Dangerous Place

 Written by: Nasratullah Samim

Once a few canaries were living in a big jungle far from the village. A yellow canary was among them. One day, Yellow canary was sitting sadly on the branch of a tree. A parti-colored canary saw and asked about her sadness.

Yellow said that whenever she makes her nest, the wind ruins it and she added that last day she lost her two eggs in her nest too.

Parti-colored assured her that she would solve this problem and took her to a white canary’s nest. Yellow became astonished to see the White’s nice and warm nest. Yellow asked White who has made her nest. White replied that she had built herself and promised to build the same nest for Yellow too.

Meanwhile, a magpie came and said that some days later, the king of the canaries would come and if any canary builds a nice nest, he would appoint her as the minister of the canaries. Yellow decided to take the position. 

White asked Yellow to go with her to collect some sticks, grass, and leaves for making nest but Yellow denied and said that she could make a nest for herself.

Yellow went to the castle and said to the king that she could make the nicest nest. The king took the address and promised to come and visits her nest.

Yellow became happy and went to White’s nest and told her that the red canary’s chick is sick and wanted her to go for her visit. Yellow added she would inform other canaries too.

While White went to Red’s nest, the king arrived and Yellow showed White’s nest to him and said that she has built the nest. 

The king became happy and ordered other canaries to learn nest building from White. Other canaries brought her some materials to build another nest but Yellow was not able to build it and said that she would go and bring some sticks, grass, and leaves for building the nest. When she went down on the ground and was shivering from the fear of the king. Meanwhile, a cat attacked her and hurt her one wing and other canaries took her to the nest.

The king said that Yellow had told her lie and the nest did not belong to her. Parti-colored canary said that the nest belongs to White.

The king appointed White as the minister of the canaries. White regretted telling lie and due to her lie, a cat hurt her wing too.