8 Moral stories

8 MORAL STORIES

PHONLAWIT SRANGSAKUN 

PREFACE

Moral stories have motto and commentaries to teach readers
Moral tales often contain different animal themes. The story is
very pleasing to children. Causing children to always get
insights at the end of the story, moral stories It is also widely
known today as Love can tame even the wildest , Distrust
interested advice , One bad turn deserves another, etc.

Therefore, we encourage children to have imagination to
stimulate their creativity. Through reading fairy tales Including
making children Have a more loving habit of reading

PHONLAWIT SRANGSAKUN

CONTENTS

The Lion in Love The Fox Without
a Tail
The Fox and the
Stork The Stag at the
River
The Rat and The
Frog The Treasure in
the Field
The Bear and the
Travellers The Town Mouse
and the Country

Mouse

THE LION IN LOVE

A Lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl,
so he went to her parents and asked them
to marry her to him.
The old people did not know what to say.
They did not like the idea of giving their
daughter to the Lion, but they did not want
to enrage the King of Beasts.

At last the father said, “We are glad to
marry our daughter to you, but we fear
that you might possibly hurt her. So if you
remove your claws and teeth, we will give
her to you.”
The Lion loved the girl very much, so he
trimmed his claws and took out his big
teeth.

When he came to the parents again, they
simply laughed in his face, and beat him out
of their house.

“Love can tame even the wildest.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

enrage love trim

to make somebody a strong feeling of trim something to
very angry romantic attraction make something
neater, smaller,
for somebody
better, etc., by
cutting parts from it

claws beat laugh

one of the sharp to hit a person hard to make the sounds
curved nails on the and many times in and movements of
end of an animal’s or order to hurt them your face that show
you think something
a bird’s foot
is funny or silly

THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL

It so happened that a Fox caught its tail in a
trap, and in struggling to release himself lost
all of it but the stump.
At first he was ashamed to show himself
among his fellow foxes. But at last he
determined to put a bolder face upon his
misfortune, and summoned all the foxes to a
general meeting to consider a proposal
which he had to place before them
When they had assembled together the Fox
proposed that they should all do away with
their tails.

He pointed out how inconvenient a tail was
when they were pursued by their enemies,
the dogs; how much it was in the way
when they desired to sit down and hold a
friendly conversation with one another.
His friends failed to see any advantage in
carrying about such a useless encumbrance.

That is all very well, said one of the older
foxes; but I do not think you would have
recommended us to dispense with our chief
ornament if you had not happened to lose it
yourself.

“Distrust interested advice.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

trap stump fellow

a piece of equipment the short part of used to describe
for catching animals somebody’s leg or somebody who is the
arm that is left after same as you in some
the rest has been cut
way, or in the same
off situation

determined recommended dispense

having made a recommend dispense something
definite decision to somebody/something (to somebody)
do something and not (to somebody) to make
somebody/something (formal) to give out
letting anyone seem attractive or good something to people
prevent you

THE FOX AND THE STORK

At one time the Fox and the Stork were on
visiting terms and seemed very good friends.
So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and
for a joke put nothing before her but some
soup in a very shallow dish.

This the Fox could easily lap up, but the
Stork could only wet the end of her long bill
in it, and left the meal as hungry as when
she began.
“I am sorry the soup is not to your liking”,
said the Fox.
“Please do not apologize,” said the Stork. “I
hope you will return this visit, and come
and dine with me soon.”

So a day was appointed when the Fox
should visit the Stork; but when they were
seated at table all that was for their dinner
was contained in a very long-necked jar
with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox
could not insert his snout, so all he could
manage to do was to lick the outside of the
jar.
“I will not apologize for the dinner,” said the
Stork

“One bad turn deserves another.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

Fox shallow bill

a wild animal of the not having much the hard pointed or
dog family, with red- distance between the curved outer part of a
brown fur, a pointed top or surface and the
bird’s mouth
face and a thick bottom
heavy tail

apologize narrow jar

to say that you are measuring a short a tall container with a
sorry for doing distance from one side wide mouth, with or
to the other, especially without handles, used
something wrong or
causing a problem in relation to length in the past for
carrying water, etc.

THE STAG AT THE RIVER

A Stag, very thirsty because of the heat,
came to a river in a forest to drink some
water.
He saw his shadow reflected in the water,
and greatly admired the size of his horns,
but felt ashamed of his weak and thin legs.
I wish my legs were as beautiful as my
horns, he sobbed. While he was lost in these
thoughts, a Lion appeared at the river.
The Stag fled from the river in an instant,
but his horns soon became entangled with
the branches and he found himself stuck.

The Lion quickly caught up with him and
captured him.

How wrong I was to despise my legs which
could have saved me now, had it not been
for my horns which I so admired! he cried.

