Owlet

Written by: Nasratullah Samim

Once upon a time, a few canaries were living in a green garden with other birds.

One day a yellow canary was singing on the branch of an apple tree and she was praising her beauty. A white canary also came and started playing with the yellow canary. Meanwhile, an owlet came and wanted them to play with him.

The yellow canary started laughing and pointed toward the owlet and said to the white to see the owlet. When the white canary saw the owlet, he started laughing at him too.

The owlet asked that what is wrong that they are laughing at him. Yellow canary wanted him to look to his big head. White canary called him ugly bird that has big claws and they continued their laughing. The owlet wanted them to stop mocking him and play with him but the canaries wanted him to find some ugly birds to play with him.

The owlet cried and left the place. This manner repeated many times with the owlet.

One night when the white and yellow canaries were in their nests, the white canary said to the yellow canary that he annoyed the owlet today too. She added that she was sitting with some other canaries on the tree that the owlet came and wanted other canaries to let him play with them but when the owlet saw him, he escaped.

The yellow canary heard the sound of the creeping of a snake coming toward their nest and he told the white that he is afraid of the snake. The white canary checked out of the nest and said to the yellow that the sound of snake creeping is far from their nest.

White and yellow canary continued their talking about owlet. the white said that he hates the crooked beak of the owlet and they laughed again. Meanwhile, they heard the sound of the snake creeping near their nest. White canary cried and wanted the yellow to escape from the nest but yellow said that if they escape, the weather is too dark and they cannot see anything and snake might hunt them.

White and yellow canaries were crying and wanted help but there was no one to help them. The owlet heard their crying and flew toward their nest and attacked the snake. The snake fell to the ground. When the canaries saw that the owlet rescued them from the snake, they thanked him and asked him how he could saw the snake in the darkness.

The owlet replied that owls can see everything in the darkness.

The canary said that now they learned that every creature has a special skill that another creature might not have it and they promised that they would never mock anyone afterward.