Once
upon a time there was a pigeon who used to live on a nest close to
a kitchen. The cooks of the kitchen used to like her very much and often
used to feed her grain. She liked the place and her life was fine. One
day a crow saw the pigeon and saw how it was getting wonderful food from
the kitchen. Then one day she made friends with the pigeon, and under
the pretext of friendship, she somehow made the pigeon to share the nest
with the crow. The pigeon then told her that they could spend time
together discussing politics,religion etc but when it came to food both
had their own ways. So she suggested the crow to search for her own
food. But the crow was impatient and the very reason she had made
friends with the pigeon was for the food. The crow wanted meat and all
the pigeon got was grains from the kitchen.
The crow could not wait any longer and
ultimately decided that she visit the kitchen directly for the food.
Thinking so it silently crept down the chimney into the kitchen.
She got the smell of a fish being curried on the pan. She got greedy and
went ahead and tried to get the fish. But in the process she disturbed a
ladle, and created a noise. This alerted the cook who was in the
neighbouring room and he caught hold of the crow and killed
it.
MORAL: Greed kills
intelligence.
