Bird Stories
The Value of Friends
A hawk once lived alone at a large lake. Until, one day a lady hawk came and he asked her to be his wife. She told him she would but that he needed to make friends first. So the guy hawk went out and made friends with a tortoise, osprey, and a lion. After they became friends the two hawks decided to start a family on an island they thought would be excluded from all people. It turns out this island was not far enough away and one day two men came along to camp on the hawks' island. The men were planning to catch the hawks' babies so the guy hawk went and got his friend the osprey. The osprey came and detoured the two men for quite some time. Then the hawk got the tortoise and the men tried to catch him but he dragged them back into the lake. Finally, the hawk went to get the lion who was able to scare away the two men for good. The wife hawk then said that was the reason she forced him to make friends. The moral of the story is to be kind to people because you never know when you may find yourself in a situation in which a friend could save your life.
Jataka Tales Comic Books by: Kamala Chandrakant, Ashok Dongre, and Anant Pai from the Reserves at the Bizzell Memorial Library
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