The Greedy Lion – A Moral Story for Children by Ridima Sethi

Once upon a time, in a dense forest there lived many animals. Forest was the home to so many animals like - elephants, lions, hippo, and others. 

Forest was ruled by a cunning, sharp, and clever lion. He would lord over all animals of the forest. All animals in the forest are terrified of him.

One day, lion called all the animals of forest for a meeting. Everyone were very scared and anxious to know what lion would say in the meeting.

All the animals gathered together. The lion soon arrived.

He looked at everyone and said, "From tomorrow, I want you all to follow a rule that I give you."

There was a big pause.

Unable to control his curiosity, gorilla hesitatingly asked, "Sir, If I may ask, could you please tell us the rule that we need to follow".

The lion replied, "Wait, You foolish animal! I will tell you, I am mulling over it."

All the animales were ever more scared and waited quitely.

Finally, the lion said, "From now on, every day, you all have to send me an animal for my dinner. If you all don't follow this rule, you all will be in a lot of trouble".

All the animals were shocked to hear the rule! but they had no choice. They had to accept the lion's rule.

The lion continued, "I am now appointing an assistent who will bring the animals everyday to my house. The assistent will be the deer".

The deer was surprised and shocked. How was he supposed to react to this decision? But he was too scared to voice his thoughts. So he said, "Ok Sir! I will do as you say. I will be there at your service with an animal every morning".

The lion left the meeting and went back to his den.

From that day, every morning, the deer would take an animal along with him to the lion's den. All the animals were very disturbed because of this rule. They knew that soon one day, it would be their turn to be the lion's feast.

One night suddenly there was loud thunder. Soon, it started raining heavily. All the animals ran into their house. But the lion wanted to enjoy in the rain.

Lion ran through the forest and sat in the rain. He enjoyed and had so much fun in the rain.

As the rain stopped, he returned back to his house and went to sleep as he was very tired.

Next morning when the lion got up, the deer was there at his service. Deer asked the lion, "Sir! whom should I get for your feast today".

As the lion opened his mouth to speak, a loud sneeze escaped - 'Aaaachhoooo!'.