The irritating sparrow

In a certain town, there was a king.   One day as he was taking a stroll in his garden a sparrow from a tree hummed, “The king doesn’t have any money, only I have money”.  

The king got extremely angry with the bird that he screamed at one of his soldiers to snatch the money from the bird.  The soldier climbed up the tree and snatched the money from the bird and came down.  

The bird groaned, “The king is a really bad person; he grabbed my money!”. 

The king’s anger towards the bird knew no bounds.  “Now, throw that money back to the bird”, the king shouted at the soldier.  

The bird said, “The king got scared of me, which is why he returned my money”. 

The king felt like his head was about to burst.  The king squeaked, “Soldier! chase the bird”. 

The bird bellowed, “Oh no!  The king wants me to leave this place.” and flew away from that place.

The king felt really angry with himself after this incident.  He thought, “I should have ignored the bird instead of wasting my time doing these things”.

Moral: Choose the battles you fight

This is actually a Tamil story.  I have translated it to English.   All thanks to my dad.  He was the one who made me read Tamil story books and asked me to translate one of the stories to English.  Thanks dad! 😊.

Here’s the image of the story I have translated