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(Reading for Pleasure)

The Greedy Bird

Long ago, a flock of birds stayed on the trees near a lake. The flock was ruled
by an old queen bird. Every morning, she would divide the birds in groups and

send them in different direc ons in search of food. All the birds worked equally

hard all day long.

Whenever, a bird found food anywhere, she would promptly bring the food

back to the nest where the queen bird lived. If the food was too much for a bird

to carry alone, she would inform the whole group. The birds in the group would
then carry it back to the nest.

Every evening, the queen bird would divide the food equally among all the

birds as they had all worked equally hard to search the food. This made sure that
no bird would go hungry.

One day, while searching for food, a young bird came

to village. She saw many bullock carts carrying sacks
of food grains from the fields to the nearby

market. She no ced that a lot of grains were

falling on the road as the carts moved.

She was delighted to see this.

She became greedy and thought

to herself. “Every day I fly and
work hard to search the food.

May be God has rewarded me

with such abundant supply of
food. These grains belong to

me and I should not share this

food with anyone else.”

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