4. THE BOYS AND THE FROGS
#Inspirational Moral Stories
A number of boys
used to play cricket near a pond. Once, one of the boys hit
the ball so hard
that it went inside the pond. When a boy went to pick up the
ball, he saw some
frogs and told his friends: ‘Let’s play with the frogs today.’
His friends agreed.
They rushed after the frogs, which felt scared and jumped
into the water. One
boy threw a big stone at a frog. It died. The other boys
cheered loudly. They
also aimed stones at the frogs. Some frogs got injured;
some were killed.
Suddenly, they heard a hoarse voice. It was so strange that
they stopped to look
around. An old frog spoke to them in a human voice:
‘Why are you
throwing stones at us, dear boys? Does the life of another
creature have no
value for you? What is a game for you, is death for us.’ The
boys felt ashamed.
Putting their stones down, they went away.
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