White-Tailed Pigeon

     written by: Abdullah Fazli

White-Tailed and Tumbler were the names of two pigeon living in a hillside. They were close friends; Red ant and Tailless pigeon were White-Tailed’s neighbors.

One day White-tailed was celebrating her birthday. She invited Tumbler, Tailless pigeon and Red ant to the feast.

White-Tailed wanted to prepare different varieties of foods for the feast. Tumbler prevented her from wasteful spending and said that the guests could not eat this much foods but White Tailed did not accept and she called the Tumbler her enemy. Tumbler said to the White-Tailed that she wanted her to keep extra foods for her winter.

White-Tailed and Tumbler put the foods in front of the guest. They ate a few grains of wheat and corn. White-Tailed dropped the leftover in the garbage.

Red ant carried the leftover one by one to her home.

The next day, White-Tailed went to Tumbler home for eating lunch with her. Tumbler brought her a few grains of corn but White-Tailed became angry and asked Tumbler that why she did not bring every kind of foods. Tumbler said that she has kept some amount for her winter. White-Tailed became angry and she left Tumbler’s house without eating lunch.

Winter arrived and nothing was found for eating at White-Tailed house. She was getting weak day by day and she was not able to sing a song.

She decided to go to Tumbler’s house but she could not fly and she dropped on the ground.

When Red Ant heard about the incident, she brought some edibles for White-Tailed and she came in her sense.

White-Tailed asked Red Ant that where she has found the grains in this winter.

Red Ant said that she had carried the leftover that Tumbler had dropped in the garbage.

White-Tailed was regretted and said that if she was not wasting the foods in the summer, she might not face such a problem in the winter.