Tuesday 17 October 2017

The Camel and The Jackal

          In a wild jungle there lived two friends, a camel and a jackal small river flowed in a zigzag course by it. One day the jackal said, “Friend camel, if you carry me across the river, I can show you a fine field of sugarcane. You may.eat to your fill of the sugarcane there and I shall cat crabs on the bank of the river.”

          “What a nice suggestion it is, my friend I” said the camel. “You wish will be fulfilled now.”

          The camel carried the jackal on his back and swain across the river. His joy knew no bounds at the sight of ripe sugar canes.  He entered into the field and began to eat to his heart’s content.

          The jackal ran to the bank of the river. He got plenty of crabs there and soon ate to his fill. To make the camel quickly finish his dinner, he began to run to and fro and howled at the top of his voice.

          The villagers came to the sugarcane field with sticks. They beat the camel mercilessly and drove him out.

          Without a word the camel began to cross the river with the jackal on his back. In the middle of the river the camel began to roll over in deep water. Down went the jackal and he was drowned.


Moral: Tit for tat.