Hello, everyone.
The story that I am going to tell you today is a funny story. It’s about
a tailor and an elephant. The tailor wanted to know what would happen if he
pricked an elephant with a needle. Would the elephant feel pain?
Read on and find out.
The Tailor and the Elephant
Ramu was a tailor. He had a friend called Jaggu. Jaggu had an elephant
and he passed Ramu’s shop every morning when he took his elephant Kallu to
drink water from the river nearby. Ramu and Jaggu were
good friends so when Jaggu passed Ramu’s shop he was bound to stop and have a
chat with his friend.
Now Ramu had a problem. Every time that Kallu passed by his shop he
wondered what would happen if he pricked that elephant with a needle? He was
very curious to know. The elephant was such a huge animal and would it feel the
pain like anybody or not? He became so curious as the days went by that he
could not stop thinking about it. He could not even sleep at night. He tossed
and turned and kept thinking how he could find out. At last he could not bear
it anymore and decided he would prick Kallu with a needle the very next day and
see what would happen?
So
the next day Ramu waited at the door of his shop with a needle in his hand. He
hid his hand behind his back so that Jaggu would not see the needle. When Jaggu
came he went to greet his friend. They started chatting and as they talked Ramu
moved closer and closer to Kallu the elephant and when he was near enough he
pricked the elephant in the leg. Kallu just moved his leg and stood there. Then
the two friends said goodbye to each other and Ramu went into his shop and
Jaggu went on his way to the river. Jaggu had no idea what had happened. Here
Ramu was satisfied that the elephant had hardly felt the needle.
Now
here Kallu having pricked by a needle was furious. He was calm but he knew
exactly what to do. As you know elephants have very good memories. So when
Kallu reached the river with Jaggu he had his bath and then he put his trunk in
the water to drink. When he had drunk enough water he went to the side where
there was plenty of mud. He took up a lot mud in his trunk and waited for Jaggu
to lead him home. Soon Jaggu stood up from where he was sitting when he saw
that Kallu was ready to leave and led him towards home. Now when they reached
Ramu’s shop Kallu headed straight for it.
Ramu was
sitting at his sewing machine sewing away busily as Diwali was approaching and
he had a lot of clothes to sew. Suddenly he saw Kallu head straight for him. Jaggu
tried to stop him but it was in vain. Kallu squirted all the mud on Ramu and
backed away. Ramu got all drenched with mud. Not only that the expensive cloth
he was stitching also got drenched with mud!
Jaggu
was very much surprised at Kallu’s behaviour. Then the next day he got to know
from Ramu the whole story when Ramu told it to him shamefacedly.
Jaggu
laughed till his sides ached.
So
you see children never ever underestimate anybody’s pain. The tailor thought
the elephant would not feel any pain but he was so wrong. It is very cruel to
treat animals badly.
