Talkative Turtle Story
There once upon a time, lived a turtle near a lake. He was friends with two cranes. The turtle had a bad habit. He was too talkative. He would talk too much. The cranes warned him not to talk too much and needlessly but he didn’t listen to them.
One summer, there began a drought in the country. Day by day, the level of water in the lake decreased. It was about to dry up. It was impossible for the turtle to survive there. The cranes told him about a lake in another forest. The turtle accepted to go there but it was too far to go. The cranes made a plan to carry him there. They told him to bite a stick and never open his mouth. The turtle did as they said. Then, each crane held one end of the stick and began to fly. While they were flying over a village, people saw them and began to discuss. The tortoise saw the commotion and wanted to know. He wanted to ask the cranes. Although the cranes warned him not to open his mouth, he tried to talk and opened his mouth. He suddenly fell on the trees.
Moral: We should not talk too much and needlessly.
I am also writing a story inspired by it. It goes like this-
The Talkative Turtle
There once lived a turtle named Kambugriva. He lived in a lake with two swans- Sankat and Vikat, who were his good friends. One day, some fishermen came near the lake. “Hey! Look at that turtle and two swans! We can capture them and make good money by selling them.” said one to the others. “Yes, and I think there are plenty of fishes in this lake for us to capture and make ourselves a fortune in the market.” said another to the others. When they went away for a while, an anxious Kambugriva said to the two swans- “Hey! Did you hear them? They are going to capture us! What do we do now?”. The two swans said in unison- “We don’t know! We’ll do what is right tomorrow.”. But Kambugriva strongly disagreed- “No! By tomorrow it might be too late! I have an idea! How about you two fly while I hang on a stick which you two will be holding and in this way, we shall go to some other lake?” The two swans approved, but on the condition that he will not utter a single word, or else he will fall to his death. He agreed to the condition. The preparations were made and early in the morning, they left. The villagers saw it and sprinted after it. One said- “If it falls, I’ll take the turtle home and I’ll season and fry the turtle if it falls and eat it!” and another said “If it falls, I’ll light up a fire, roast it and eat it on the spot!”. Enraged by hearing these things, the turtle opened his mouth and shouted at them- “You all eat dust!”, but what he did not realize was that as soon as he opened his mouth, he fell down and was eaten by the villagers.
Moral- We should be calm and patient, or else we might end up in trouble, just like the turtle Kambugriva, and also pay heed to our friends’ advises.