“The most valuable things are often
disregarded.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

shadow reflect ashamed

the dark shape that to show the image of feeling shame or feeling
somebody/something’ somebody/something embarrassed about

s form makes on a on the surface of somebody/something or
surface, for example something such as a because of something
on the ground, when mirror, water or glass you have done
they are between the
light and the surface

flee entangle capture

to leave a person or to make capture
place very quickly, somebody/something somebody/something
especially because to catch a person or
become caught or
you are afraid of twisted in something an animal and keep
possible danger them as a prisoner or
shut them in a space

that they cannot
escape from

THE RAT AND THE FROG

One day, a country rat wanted to go to
town. He prepared himself and started his
journey.
It was hot on the way. So the rat was tired
and thirsty. He then stopped near a big
pond to drink water for refreshing himself.
Near that pond, there lived a frog.
When the rat saw the frog, he walked
straight towards him. He forced the frog to
take him to the other side of the pond, but
the frog refused. The rat beat up the frog
badly.
So the frog had to give up and agreed to
take him across the pond. The rat was
afraid that the frog might leave him in the
middle of the pond, so he tied his leg with
the frogs leg.

When they were in the middle of the pond,
the frog stopped swimming, wanting the rat
to drown. The rat tried to swim to save
himself from drowning while the frog
looked on with satisfaction.
Meanwhile, there was a hawk flying by the
pond and saw the two animals. The hawk
grabbed both of them for his meal.

“Forcing and threatening others will
cause sin to return to yourself.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

journey force refuse

an act of travelling the strong effect or refuse (something) to
from one place to influence of say that you do not
another, especially something want something that
when they are far
has been offered to you
apart

give up drown hawk

to stop trying to do to die because you a strong fast bird of
something have been underwater prey (= a bird that

too long and you kills other creatures
cannot breathe; to kill for food). There are
somebody by holding
several different
them underwater types of hawks.

THE TREASURE IN
THE FIELD

There was a farmer who had three sons. All
of his sons were very lazy, and no one
helped his father to work in the field. No
one cared to do any work. They only ate
and slept. The farmer was very sad that his
sons were lazy. One day the farmer
became very ill. He called his three sons to
tell them something.
“I have a treasure for you but it is buried in
the field. After I die you may dig it up,” the
farmer said then and died.
The three boys went to the field and dug
the ground. They dug all day trying to find
the treasure, but did not find anything.
Next day they went to the field again and
dug the ground more, but they did not find
any treasure.
The boys dug the field for many days. They
did not find any treasure.
Finally, the eldest son said, “Let us stop
digging. We should grow corn in our field.”
So they brought corn seeds and sowed
them in the land they had been digging.
After one month, the field was full of green
corn seedlings. Three months later, the
plants bore corn and when the corn was
ripe, the whole field became bright yellow.
“This is the treasure that father gave us,”
they said happily.

“Nothing can be gained without effort.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

ill bury treasure

suffering from an to hide something in a collection of valuable
illness or disease; not the ground things such as gold,
silver and jewellery
feeling well

seed sow ripe

seed (of something) to plant or spread ripe (for something)
the beginning of a seeds in or on the ready or suitable for
something to happen
feeling or ground
development that
continues to grow

THE BEAR AND THE
TRAVELLERS

Two men were travelling together when
one of them saw a bear suddenly charging
towards them.
Without warning his friend he quickly
climbed into a tree and hid himself in the
branches.

The other, realizing the danger too late, fell
flat on the ground and pretended to be
dead as well as he could.
The man held his breath and soon the bear
ambled away, for it is said that they will not
touch a dead body.

When the other man was quite sure that
the animal dad gone, he climbed down from
the tree and walking over to his friend,
asked him “Tell me, what did the bear
whisper in your ear, my friend?”
“Well, he gave me this advice never travel
with a friend who deserts you at the
approach of danger.”

“Misfortune tests the sincerity of
friends.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

travel warning branch

to go from one place a statement, an event, a part of a tree that
to another, especially etc. telling somebody grows out from the
over a long distance that something bad or main stem and on
unpleasant may happen which leaves, flowers
in the future so that
they can try to avoid it and fruit grow

pretend whisper desert

to behave in a to speak very quietly to desert somebody if a
particular way, in somebody so that other particular quality
order to make other
people cannot hear deserts you, it is not
people believe what you are saying there when you need it
something that is not

true

THE TOWN MOUSE AND
THE COUNTRY MOUSE

A country mouse lives in the countryside.
He likes to eat fruits. He is happy.
One day, his cousin comes from the town.
The country mouse gathers many fruits for
the town mouse, but the town mouse does
not like fruit.
“This food is horrible!” he says. “Come to the
town with me, life in town is much more
fun.”
So, the country mouse follows his cousin to
the town. They come to a big house. They
enter under the back door. The town mouse
leads the country mouse to a dining room.
The table is covered with food. They start to
eat up the food. The country mouse is
happy.
“This food is delicious!” he says. Suddenly,
there is a noise. The mice run to hide behind
the food.
“Keep very still,” says the town mouse. The
country mouse is very afraid. A cat comes
into the room. He looks around the room.
The cat jumps up on the table.
“Run!” cries the town mouse. The mice run
into a mouse hole.
“Good-bye, cousin” says the country mouse.
“I am going back to the country. There, it is
quiet and safe.”

“It is better to live a simple, quiet life
than a rich, dangerous one.”

- Moral of the story

Vocabulary

countryside cousin horrible

land outside towns a child of your aunt or very bad or unpleasant;
and cities, with fields, uncle used to describe

woods, etc. something that you do
not like

delicious still afraid

having a very continuing until a feeling fear; frightened
pleasant taste or particular point in time because you think that

smell and not finishing you might be hurt or
suffer

REFERENCE

https://www.dailyenglish.in.th/english-fables/
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

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