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 is the rooster,” one day a servant said to the other, “Why not kill the rooster? No crowing and no wake-up call. Without the ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’ the mistress won’t wake up and we won’t get woken up.” The other servant liked the idea. They decided to do it.
So, the rooster was killed. Without the rooster now there was no alarm at dawn. The old woman, a bad sleeper, would have no idea of the time.
She began to get out of her bed much earlier than before and wake up the servants. Earlier, she used to wait till the rooster’s ‘cock-a-doodle-doo’.
The servants now had to start working much before the dawn. They now repented the killing of the good old rooster.
Moral : Haste makes waste.
