Home reading 2. Fables

There were once two brothers who lived near a forest. The elder brother treated his brother badly. He ate younger brother’s food and took all his good clothes.
One day, the elder brother went into the forest to find some branches to sell at the market. After some time he saw a magical tree. The tree said to him: “Oh kind sir, please don’t cut my branches. I’ll give you my golden apples”.
The elder brother agreed but he did not like the number of apples. He wanted more apples. The magical tree did not say anything but it threw hundreds of small needles upon the elder brother. The boy was crying in pain.
In the evening the younger brother looked for his elder brother and found him with needles in his body. He was sorry about his brother and helped him.
The younger brother took out all the needles and the elder brother became healthy again. He understood that he was wrong about his younger brother and he was sorry.
The magic tree saw the change in the elder brother’s heart and gave them a lot of golden apples.

Moral of the story
It is important to be kind to people and other people will be kind to you.