#TSL Pandorathon May 14 When a kitten and a baby elephant became great friends
A fable
The village kids had thrown the bag in the river. By pure luck the kitten managed to get free but the current was too strong. It was buffeting the kitten all the way, in a bend of the river the kitten got carried near the bank but it being very steep and the kitten exhausted, it became quickly a no win situation. The bend in the river was used by the elephants as a water hole, they drank and bathed and love to play there. That afternoon’s being too hot to work the parade was there, and a small elephant was the first to spot the drowning kitten, never having seen one before it put its trunk around the kitten’s body and lifted it to have a better look at it. It was a miserable sight as you can imagine. The elephant youngster asked “ what kind of animal are you?” The kitten just answered by a piteously”miaow “, the mother of the elephant keeping an eye on her offspring told him ,” as it is alive take it to the bank”, which the obedient juvenile did, he deposited the drenched kitten on the verge of the bank.
“ I’ m so cold” came a wailing from the kitten, in truth it was trembling and shivering despite the heat of the day. The elephant youth not really knowing how it could help this unfortunate creature, blew on it through its trunk. And after a while a soft purring came from the not so longer wet body, it was turning to a puffy ball . “ thank you” said the kitten between two purrs, you saved my life today, I owe it to you, I shall pay you back i swear .”“Don’t be so silly” replied the young elephant amazed by the transformation which had taken form in front of him, I just blew on you”. From that day the kitten came back everyday to see the juvenile elephant, they became friends .
A few months passed, when one day, the kitten could hear violent trumpeting coming from the river bend. He was surprised by all the noise, but when he saw the cause of that ruckus, he felt like laughing,
All the great elephants were barracking around the youngsters, to protect them from a mice attack. It all like a river made of the smallest furry rodents. While the elephants could crush them under their feet , the mice were running between their legs to get to the juveniles. The kitten took its legs to its head and galloped away, the mother elephant “ Bar-umping,” here’s your friend , first spot of trouble and he disappears “, she had barely spoken , when who would be leading a pack of the most dangerous Tom cats living in the village but our little kitten, “ make haste, make haste” he was rushing his feral elders. It was all over in a few moments. The youngsters were saved, the kitten was deemed to be a hero in the parade’s memory, and never, ever did the elephant mum reproached the friendship between the kitten and her cub.
The morale as this fable demonstrated is size does not matter when one is true to one’s word.
The end
Lucette C. Bailliet
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