Do you remember an anecdote or a story about a greedy or jealous person and the unhappy result of his/her action? Narrate the story to others in your class. Here is one for you to read.
Seeing an old man planting a fig tree, the king asked why he was doing this. The man replied that he might live to eat the fruit, and, even if he did not, his son would enjoy the figs. “Well,” said the king, “if you do live to eat the fruit of this tree, please let me know.” The man promised to do so, and sure enough, before too long, the tree grew and bore fruit. Packing some fine figs in a basket, the old man set out for the palace to meet the king. The king accepted the gift and gave orders that the old man’s basket be filled with gold. Now, next door to the old man, there lived a greedy old man jealous of his neighbour’s good fortune. He also packed some figs in a basket and took them to the palace in the hope of getting gold. The king, on learning the man’s motive, ordered him to stand in the compound and had him pelted with figs. The old man returned home and told his wife the sad story. She consoled him by saying, “You should be thankful that our neighbour did not grow coconuts.”
Once upon a time, there was an old maid who lived on a farm alone. She had a hen which gave a dozen eggs every day. The old maid sold the eggs in the village to buy bread and butter. One day the hen did not give any eggs. The old maid ate the left over bread and better from the previous night and managed to scrape through the day. On the second day, the hen still did on give any eggs. The old maid bought some milk from her neighbours and went to bed still hungry. On the third day when the hen still had not given any eggs, the old maid started crying. She was hungry and had no food or money left. A magician was passing by her farm and moved by her bitter cries stopped to ask why she was crying. On learning about the hen, the magician gave her some magic beans to feed the hen. The next day, the hen gave a golden egg. The old maid was overjoyed and sold the golden egg for a fortune. The next morning, the hen gave another golden egg which the old maid again sold for a large sum of money. It went on for a week and the village was talking about the good fortune of the old maid. Some people said the hen had stored a hundred golden eggs in her stomach. Scared that somebody might steal her hen, the old maid killed the hen to take out the hundred golden eggs in one go for herself. On tearing open it’s stomach, the old maid found no golden eggs in the hen and cried tears of sorrow.