12. THE THREE WISHES #Inspirational Moral
Stories
A poor woodcutter
earned just enough money for two square meals for his
wife and himself.
One day, he was about to cut down a peepal tree, when a
woman’s voice called
out to him. He spun around, but saw nobody! She
spoke again, saying
that she was a fairy. She beseeched him to spare the
peepal tree as she
lived in it, and instead promised him three wishes. Feeling
sorry for her, the
woodcutter cut another tree. When he returned, he told his
wife about the fairy
and the three wishes. As she set out a dish of porridge for
him, the
disappointed farmer said: ‘I wish fresh hot loaves of bread would
pour down from the
chimney.’ Immediately, fresh hot loaves floated out of
the chimney! His
wife was angry to see that one wish had been wasted and
said: ‘I wish these
would hang from the tip of your nose.’ And that’s exactly
what happened! The
woodcutter cursed his wife. She said they still had one
wish left and could
ask for all the world’s riches. In pain, the farmer cried
out: ‘I wish these
bread loaves would leave my nose and go where they came
from.’ At that, the
loaves floated up out of the chimney!
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