The Sparrow and the elephant

   

The Sparrow and the elephant

Long time ago 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 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 sorrow.

Seeing her sorrow, 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 black fly, who

in turn went to the counselor frog for advice.

The frog then devised a scheme for killing the

elephant.

He asked the black fly to buzz in the

ears of the elephant, so that the elephant

would be thrilled to listen to the music of the

black fly 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 black fly.

So the revenge was

taken with collective wit of all three animals.

Story moral: Intelligence wins over might.