The Sparrow and the Elephant
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Once upon a time there lived a sparrow with her husband on a tree.
She had built a nice nest and laid her eggs in the nest. One morning, a wild
elephant with spring fever feeling restive came to the tree in search of shade
and in a rage broke the branch of the tree on which the nest was residing.
Unluckily all the sparrow eggs were lost though both parents were saved. The
she-sparrow was deep in lament.
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Seeing her lament, the woodpecker bird, a friend of hers offered her
consolation that she would think of a way of killing the elephant. Then she went
to her friend the gnat, who in turn went to the counselor frog for advice. The
frog then devised a scheme for killing the elephant. He asked the gnat to buzz
in the ears of the elephant, so that the elephant would be thrilled to listen to
the music of the gnat and close its eyes. Then she asked the woodpecker to pluck
his eyes. She herself would be on the edge of a pit and would croak misleading
the elephant to think that it is a pond.
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The next day at noon the three carried out the plan and the elephant
was killed when he fell flat into a pit after being blinded by the woodpecker
when he closed his eyes in response to the gnat. So the revenge was taken with
collective wit of all three animals.
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MORAL: Wit is superior to brute force.
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