Moral Story Series- Frank and Martin

                              Frank And Martin

Once upon a time, there was a young boy named Frank who lived in a valley where lots of that trees grew. Frank would often try to climb up the trees to eat the fruit they produced. But the mw appetising fruits were on the very tall trees that Frank couldn't reach. In the valley, an elderly man named Martin also had a few fruit trees that he looked after very carefully. But as he was getting older, he began to notice that he lacked the strength to pick the fruit, for it was very tiring work.

Martin had some of the biggest and most delicious fruit trees in the valley, which was why Frank had his eye on them. So one day he decided to try and reach the fruits and started jumping up and down the trunk.

Martin, who was looking out of the window, realised that the young boy was trying to steal fruits from his beautiful trees, but however much Frank jumped or tried to cimb, he couldn't reach even the lowest branches of such a big tree.

Seeing this, Martin had a great idea, he offered Frank a ladder to climb up, but in return the boy would have to give him half of whatever he picked. Only then would Martin continue lending him the ladder.

Frank accepted the deal and set to work collecting the fruit, and for one whole morning he went up and down the ladder filling his basket with the fruit they would then share between them. Frank soon realised that he could eat double the fruit if he didn't have to give Martin his share, so he thought up a new, secret plan. Martin, on the other hand, trusted Frank and even began to think they would be friends forever. But the greedy boy managed to rob the ladder from Martin and went off to other trees in the area for more fruits. Realising that it was missing, Martin went looking for it... found it... grabbed the ladder, and then gave Frank such a whack with it that all the fruit the boy had eaten came flying out of his mouth.

 Martin felt very disappointed at the trick and no longer trusted Frank. But he still forgave the boy and they later became friends again, though he never made any more deals with him. But Frank learned that he shouldn't trick people and that promises are made to be kept. He also learned that if he had been honest and not greedy, he would still have been able to enjoy some delicious fruit - even though it was only half of what he would have got alone.

 

Moral value- Generous

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