Effect Caused By The Enemies | snake and mongoose story
A river was flowing in the middle of a forest. A crane lived with his wife in atree on the river bank. Each time the female crane nests and lays eggs a large carnivore(snake) eats the eggs. The crane and his wife were very sad. The crane had a crab friend.
One day, Crane went to his friend and told him his problem sadly.
“That evil thief often eats our egg. Idon’t know any way to stop this.” Don’t worry, Crab comforted the crane and then said: “Don’t regret having afriend like me. We will think and find asolution.”
Sitting next to the crane, the crab had an idea. Suddenly he jumped up and said, “Friend! A fantastic plan hasemerged,”said Crab in crane’s ear.
Delighted to hear it, the crane immediately flew to its nest and explained the plan to his wife.
It was very vibrant in implementing that plan. “Can this be accomplishedas you say?” Asked his wife.
“Is there something wrong with whatwe are doing? Execute the planafter thinking twice again,” the crane ignored his wife’s words. It was eager to implement the idea quickly.
The crane went to the riverbank. Began to fish,got a lot of small fish. Went to a pond nearby where a Mongoose lived and kept a fish outside its burrow and went a little far and kept down another fish. Thus kept the fish in a row and ended up in the tree where the crane’s nest was built.
The mongoose came out of the burrow smelling the fish. “Ah, here’s afish!”. He shouted and happily ate the fish immediately.
Next to next the mongoose ate the fishes and reached the tree where the crane lived. Then there were no morefish and it was looking around for fishand it found the snake.
‘There a battle began between the snake and the mongoose.’ The battle lasted for a long time. The crane was watching everything from the tree.
Eventually the mongoose killed the snake. The cranes who saw this fight from the nest were relieved when the snake died.
The next day the mongoose came the same way with the idea that the fish would be available to eat as well. Reached the tree with no food available.
Climbed up the tree and saw if anything was available to eat. The two cranes that had gone fishing in the river were returning by that time. They saw the mongoose descending from the tree.
Flew and reach the nest. This time the mongoose ate the crane’s eggs!
“Aw! Did we eliminate the first enemy just to get a new enemy?” We got rid of the snake. Now the mongoose is destroying our eggs! The crane said to his wife sadly.
Justice of this snake and mongoose story is “Think well and act”.