The Dove And Ant | Slow and Steady Wins the Race | Too Much Greed Too, Much Sufferings | Completing Story Group-6

1. Read the beginning of the following story and complete it in your own way. Give a suitable title.

An ant lived on the bank of a river. The level of water in the river was increasing consequently. One day a wave stroke at the shore. At that moment the Ant was walking. It slipped into water...........

The Dove And Ant

An ant lived on the bank of a river. The level of water in the river was increasing consequently. One day a wave stroke at the shore. At that moment the Ant was walking. It slipped into the water and could not reach the shore. It dove observed the matter. He felt for the ant and became very sympathetic.

He took a leaf of a jackfruit tree and spread it down the water. The drowning and caught it. Both the leaf and the ant were floating. At last the and reached the shore. When he got back his life, he heard everything from the dove. He thanked the dove and soon they became a friend.

One day, while the dove was sitting beside the bank, a hunter target it, for hunting. At that moment, the grateful ant ht upon a plan suddenly to save the dove, the ant bit his foot. As a result, the hunter jumped up and missed his target. Hearing the sound, the bird flew away. Thus, the ant saved the life of his useful friend dove. 

2. Read the beginning of the following story and complete it in your own way. Give a suitable title.

A hare is a very speedy animal. It can run very fast. But a tortoise moves very slowly. Once upon a time a hare was very proud of his speed and cut a joke to a tortoise. Once the Tortoise challenged..........

Slow and Steady Wins the Race/A Race between the Hare And the Tortoise

A hare is a very speedy animal. It can run very fast. But a tortoise moves very slowly. Once upon a time a hare was very proud of his speed and cut a joke to a tortoise. Once the Tortoise challenged the hare and invited him to run a race with him. They both went to a fox and asked him to be the judge of their contest. The fox agreed and on an appointed day they met at cress road.

Finally, the race began. The hare from the beginning started running at top speed and soon left the tortoise far behind. Crossing almost half of the distance the hare looked back. There was no sign of the tortoise around.

The hare smiled and said to himself, "I am really a fool. Why should I run so fast in the hot sun with the slow, old tortoise? I will start again when the tortoise will catch up. Before that, I will have a rest," So he lay down to have a rest under a shady tree. But as he was a little tired, he soon fell asleep. The tortoise, on the other hand, wants along his slow but steady way. He never stopped nor looked back and at last passed proud hare and reached the finishing spot well ahead of the hare.

The hare knowing not when he fell asleep, awoke with a start and looking back found no sign of the tortoise. Still satisfied with himself he started running. But on reaching the finishing spot he saw the tortoise grossing with the fox, the judge of the race.

Then the tortoise said that you should know friend, "Slow and Steady Wins the Race".

3. Read the beginning of the following story and complete it in your own way. Give a suitable title.

Once a dog stole a place of meat from a butcher's shop. He ran away with it and at last went to a stream. There was a plank across the..........

Too Much Greed Too, Much Sufferings

Once a dog stole a place of meat from a butcher's shop. He ran away with it and at last went to a stream. There was a plank across the stream. The dog was running over the plank. He looked down into the stream at the time of running over the plank across the stream and saw clearly a dog's shadow in the water. The greedy dog thought that there was another dog carrying a piece of meat. So he quickly jumped into the river. There was no other dog. The one it had attacked was its own shadow. The greedy dog was soaking wet and with great difficulties reached the shore.

The greedy dog went home sluggishly. His stomach was getting even hungrier. The dog thought that too much greed had resulted in such misery.