THE
ANT FINDS THE MONKEY
The
snake crawled out of sight and the Ant continued his search for a liberator for
the Grass cutter. But as he was passing by the side of a ditch, he heard the Monkey’s
frail cry for help but he was out of sight. “Whoever is passing by please help
me. I am in the ditch!” The monkey’s voice grew louder. Then the ant moved closer to the hole and saw
the monkey, below.
“Mr
Monkey,” said the ant gladly, “I have been looking for you.”
“And
here I am.” Replied the monkey sadly. “I am so ashamed of myself. I refused to
help a fellow animal and see, here I am too, trapped in a ditch. Now I believe
in the saying that what goes around comes around!”
“You
don’t have to feel that way.” Continued the ant, “that you refused
to
help the grass cutter does not make you completely worthless.”
“Has
the Grass cutter told you already? Asked the monkey, “now I’m a complete
failure in the animal kingdom. Every other animal would talk bad about me. I
should have assisted the poor fellow when I had the chance.”
“The
grass-cutter also felt this way too after refusing to help the Pigeon. So you
don’t have to feel too much guilt yourself. The snake could have helped her out
but…”
“The
snake, the snake!” whispered the Monkey as he remembered the snake. He
continued, “Shh! Please don’t shout. I don’t want the snake to overhear our
conversation. I am sure if he finds out that I was in here he would crawl in and
bite me to death!”
“But that can not be true!” corrected the tiny
Ant, “Mr. Snake has sent
me
to give to you a big thank you for saving him.”
At
first, he monkey did not understand what the ant was saying, but
when
the ant took time and explained everything that the snake had said
and
the monkey too was a little bit happy. Then he said, “Now I am glad to know
that I am not as worthless as I thought I was. But how can I get out of my
present situation. I need to go home, can you please my little friend help me
in my present situation?”
The
ant answered, “Yes! But I still have to look around for a bigger animal that
can rescue you from this ditch before the rain begins. I want you to be the one
to free the grass cutter. Thereafter the grass cutter can free the bird and the
bird too can free the spider and we can all go home!”
So the ant went to search round. But
as he was walking he noticed the track that the crawling snake had made on the
ground and he realized it looked just like a long rope. Then an idea occurred
to him and he began to follow the pathway made by the snake!
To be continued ...
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