Incapable Monkey

Written by: Abdullah Fazli

A few monkeys were living in the jungle with a black bear and other animals. It was a drought in the forest and nothing was found for eating.

One day, the black bear was very hungry and went out of his home to find some food. He heard the crying of a yellow monkey’s infant. When he went near, he saw that the infant had fallen from the tree into the river.

The black bear rescued the infant. The yellow monkey became happy and promised the black bear that he would give him some honey as a gift. The baby was amazed and asked her mother that how she would be able to find honey for the black bear because she fell into the river out of hunger.

The yellow monkey replied that she would take some honey from a honeybee hive.

Meanwhile, a red monkey was following the yellow monkey and he informed the queen bee of the issue and he thought that the queen bee might give him some honey as a gift.

The yellow monkey was scared of the bees and ran away, and the queen did not give anything to the red monkey and ran him away from their hive then they went to the yellow monkey’s house and prevented him from entering his house.

The queen bee asked her that why she has stolen honey from their hive. The yellow monkey replied that she had not stolen the honey but the queen did not accept and she ordered the worker bees to attack and yellow monkey.

 The yellow monkey took her infant and she was jumping from tree to tree and finally, her infant fell on the ground. When she came down, she found her infant wounded. She saw that the bees had flown away. She was very tired and did not know where to find honey for the black bear.

She went to the other monkeys’ house to borrow some honey but the red monkey was still following her and she murmured with herself that she would get honey now.

On the other hand, the red had informed all monkeys that the yellow monkey will steal their honey. When the monkeys saw that yellow monkey was coming toward them, they all ran toward her and the red monkey grabbed the honey and ran away.

A monkey saw her and informed other monkeys of the issue. The monkey captured and tied her hands and feet and asked her why she stole their honey. The red monkey told the whole story that she had done with the yellow monkey.

The monkeys asked the yellow monkey about the stealing of honey. The yellow replied that she had not come to steal honey but she had promised the black bear to give him some honey and she wanted to borrow some honey from them and fulfill her promise.

The monkeys wanted her that if she could not keep her promise, then she does not need to promise. The yellow accepted their suggestion. The monkeys invited her to live with them but they did not let the red money live together with them and thus she lost her friends.