A monkey was sitting on a high branch of a riverside tree. After sometime some fishermen came and cast their nets out into the river. The monkey watched them with great interest. When it was noon time, the fishermen went off to take their lunch leaving their nets on the river-bank.
The monkey came down from the tree. He picked up the net and tried to cast it in the same manner as the fishermen had done. But the net, instead of falling into the river, fell on the monkey. The more the monkey tried to come out of it, the more he got entangled in it.
Now it was too late by the time the monkey realized his folly of imitating blindly without having the required skill.
Moral : Think first and then act.
THE MONKEY AND THE NET
