A Squirrel Story

 

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.

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