Once, a hunter was hunting in a forest. After sometime, he felt hungry. He saw a wild boar coming. He shot an arrow at the boar. The arrow pierced the boar’s neck and protruded at its back.
But the boar, before falling on the ground, killed the hunter with his pointed tusks. Soon both the hunter and the boar were lying dead at the same spot.
At the same time, a hungry jackal happened to pass through that place. He saw a man and an animal, both lying dead there. ‘What a good luck I have. There is so much food to eat for days together,’ said the jackal to himself. He began to think whose flesh to eat first—the man’s or the animal’s.
He decided to go slow while eating so that the food might last for a longer period.
The jackal decided first to lick the blood and eat a little flesh stuck round the point of the arrow. But as soon as he put the pointed tip of the arrow in his mouth, it pierced his jaws and went through his head. The jackal died on the spot.
Moral—Greed never pays.
