The Greedy Monkey ep 3

A monkey lived on the branches of huge tree that stood in the middle of a forest. The monkey was very greedy. He always wanted more of everything and was never satisfied. The other monkey often cautioned him. Beware, friend!" they would say. "Greed is never good. It might get into trouble some day." But the greedy monkey would not reform his ways.

One day, a royal procession happened to pass through the forest. The king, followed by his guards, was on his way to some other kingdom. The sun was right overhead as the procession reached the middle of the forest. "We shall halt here for lunch," ordered the king. The guards brought their horses to a halt and camped around a tree. It was the greedy monkey's home tree. The king went inside a tent to take rest till the guards served lunch. One of the guards spread some gram on the ground to dry. The gram was to feed the horses.

All this while, the monkey had been watching from the top of the tree. "Ah! fresh gram!" thought monkey, his mouth watering. "But how do I get to eat it?. The others were busy doing some other work, and for a while a patch of grams was left unguarded.

"There is my chance!" thought the monkey and climbed down the tree swiftly. Then he pounced upon the patch of gram and grabbed a fistful, he picked some more in his other fist bas well. Not satisfied yet, the greedy monkey popped the grams in the mouth full and both fists clinched he began to climb back home.

Hardlyhad the monkey climbed up a few paces, a gram slipped off his fist and well on the ground. "Oh, I can't lose that!" thought the monkey and climbed down to pick up the gram with clenched fists. Still greed would not allow the monkey to let go of the gram!.

He once again tried to pick up the fallen gram with his hands already full. This time some more grams fell off his fists. "No....no! cried the monkey and he opened his mouth, some more gram fell from his mouth. He frantically jumped left and right to collect his fallen grams. In this confusion, his fists loosened and all the grams got scattered on the ground!.

'Oh, what a mess I've made," the monkey muttered. As he was trying to pick up all scattered grams, the kings guards came back. They saw the monkey stealing the grams meant for horses. "Ae.....ae catch him!'' they shout. Even before the monkey realized, he was caught by the guards. After giving him a sound thrashing, the guards chased the monkey away from there. The greedy monkey finally learnt his lesson the hard way.

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