Once upon a time there lived a camel and a jackal together in a forest. There was a river nearby the forest. On the other side of the river there were sugarcane fields. One day morning the jackal came to the camel and asked to cross the river and enjoy the sugarcane. The camel agree with the jackal. But the jackal did not know how to swim, so he requested the camel to carry him on his back.

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A Farmer walked through his field one cold winter morning. On the ground lay a Snake, stiff and frozen with the cold. The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it up and put it in his bosom to warm it back to life.

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Once two friends were walking through the forest. They knew that anything dangerous can happen to them at any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would remain united in any case of danger.

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Once, in a dense jungle, a mighty lion ruled like a king. He was very strong and had a thick, beautiful mane. One day when the lion was sleeping, a mouse got into his mane and played with the thick hair. The lion was disturbed. He caught the mouse with one of his paws, and pinned him to the ground. “You, little mouse, how dare you play with me?”, said the lion with burning eyes.

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A poor woodcutter accidentally dropped his axe into the river. He was very upset, as he had no money to buy another axe. Just then a fairy appeared in the river holding out a golden axe to him. "I found this axe in the river. Is this yours?"

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A father had a family of sons who were always quarreling among themselves. When he failed to solve their fights with his advice, he decided to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks.

When they had done so, he placed the bundle into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all their strength, but were not able to do it.

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It was the aftermath of a big festival. Two cats were prowling together. One of the cats saw a big cake and missed. The other jumped up and picked it.

The first cat said, “Give me the cake. It is I who saw it first.”

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A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walk timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office.

The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn’t even deserve to be in Cambridge.

“We want to see the president,” the man said softly.

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Once upon a time there was a Grasshopper was hopping, chirping and singing to its heart's content in a field in hot summer's day. There was an ant staying nearby the grasshopper’s nest. They were good friends. It was springtime and the grasshopper was having a lot of fun playing, singing, and dancing in the sun. But the ant was hard working. It was collecting food grains and storing them in its house for the winter.

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Once upon a time, there lived a generous and kind-hearted king. But the people weren’t happy with their king because the king was very lazy and would not do anything other than eating and sleeping.

He spent days and weeks and months in his bed either eating something or sleeping. The king became a potato couch and the people started to worry about the king.

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Once upon a time, there lived a very cunning and mischievous fox. He used to speak to other animals sweetly and gain their trust, before playing tricks on them.

One day the fox met a stork. He befriended the stork and acted like a very good friend. Soon, he invited the stork to have a feast with him. The stork happily accepted the invitation.

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An old man of fortune wanted to test the commonsense of his three sons who were living apart. He gave each of them an equal sum of money. He told them that they were free to buy anything they desired. But there was one condition. The articles which they bought should fill their houses. The old man further said that he would visit them on a particular day to see how they fared.

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Long time ago there lived a cruel lion in the deep forest. It was a greedy lion and started killing all the animals in the forest. Seeing this, the animals gathered and decided to approach the lion with the offer of one animal of each species volunteering itself to be eaten by the lion every day. So every day it was the turn of one of the animals and in the end came the rabbits' turn. The rabbits chose an old rabbit among them. The rabbit old was wise. It decided to take its own sweet time to go to the Lion. The Lion was getting impatient on not seeing any animal come by and swore to kill all animals the next day.

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Once upon a time there was a big forest near a river. A fox was leaving there with his neighbor. One day, the fox saw a crow with a piece of cheese in his beak. The fox was very hun­gry and thought, “How can I get the piece of cheese?”

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Long long ago in the hot summer day there was a fox was walking nearby the well. Somehow by accident he slipped in that well. It was not a very deep well. He tried his best to get out but it was in vain.

At that time a thirsty goat passed by the well and saw the fox was there in the well. She asked the fox what he was doing there.

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