The Gold giving Serpent
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Once upon a time there lived a poor brahman. He used to work hard on
the fields but all his efforts did not bear fruit. He one day found an anthill
on his field and found a serpent there. Thinking that he had not paid respect to
the gauridan diety of his field, he procured milk and started feeding the
anthill with milk from that day. One day he found a gold coin in the plate. So
he used to get a gold coin everyday he fed the serpent with milk.
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Then one day he had to go to the town and asked his son to look after
the seprentby feeding him the milk. The son was greedy and he thought,"This
anthill must be full of gold coins". And he stuck the serpent. Unluckily the
serpent did not die and it attacked the boy and he died.
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MORAL: Excess of greed is harmful.
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