The Might Of The Little People
High up in the crotch of a tree a mother bird sat on the eggs in her nest. Then she suddenly noticed a python slowly silently slithering towards her. The poor bird, what could she do to protect her eggs from the menacing snake? A monkey came by, saw the situation and told the mother bird, ” Don’t be afraid. I’ll get rid of that python; I’ll throw stones at him.’ ” But then you’ll break my eggs,’ the mother bird said. Along rumbled a big elephant. He too, saw the dangerous situation and assured the mother bird, “Relax and stop crying. I’ll get rid of that python; I’ll pull that tree right out of the ground.”
“Wait a minute,”said the mother bird. “Then you’ll break all my eggs.’ With that the mother bird came to the conclusion that the giants of the forest were not able to drive away the python without breaking her eggs. Suddenly thousands of them came running right up the tree trunk, covered the python completely from nose to tail tip, and left nothing of him except his skin and skeleton.
“Bravo!” said the mother bird to her heroes. ” Now my young ones are safe and I can get back to work.”