A Foolish Rabbit
One summer afternoon, a Rabbit was resting
in the shade of a coconut tree.
He had eaten a rather large lunch of fresh carrots.
As he lay snoring in his sleep, the Rabbit had a strange dream.
He dreamt that the world was breaking into pieces.
Suddenly, there was a sharp sound
as a dry coconut from the tree, fell with a loud thud,
right next to where the Rabbit laid asleep dreaming.
The Rabbit got up with a startled yelp.
Thinking that the sound he heard
was really that was the world breaking up.
He hurried away.
Screaming at the top of his voice,
that the world had come to an end.
Soon, the others joined and there were many animals
all running blindly together.
Shouting with meaning his fear
that the world was coming to an end.
At last, the crowd of animals reached the middle of the forest,
where the King of the forest, the lion,
lived in his den.
The Lion had just had a good meal and was just dropping to sleep
When the noise of so many animals running,
and screaming at the top of their voices disturbed him.
He came out of his cave and roared mightily.
Why are you all shouting like this?
Have you all gone mad?
Your majesty, the world is coming to an end.
And that's the reason why all of us are running.
What nonsense.
Who told you?
The elephant pointed to the bear.
At last, the dear pointed to the little Rabbit
who stood there shivering in fear before the lion.
The lion asked a frightened Rabbit
So what made you think that the world was coming to an end?
Wh..While i was sleeping under the coconut tree,
I dreamt that the world was breaking up.
Then I woke up hearing a loud crashing sound.
The lion could now see things clearly .
He took all the animals to the spot where the Rabbit had slept.
This silly little animal
heard the noise of a falling coconut and panicked.
He started a rumor,
and you all believed him.
At least from now,
You should all decide never to believe in rumors.
All the animals were ashamed of themselves
and decided that from then on,
they would never believe anything blindly
So children, what happened in this case?
Everybody was so ashamed of themselves
They blindly believed in the rumor that was started by a small Rabbit
in his dreams.
So whats the moral of the story?
What you hear is not always the truth.
You'll have to enquire in detail, and learn what the truth is,
and then start believing it.