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Advising A Fool: A Moral Tale

The story is about birds living in a mango tree who prepare for the rainy season by storing food and making their nests more secure, while a monkey who did not prepare gets caught in the rain and seeks shelter from the birds. The birds feel sorry for the monkey but know their small nests cannot help, and one bird advises the monkey that if he had prepared like they did, he wouldn't be in this situation, but the monkey angrily destroys the bird's nest.

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Advising A Fool: A Moral Tale

The story is about birds living in a mango tree who prepare for the rainy season by storing food and making their nests more secure, while a monkey who did not prepare gets caught in the rain and seeks shelter from the birds. The birds feel sorry for the monkey but know their small nests cannot help, and one bird advises the monkey that if he had prepared like they did, he wouldn't be in this situation, but the monkey angrily destroys the bird's nest.

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Read the next story with your teacher and classmates, after you
finish the story answer the next questions and write you answer
in your notebook.

Advising A Fool

This short story Advising A Fool is quite


interesting to all people. Enjoy reading this short
story.

On a mango tree in a jungle, there lived many


birds. They were happy in their small nests.
Before the onset of the rainy season, all the
animal of the jungle repaired their homes. The
birds also made their homes more secure.

Many birds brought twigs and leaves and others


wove their nests. “We should also store some food for our children," chirped one of the
birds. And they collected food, until they had enough to see them through the rainy
season. They kept themselves busy preparing for the tough times.

Soon the rains came. It was followed by thunder and lighting. All the animals and birds
stayed in their homes.

It continued raining for many days. One day, a monkey wet in the rain came into the
forest. He sat on a branch, shivering with cold, water dripping from its body.

The poor monkey tried his best to get shelter, but in vain. The leaves were not enough
to save him from the rains. “Brrr! It is so cold!" said the monkey.

The birds were watching all this. They felt sorry for the monkey but there was little
they could do for him. One of them said, “Brother! Our small nests are not enough to
give you shelter."

Another bird said, “All of us prepared for the rainy season. If you had, you would not
be in this piteous situation."

“How dare you tell me what to do?" said the monkey, growling at the bird. The monkey
angrily pounced on the bird’s nest, tore it and threw it on the ground. The bird and her
chicks were helpless.

The poor bird thought, “Fools never value good advice. It is better not to advise
them."

Questions:
1) What does it talk about the story?
2) According with the bird. What should you advice to the monkey?
3) If you should have been the monkey. What should you in his situation?
4) Have you sometime lived the situation like this?

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