Greed Brings in Disaster

Once upon a time, there was a greedy dog. He lived in an abandoned house. One afternoon, the dog was terribly hungry. So he decided to go to look for something to eat.

Just outside the house, there was a bridge. "“I will go and look for food on the other side of the bridge. The food there is definitely better,” the dog thought to himself. He walked across the wooden bridge and started sniffing around for food.

Suddenly, he spotted a bone lying at a distance. “Ah, I am lucky today. This looks very delicious one,” he said. Without wasting any time, the hungry dog picked up the bone and was just about to eat it, when he thought, “Somebody might see here with this bone and then I will have to share it with them. So, I had better go home and eat it.” Holding the bone in his mouth, he ran towards his house.

While crossing the wooden bridge, the dog looked down into the river. There he saw his own reflection. The foolish dog mistook it for another dog. “There is another dog in the water with bone in its mouth,” he thought. His greedy mind thought, “How nice it would be to snatch that piece of bone as well. Then, I will have two bones.”

So, the greedy dog looked at his reflection and growled. The reflection growled back, too. This made the dog angry. He looked down at his reflection and barked, “Woof! Woof!” As he opened his mouth, the bone in his mouth fell into the river. The water splashed and the greedy dog realized that what he had seen was nothing but his own reflections. But it was too late.

The dog had lost the piece of bone because of his uncontrolled greed. Now he had to go hungry.