142.
Hard Labour
Two very fast
friends Som and Nero lived in a village. They both were farmers but one year a
severe drought occurred in their part of the country. The rain had failed and
only one way to irrigate their field was to join a stream through a canal by
digging ground. Som, a very valiant person, determined to dug the ground till
it was connected to the stream. Both friends Som and Nero started but Nero,
being so capricious, went home when he was called for lunch. But when Som's
wife came to call him for lunch, by rebuking he said, “I work the whole day so
that you may be fed the whole year.” And he kept his hard labour up for three
days. When the work was done of joining the canal through the stream he
returned home and had dinner. His lifeless grains were again dancing with joy.
Meanwhile, Nero's idleness drew him again to the field where all his crops were
already dead.
Moral:
Hard labour is always fruitful.
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