59 Moral Stories

When the jackal, the wolf and the hyena went into business with the lion, it was agreed that losses and profits would be shared equally by all the four. It so happened that, one day, they hunted a buffalo and then a shareholders’ meeting was held to divide the game into four equal parts.The meeting […]

There was a farmer. He had four sons. All four were youthful and healthy but were lazy. No work they would do. They made merry on what their father earned.The farmer was fed up with his idling and worthless sons. He was worried about their future. What would come of them after his death?He used

He was, of course, an athlete, but very ambitious and loud-mouthed. One day, tired of being jeered at by the spectators at home, he decided to leave his country and put up his show abroad.When he returned home, he began to tell each and everyone his stories of success. He would say: “In Sydney, I

A boy used to graze sheep in the forest pasture.He was very mischievous.He loved to befool others by playing pranks. Being lonely in the jungle was very boring. His idle mind would keep itself busy by thinking of new pranks and mischiefs. There were some fields near the forest. The farmers used to work in

A village couple was digging the field to sow seeds. Suddenly, their shovels hit something hard on the ground. It was a big silver pot. They took it out and carried it home. Back in home, the man put his shovel in the silver pot. Next day, when they looked for the shovel both of

Once an antelope was drinking water from a pond. It saw its reflection in the water. It prided over its magnificent antlers. It thought, ‘How pretty my horns are! They are a work of the finest art. No other animal has such treasures.’ Then it looked at its thin stick-like legs and sighed. It muttered,

One day, a jackal was roaming around in a thick forest in search of food. Suddenly, it saw a wild boar who was rubbing his tusks against the trunk of a tree.After a lot of thinking the jackal was unable to understand why the boar was doing like this. So the jackal asked curiously, “Why

Once a farmer found an injured hen in a forest. He brought the bird home and nursed it. After getting well the hen said, “You saved my life. I will reward you with a golden egg daily.”The farmer was delighted. Now every day, the hen laid a golden egg and the farmer sold it at

A nightingale lived in a tree. For the last few days, she had been making a nest. She was getting ready to lay her eggs in it.A snake lived in the burrow of the tree. It was watching the nightingale who was very happy and preparing to lay eggs.One final day, the nightingale laid two

There was an old woman. She had two servants. She used to wake up her servants as soon as the rooster crowed, ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’. The servants did not like being put to work so early in the morning. They always thought of finding a way of not having to rise so early.“The root of our problem

A frog once decided that he would become as huge as a bull.So the frog began to inhale more and more air, and the more he breathed, the bigger he became.“Am I huge enough now?” he said hopefully to his companions, who were watching the show very intently.His companions then had another look at the

Once, two frogs hopped into a dairy. Large pots of milk were lying there.The two fell into a pot that was half-full of milk.They tried hard to leap out of the pot. But there was no solid foothold to help them come out. It was a difficult task.Now they began to swim around to stay

Ratan and Mohan were good friends. They had great confidence in each other. Once, they decided to enjoy their holidays together. They went out to a hill- station for a week.Both enjoyed their stay at the hill-station. After seven days, they planned to return. When they reached the station to board the train, they found

There was a pasture at the edge of a forest. The shepherds of the nearby villages came there with their cattle flocks. While the cattle grazed, the shepherds spent there time playing. There was a big old tree in the pasture. It had a big hollow but with a narrow opening. The shepherds put their

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