Look Before You Leap

Once upon a time, two water frog friends named Tom and Joe were traveling through a village road in search of water during a hot summer day. They saw a well beside the road and Tom leaped up to the brink of the well to mark whether there is water. Then Tom leaped back to Joe and told, "Dear friend! Let us jump into and stay inside this well." But Joe was prudent and leaped up to the brink to verify and knew that the water inside was very little. "

Then Joe came back and advised Tom, " Dear Pal! We should never leap into the well now. Because there is little water which must be dried up within a few days. So we can never survive. Let us go on searching for another water source ahead. " But Tom reacted, " No I cannot wait and now I will leap into the well. I can no more tolerate the hot sun." Then Joe advised Tom, " Dear friend you have no foresight at all. If we do the same now we will die after some days. Please try to understand me. "

But Tom was obstinate and did not care about the advice of Joe. Now Joe was helpless. Again he tried to convince his friend but failed. Immediately Tom leaped into the well and began to swim happily with croaking songs. Being hopeless Joe went on and on. He got a pond filled with cold water and remember Tom his bosom friend. In this way, a few months passed away. One day Joe wanted to see his friend's condition and reached at that well. While Joe looked into it, he began to cry, and dropped of tears rolled down on his cheek. Because his friend Tom was no more. The whole of the water was dried off and Tom's dead body had become stiff as if a dried fish.

Then Joe came back home and narrated his friend's socking story before his wife and son. Their wife and his only son wept for a while with the deepest condolence for the departed soul. At bedtime, Joe advised his son, " Look before you leap, otherwise you may suffer as your uncle Tom.