The Ant and the Dove
One hot day, an ant was seeking for some
water. After walking around for a moment, she came to a spring. To reach the
spring, she had to climb up a blade of grass. While making her way up, she
slipped and fell unintentionally into the water.
She could have sunk if a dove up a nearby
tree had not seen her. Seeing that the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly put
off a leaf from a tree and dropped it immediately into the water near the struggling
ant. Then the ant moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried
her safely to dry ground.
Not long after at that, there was a hunter
nearby who was throwing out his net towards the dove, hoping to trap it in this
way.
Guessing what he should do, the ant quickly
bit him on the heel. Feeling the pain, the hunter dropped his net and the dove
flew away quickly from this net.
The morality: One
good turn deserves another.