Elephant King and Mice | Short Story On Elephant
When summer came, the river in the forest dried up. A lot of wild animals lived there in the forest. There was a large herd of elephants, and the elephant king was watching over the herd. The king elephant was terrified when he saw the other animals dying without water.
The king knows that if he doesn’t find a solution to this problem, every elephant will die. All the elephants gathered around to think of a better solution. “If we don’t go to a place where there is water, everyone’s life will be very bad,” said the elephant king.
“Water! I know a place where there is water. But if we want to go there, we will have to walk a long distance” said an elephant. “We can go there,” said the king elephant. Then all the elephants agreed to it and started the journey.
After walking a long distance, the thirsty elephants saw a river in the distance and ran towards it. The house of a swarm of mice that had stayed on the way the elephants ran collapsed completely. All the mice suddenly attended and talked about what had happened.
Knowing the elephants had entered, the mice crowd decided, “Let us all go to the elephant king and beg him to leave this way and go to the river on the other way.” All the rats went together to the elephant herd and spoke patiently to the elephant king standing in front of them.
“My lord, we have been living near this river for many years. When your elephants run to drink water through this place, the place where we stay is completely destroyed.
We have just lost half the space. Please help us!. Tell your elephants to go the other way and drink water,” the rats asked the elephant king. “Okay, then I’ll talk to my herd,” said the elephant king. “We damaged the place of the mice when we came running.
From now on we will have to go the other way to the river”. “Aw, king! you spoke to those mice, that’s itself a great thing, never give much importance to their words, We will not agree to this,” said an elephant.
“We need their help when the time comes. From tomorrow we will have to go another way.” Said the king elephant to his crowd. The next day the elephants went to drink water as the king had said.
The elephants were happy drinking water and playing, but that happiness did not last long. One day, while the elephants were playing in the river, some hunters came across it and thought of catching those elephants.
The next day as usual the elephants were going to the river, suddenly some elephants got trapped in the rope trap kept by the hunters.
The elephant king was also trapped in it. He said to the other elephants, “Everyone go to the place where the rats are staying immediately, tell them what happened here and ask them to help us before the hunters return.” As soon as the elephants went to the rats and explained the incident happened, the rats came to the place where the elephants were trapped and saved the elephants by biting the rope.
The elephant king expressed his gratitude to the rats. One of the other elephants who mocked the rats realized that no matter how strong we are we should never mock others.
The elephants apologized to the rats and understood that no one should underestimate their talents and everyone lived happily together there.
Nice!