Two Fighting
Cats
One day two
cats found a
loaf of bread.
Both the cats
wanted the
bread so they
began fighting.
They clawed
at each other
and fought
for long.
Along came
a monkey.
“Why are
you
fighting?”
he asked.
The cats
snarled,
“We are
fighting
because we
both want
to eat the
bread.”
The monkey
asked,
“Why don’t you
share it?”
The cats said,
“We don’t want
the other
to get more,
so we cannot
share it.”
“All right,”
said the
monkey,
“I’ll help
you to cut
it in half.”
The
monkey
tore
the
loaf
into
two.
“One bit
looks bigger,
let me make
them the
same size,”
he said,
and ate a
little of one
of the
pieces of
bread.
Then the other piece looked
bigger, so he ate a little of it.
The cats
were so
busy fighting
each other,
they did not
see the
monkey eating
the bread.
In the
mean time,
the monkey
ate the whole
loaf.
The cats did
not get any
bread,
because they
were busy
fighting.
When the cats saw the monkey
running away, they knew that they
should have worked together and
shared.