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CRAZY CUCKOO |
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A short Story for 4 to 7 Years |
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Why does the
cuckoo bird tweet sadly, “cuckoo cuckoo”?
A short story about a cuckoo bird who lost it
and a mother crow who never gave up and won!
Oh Yes! It’s not your skin but your skill which
counts in the end.
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EXCERPT
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When mother
crow and her team reached town they were weak
with hunger and very thirsty. Mother crow could
not bear to see her children in this state. And
Mr. Tar-tar who was as round as a balloon was
now as thin as a needle. Now Mother crow did not
wait even for a second, and with her beak killed
three-four rats, made them into patties and fed
them to her children and Mr. Tar-Tar. After this
there was no problem for Mother Crow and her
team and they began to live happily in town.
Everyday they would kill a few rats and eat them
up. After sometime Do-Ray, Me-Fa, So-La and
Ti-Do also became expert in killing rats and the
rats were running here and there in fear for
their lives. They were in a real state and
started talking about leaving town.
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The people
of the town were very happy. They did not want
Mother Crow and her team to
leave town
ever so they began to give them many gifts.
Mother crow told them, “ I don’t want anything
but I want my children’s music to be remembered
forever and forever. So, can you make a tape of
my children’s music so that I can play it for
the animals of the jungle who had thrown us out
of the jungle because of our singing.”
The people
of the town were only too happy to do as Mother
Crow wanted and made a tape of the four crows
song. The name of the tape was “The Caw-Caw
Crows.”
When the tapes came to the shops the people of
the town were very happy. When they played the
tapes at home, not only the rats but all the
pests ran away frightened. Some farmers even
started playing them in their fields so that the
birds which eat their seeds flew away in fright.
The town people were so happy with the services
of the crows
that they took away the golden cagefrom the
cuckoo and gave it to the crows. But Mother Crow
refused to live in a golden cage. She knew that
a cage, whether it is made of gold or iron is
still a cage and it would not allow her to
fly like a free bird and she did not want that.
She returned the cage to the cuckoo bird.
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When the
cuckoo bird saw Mother Crow’s behavior she was
very ashamed of herself. She thought to herself
this crow has worked so hard and see where she
has reached and I am where I was. Mother Crow
did not have beauty nor did she have any
great talent. And yet her quality was useful to
so many people. And that is why no one cares
whether she is beautiful or not, they only
praise her work. They were tears in Cuckoo’s
eyes and she ran to Mother Crow’s nest.
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