The story of the
elephant and the sparrow
Once upon a time there lived a sparrow with her husband
on a tree. She had built a nice nest and laid her eggs in the nest. One
morning, a wild elephant with spring fever feeling restive came to the tree
in search of shade and in a rage broke the branch of the tree on which the
nest was residing. Unluckily all the sparrow eggs were lost though both
parents were saved. The she-sparrow was deep in lament.
Seeing her lament, the woodpecker bird, a friend of hers offered her
consolation that she would think of a way of killing the elephant. Then she
went to her friend the gnat, who in turn went to the counselor frog for
advice. The frog then devised a scheme for killing the elephant. He asked
the gnat to buzz in the ears of the elephant, so that the elephant would be
thrilled to listen to the music of the gnat and close its eyes. Then she
asked the woodpecker to pluck his eyes. She herself would be on the edge of
a pit and would croak misleading the elephant to think that it is a pond.
The next day at noon the three carried out the plan and the elephant was
killed when he fell flat into a pit after being blinded by the woodpecker
when he closed his eyes in response to the gnat. So the revenge was taken
with collective wit of all three animals.
MORAL:
Wit is superior to brute force |