Retold from 'PANCHATANTRA'

Once, a lion in the jungle hunted down other animals in large numbers. Other animals were afraid and had to find a way to stop this killings.

The other animals thought of an idea. They met the lion and disclosed their idea. According to it, the lion would not kill them, instead the animals would send any one animal daily as food for him. The lion agreed to it.

Every day an animal would go the the lion as food.

The lion would rest at its den, and eat the animal which came. It went on like this for some time.

One day it was the turn of a clever rabbit to go as food for the lion. He thought of an idea to stop the killing.

The lion was very hungry and angry because the rabbit went to the lion very late and also for sending such a small animal as food. So the lion told that he would kill all the animals as punishment for this deed.

The rabbit told the lion that it was late because it met another lion on its way and it killed five other rabbits which were coming along with him to the den as food. The lion got angry and wanted to kill the other lion and asked the rabbit to show him.

The clever rabbit took him to a well and told that the other lion is hiding in the well. The lion looked into the well and found his own image reflected in the water and thought its image as another lion.

So he thought to kill the other lion and plunged into the well and died. The rabbit went back to the other animals and told what happened. All the animals lived happily there after.

Moral of this story:

BRAIN POWER IS MIGHTIER THAN MUSCLE POWER.