The story of
the foolish lion and the clever rabbit
Once upon a time there lived a ferocious lion in the
forest. It was a greedy lion and started killing animals in the forest
indiscriminately. Seeing this, the animals gathered and decided to approach
the lion with the offer of one animal of each species volunteering itself to
be eaten by the lion everyday. So every day it was the turn of one of the
animals and in the end came the rabbits' turn. The rabbits chose a old
rabbit among them. The rabbit was wise and old. It took its own sweet time
to go to the Lion. The Lion was getting impatient on not seeing any animal
come by and swore to kill all animals the next day.
The rabbit then strode along to the Lion by sunset. The
Lion was angry at him. But the wise rabbit was calm and slowly told the Lion
that it was not his fault. He told the Lion that a group of rabbits were
coming to him for the day when on the way, an angry Lion attacked them all
and ate all rabbits but himself. Somehow he escaped to reach safely, the
rabbit said. He said that the other Lion was challenging the supremacy of
his Lordship the Lion. The Lion was naturally very enraged and asked to be
taken to the location of the other Lion.
The wise rabbit agreed and led the Lion towards a deep
well filled with water. Then he showed the Lion his reflection in the water
of the well. The Lion was furious and started growling and naturally its
image in the water, the other Lion, was also equally angry. Then the Lion
jumped into the water at the other Lion to attack it, and so lost its life
in the well. Thus the wise rabbit saved the forest and its inhabitants from
the proud Lion.
Moral of
the Story :
Wit Is Superior To Brute Force |