A Greedy Dog
(Outstanding)
Once there lived a dog. He was very greedy. One
afternoon, the dog was terribly hungry. He decided to go look for something to
eat. Just outside his house, there was a bridge. He walked across the wooden
bridge and started sniffing around for food.
Suddenly, he spotted a bone lying in a distance. Without
wasting any time, the hungry dog picked up the bone and was just about to eat
it, when he thought,
“Somebody
might see here with this bone and then I will have to share it with them. So, I
had better go home and eat it.”
Holding the bone in his mouth, he ran towards his
house. While crossing the wooden bridge, the dog looked down into the river. There
he saw his own reflection. The foolish dog mistook it for another dog.
So, the greedy dog looked at his reflection and
growled. The reflection growled back, too. This made the dog angry. He looked
down at his reflection and barked, as he opened his mouth, the bone in his
mouth fell into the river.
It was only when the water splashed that the greedy
dog realized that what he had seen was nothing but his own reflections and not
another dog's. But it was too late. He had lost the piece of bone because of his
greed. Now he had to go hungry.
Moral:
- Greed is a curse.
- Something is better than nothing.
- All covet, all lose.
- Do not be greedy.