Long-tailed Crow

Written by: Abdullah Fazli

A piebald magpie was living beside Long-Tailed and White-beak crow and some other birds and animals in a big jungle.

One winter’s cold day, the magpie was very hungry and nothing was found for eating in the jungle. She went to Long-tailed and White-beak’s house and wanted to help her some feeds.

Long-Tailed crow angrily evicted the magpie from his house but White-beak wanted to give her some feeds.

Long-tailed prevented White-beak and warned him that he could not give anything from the shared feed to the magpie otherwise he would expel him from the house too.

White-beak called Long-tailed a stingy bird and flew with the magpie to find her some feed.

White-beak took the magpie to the corner of the jungle where a lion had hunted an animal. White-beak said to the magpie that magpie could eat the remaining meat of the animal.

Meanwhile, Long-tailed flew behind them and warned that he would not let White-beak to offer food for the magpie.

When White-beak and magpie reached to the appointed place, they saw that a fox was eating the remaining of the animal’s flash. When the fox saw White-beak and the magpie, he

attacked them but magpie and White-beat flew and sat on a branch of a tree.

Meanwhile, they saw that Long-tailed was chasing them. White-tailed told to White-beak that he has sent the fox to eat the remains of the body of the hunted animal.

White-beak took magpie to her home and promised her that an owl is his friend and he would bring some food from him. When White-beak reached owl’s house, she saw the owl was beating the Long-tailed and Long-tailed wanted the help of

White-beak. White-beak made peace between them and asked Long-tailed about the cause of their fighting.

Long-tailed replied that he came to the owl’s house and told him not give any food to the magpie but the owl attacked him.

White-beak asked that why he is so greedy.

Long-tailed accepted his mistake and apologized to the magpie and brought some food from his house and gave it to the magpie. Thus, they became friends again.