ant.”They all echoed uniformly. And they bowed for their little friend.

“I accept your compliments, “said the Ant. “But I am still very grateful to Mr. Snake because if he hadn’t annoyed the eagle so much, I am sure no Plume would have accidentally dropped. And without that I would have drowned. And if I had drowned I wouldn’t have known what would have

happened next.”

          At first the snake was speechless, he knew he did not really deserve the compliment but reluctantly accepted and said, “You are welcome! But I still want to seize this opportunity to thank you specially my little friend. You have shown us all that even though one may be small

he does not necessarily have a small heart. Yours is the biggest heart here, it is forgiving and compassionate. And your example today has really taught us all a big lesson; we need to start standing up for one another and stop being selfish! Everyone is too busy to care about what the other person’s problem is. Despite Mr. Ant’s problems, he was able to demonstrate to us that other animal’s concerns were his too. We really want to thank you once again Mr Ant.”

          Simultaneously they all re-echoed the word, “Thank you!” They took a bow once again for their little friend for the last time and they all went back home!

SUMMARY

(SO THAT WE CAN ALL GO HOME!)

            A kind Ant was refused help by a fellow insect, the housefly.  But not so long, the housefly also got into trouble and needed help from the pigeon and was also denied.  The denial went on further until the Eagle’s plume miraculously dropped from the sky.

            While returning home the ant saw the troubled housefly in the spider’s cobweb but he wouldn't want to repay evil for evil. He decided to act fast but discovered that the process was more complicated than he had imagined.