THE MONKEY AND THE PEAS.
The King of Benares, who was already very powerful, resolved to m.ue tvar on a barren country in which only a few poo r people dwelt. But on the ■way he saw ain amusing sight. Some horsemen had boiled peas for their horses, and a monkey jumped down from a tree, seized a handful of peas, climbed up again, and began to eat. One pea, however, rolled out of his hand and tumbled to the ground. The sally monkey looked at it g”eeddy, and then, leting all the other peas tall he climbed down the tree and hunted for the ope. that. had first dropped. But a man ran after him, and he had to leave all the peas; and he climbed up the tree again, looking as glum, as a mail who had lost a .-ci ngdom. “There you see,’’ said the king’s, minister, “what comes of losing much to gain little.’’ The king thereupon discharged his army and returned to Benares. Take eare that in your anxiety to grasp more you do not lose what you already have.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 18
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185THE MONKEY AND THE PEAS. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 18
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