The jealous donkey

The story is about the jealous donkey.  To know about the story and the moral of the story read the article briefly.  It gives you very good moral and you should not be jealous upon others.

Once upon a time there lived a farmer who owned two animals.  One was a dog which used to guard his house and his property, while the other was a donkey which carried loads of grain to the market.

The farmer was very fond of his dog and whenever he came home after a day’s work in the fields, the dog would run up to him and jump onto his lap.  The farmer would pet the dog and give him some tidbits to eat. 

The donkey became jealous and watched the dog’s antics with anger in his heart.  “What an easy life that dog leads”, he said to himself angrily.  “He never does a stroke of work, yet gets so much love and affection.  Whereas I carry heavy loads and all I get it is heard blows and leftovers.

Now the donkey too decided to behave like the dog.  So the next day when the farmer sat on his chair in the courtyard of his house, the donkey ran up to him braying loudly and then jumped on to the farmer’s lap.

The farmer became furious.  He threw off the donkey and picking up his stick rained blows on it till it fled braying with pain. 

The moral of the story is “No good can ever come out of jealousy.”