Story

The Crooked Tree

Author - Dilkesh Madhukar

Once there was a tree whose branches where crooked. It lived in a dense forest where all trees were straight and tall. Their trunks were broad and in good shape.

The crooked tree was sad. He thought 'How ugly I am! All the others are straight and have nice shape. I alone have a crooked trunk.' One day a woodcutter came there. He looked around and said 'I will cut all trees here except that crooked here. The crooked three is of no use to me. The woodcutter cut away all other trees. Now the crooked tree was happy and thankful to the Lord for creating it with crooked branch.

Moral - 'We should be happy with whatever we have.'

Difficult words with meaning

crooked - टेढ़ा मेढ़ा, branches - शाखाएं, dense – घना, forest – जंगल, straight- सीधा, broad- चौड़ा, trunk- तना, shape- आकार, Ugly- कुरूप, alone – अकेला, woodcutter- लकड़हारा, around - चारों ओर, except – अलावा, Lord- भगवान, create- बनाना