Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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[ Crossposted from Tell A Short Story ]
Hanna and Panna were two cows, who stayed in the neighborhood. Panna was shiny white skinned whereas Hanna had a patchy rough brown skin. A beautiful skin made Panna very proud of its looks and he looked-down other animals. They used to roam and  graze together but could never become good frineds because of Hanna's haughtiness.

Spring was in and it was beautiful all around. Trees were laden with shiny leaves and pastures were filled with lush green grass.  Hanna and Panna were grazing in a field and enjoying the sunshine. Just then Hanna said to Panna "Look Panna, what beautiful tomatoes in that field ! Must be very tasty. Should we go and taste some."  Panna looked at them and those tomatoes looked really yummy. Then he thought for a while and said "True Hanna, tomatoes look really tasty, but we can not go to that field, it is a guarded field and if somebody sees us, we can be in trouble."  Hearing this Hanna became very angry and said " You stupid fellow, you are always scared of the things. I should not have asked you at all. I will go alone and eat those tasty tomatoes."  Panna felt little sad but then he joined him.

They entered the farm and started eating tomatoes which were really delicious.Only a few minutes were gone, Panna heard someone's foot steps and he said to Hanna "I hear somebody coming , now we should run away."  But Hanna did not pay any heed to him and carried on eating . Panna quickly hid himself in the bushes. When the person came closer, Hanna could hear the footsteps and thought Panna was surely right. And he started to look for thick bush to hide himself.  He could not hide himself properly in hurry.

When people came near the bushes, they noticed some thing white colored in the bushes. One of them hit hard in the bushes with a think stick. It came very hard on Hanna, and it came out if bushes grieving in pain. The moment he came out of bushes all the men started beating him with a sticks. I ran as fast as he could. They chased him till the end of the farm. While men were busy chasing Hanna, Panna took the opportunity and quietly ran from the farm in other direction.

Today Hanna had paid hard for his haughtiness, he said Panna to forgive him and promised never to behave badly with anyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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