Shalmo and Sisley

 Written by: Nasratullah Samim

Shalmo and Sisley were two monkeys living together in a green jungle.

One day, Sisley was crying and asking for help. Another monkey heard her crying and went near and asked about her trouble. Sisley said that her one leg is injured and she could not walk and her infants are very hungry at home. The monkey said that she is the physician of the jungle and she would cure her leg and would help her infants too. Then the monkey put some herb on Sisley’s leg and Sisley got better.

The physician monkey asked how she hurt her leg. Sisley said the whole story as follows: “Today early in the morning when a heavy windstorm was blowing, my friend, Shalmo came to my house and asked me to go with her for finding some food.

When we reached to the middle of the jungle, I saw three bananas under a tree. I wanted to take them to my infants but Sisley grabbed them from my hand and ran away. I asked her to give them to me but she climbed to a pine tree and I chased her. A quarrel took place between us. The bananas and we two dropped down on the ground.  Another monkey grabbed the bananas and she escaped. Sisley hurt his ear and hurt my leg and I accepted that it was my fault to fight with Sisley for a small issue.”