[JAI MA KALI]
                    THE CALLOW MONKEYS
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   Once upon a time there lived a king who owned a beautiful garth. An experienced gardener was employed to maintain and look after the garth carefully.The gardener was very serious and devoted to his job.He pampered the various plants and loved the garden to the hilt.
 Now the gardener was unable to enjoy a holiday as he was fully occupied all the time in performing the various chores related to gardening. Besides,he was apprehensive to leave the garden even for an hour at a time unattended lest it might be extirpated by the animals.
     After a few days mingled into eternity,a fair was held in the city.It attracted the people to visit it and every Tom,Dick And Harry praised and talked about the fair.The gardener ,too, longed to visit the fair but the gardening shackled his feet to go anywhere leaving the garth.
  One day, one of his chums urged him,"My dear pal,come with me to the fair.you don't realise what are you missing.Don't be a chump."
   But the gardener whimpered,"If I go,who will water my plants?"
 The conversations between the two were within the earshot of a monkey.He felt pity at the plight of the gardener and wanted to help him.He skedaddled to the gardener and chattered,"Don't lose heart.I am at your beck and call.I will look after the garden while you are gone.
    The gardener was cock-a-hoop to hear this.He let out a yowl of joy and trooped out for the fair with his buddy.The monkey spent sometime in gawping admirably at the pretty plants.Then he summoned his barrel of monkeys and gibbered to them,"Hi pals,I need your help in watering these plants this evening."The other monkeys nodded in consent.
 Evening came.The monkeys skedaddled forth and jostled each other to fill the water cans.But they were as green as grass for this job.So they asked the incharge,"How much water has to be put on each plant?"
   The incharge monkey was also a callow monkey vis-a-vis gardening.Gardening was all Greek and Latin to him. He scratched his head for few seconds,then blurted out,"The amount of water depends on the size of the roots."
 To ascertain the size of the roots,the monkeys began to pull up the plants.The larger roots were given more water and the smaller ones less.
   By the time the job was completed,the beautiful and adorable garth was turned into a pathetic mess. The entire garden was fully extirpated.
  When the gardener returned,he was aghast and shell-shocked to see the pitiable plight of his beloved garth.He tore his hair in utter despair and burst into uncontrollable tears.
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MORAL------A CALLOW PERSON WILL BUNGLE THE THINGS.
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THE PERSPICACIOUS PARROIS

                                            [JAI MA KALI]
                  THE PERSPICACIOUS PARROTS
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     Once upon a time a pair of prepossessing parrots dwelt in a nest on a conifer in a dense woodland.They loved travelling and sitting cooped up in the nest was most galling to them.They would make frequent jaunts far and wide and visit new places.
     One day it so happened that they flew into the garden of the king.The king's flunkeys managed to trap them and brought them before the king. The king was highly impressed to see the amazingly attractive parrots.He enjoined his factotums to keep the birds in a special golden cage.The parrots were pampered a lot and fed on the best scrumptious viands of their choice.
  The news of the birds spread like wild fire.People from the far off areas flocked to the palace to see the parrots.Even the royal guests would tarry for a moment to look admiringly at the birds.
        Days were rolling by comfortably until one day the lackeys of the king brought to the palace a very huge black ape.People had not seen such a big ape before.Soon the people's attention drifted to the ape.He became the bull's eye of the people. Crowd of people flocked to the palace to have a look at the beast and would burst into peals of laughter at his pranks and antics.
    Now the pair of parrots felt humiliated,neg-
lected,dejected and rejected.They were even not properly fed and looked after.One of the birds regrettably cooed,"We are now unwanted and being treated as 'persona non grata'.Let us skedaddle from here and fly to somewhere else."
   The other parrot who was a tad wiser than of the two ,chirped,"My dear chum,don't be disheartened and take it amiss.Have patience.People would soon be fed up with the antics of the ape and realise our true worth."
    Over the period of time the ape grew vainglorious and started misbehaving with the people. He became a rogue.His mischief started soaring higher and higher .At last ,the king became furious .He commanded his vassals to drive away the ape back to the forest.
     Now the people once again started paying due attention to the parrots.

 MORAL:  HAVE PATIENCE.A PERSON'S TRUE WORTH WOULD ALWAYS BE RECOGNISED.
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