At the end of that paddy field, below a big banyan
tree, between the holes of the roots stood a squirrel with a nut of its head
size in his hands.
He wants to break open the shell and eat the kernel
inside. His tiny hands were not enough to break the shell, so he threw it up
above so that it falls down and crack.
The nut flew in the air and gravity dropped it
down to earth. The nut rolled down into
a hole between the roots of the tree.
The squirrel was shocked and rushed behind the
nut into the hole before the tree could consume it. He could not see in the
dark, but he didn’t want to give up.
He followed the hole in the dark and reached the
end and found its nut. He dragged it out of the hole to the light. It might be not his nut, but he found one for
the day.
He looked up to the tree and found a bird with
big beak and a big claw. He climbed the tree and, on the way, to middle of the
tree he stopped.
“If I asked help to that big-beak, he could
break open the nut and eat the kernel and throw me down the tree or throw the
nut down and can eat me.” he thought
He looked around and found a leaping tongue
with vine body. It was slithering across the branches of the trees. “This slathering beast looks helpful, should I
ask him to help me?”
“The idea sounds great but what if he a carnivorous
of an omnivorous that either eats both me and the nut or only me.” the thought terrified the squirrel.
He moved away from the slithering beast and
found a monkey sitting at end of a branch.
The monkey was searching something in the head of another monkey.
“I know this guy, he and his whole family were crazy,
but he should help me as I am tiny comparing to him” he thought. “Oh! Wait.
He is crazy. He might throw me
down just for fun”
The squirrel moved up the tree further and
dropped the nut from his hands. The nut
fell down before a tusker walking by the tree.
The squirrel jumped from branch to branch and ran
down the trunk and stood before the elephant to stop the tusker to smash the
nut under its big foot.
The tusker stopped and saw the squirrel
shouting to stop pointing at the tiny nut the fell before its foot. “Please
stop or you are going to smash it and make it useless” squirrel shouted.
The tusker scooped the squirrel with its trunk. The squirrel was terrified that tusker is going
to threw him in the air and before he hit the ground his soul would have
reached God.
No. The tusker
lifted him gently with its trunk and placed it above its head. Squirrel heard the shell breaking under the
tusker’s feet. “Oh no, it is gone forever”
he thought
The tusker scoped something from the ground just
like it scoped the squirrel. It was the
broken nut. The trunk slowly reached the
squirrel that is over its head.
The trunk delivered the squirrel a full nut instead
of the smashed one. When the squirrel
took it in his hand the nut opened exactly into two halves.
“How could such a giant break the nut with such
tenderness!!!” wondered the squirrel. “Thank you, sir,” said the squirrel to the giant.
The tusker lifted its trunk and triumphed.
- SK
