Hello, everyone.
The story that I am going to tell you today is of a traveler in olden
times when people travelled by foot mostly.
Read on and find out what happens when this traveler is hungry and
thirsty and there is no food or water anywhere around.
The Clever Traveler
Once there was a traveler. As you know in olden times people travelled
by foot mostly because there were no cars then and travelling by an oxcart
would be expensive. So if they wanted to travel from one village to another
village nearby they would travel by foot.
Now let us get back to our traveler. He decided to travel to a nearby
village by foot. As it was not that far he knew he would reach there by that
evening. He took with him some water and some food. He was a poor man so he had
taken just a little food and it was very hot. By the time noon time came he had
finished his water and his food. He was feeling very hungry and thirsty now. When
he looked around there was no river or a spring of water and there were no
fruit trees either. Although there were some coconut trees and they were very
tall. He couldn’t possibly climb one of those. He became desperate. He did not know
what to do. Then he suddenly heard some chattering sounds coming from above. When
he looked up he saw some monkeys in those trees. He looked and started
wondering how to get those coconuts and as he was doing that he was scratching
his head. As soon as the monkeys saw him do that they started scratching their
heads. When he put his hands down they did that too. When he saw that he had an
idea.
He
took up a stone and threw it at the monkeys. One of the monkeys at once plucked
a coconut out of the tree and threw it at the traveler. Encouraged by that the
traveler threw some more stones and the monkeys threw some more coconuts. The traveler
was delighted. He opened the coconuts one after the other. He drank as much
water as he could and ate the flesh to his heart’s content and went on his way.
His hunger and his thirst both satisfied.
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