Wednesday 30 October 2019

THE FARMER AND THE SNAKE

          One day, a farmer was returning from his fields of wheat. Suddenly, lie came across a baby snake almost frozen to death on the roadside.

          The farmer was very kindhearted person. So he picked the baby snake up from the roadside and brought it home.

          The farmer and his wife took care of the baby snake, warmed it by the open fire and gave it a warm drink of milk. They also put it into a cardboard box with straw inside it. The snake soon became a part of their family.

          Everyday, they gave milk and banana to the snake as well as their son. They looked after the baby snake like their another son. They firmly believed that the snake would do them no harm.

          Soon the snake developed into a full grown snake. It meanwhile had seen the outside world and the ways of its kind. It had learned their viciousness. Then one day the snake tried to bite the only son of the farmer. His wife saw it and screamed in horror. The farmer at once! rushed forward with his sickle. He cut the snake into two parts before it could touch the baby boy’s leg.


Moral: Never trust a vicious creature.