Maung Tsik Tun - Why are bears' tails so short?

Why is it so short after the bear?

Once, on a winter afternoon, a bear met a big fox on the road who was dragging fish on a rope.

The bear told the fox .......

“Where did you get such good fish?” he asked.

The fox is a cunning man. The fish are not the ones he caught himself. He doesn't want the bear to know that either. He wants the bear to think that the fox is the one who caught the fish.

So the fox smiled slyly and said -

"These are fish, the fish I caught myself. It's easy to catch fish. Just a moment. I'm thinking about how to cook these fish for dinner. Don't you catch any fish?" he asked the bear.

The bear is hungry and wants fish.

Therefore, he...

"How can I catch fish? If you know how, please tell me," he said.

Hearing the bear's words, the cunning fox

“Go down to the river and make a hole in the frozen ice. Put your tail in the hole. Don’t pull it out until the fish bites you. When the fish pulls on your tail, it will feel like a stick, and it will hurt a little. But don’t pull it out. Sit there for as long as you can. The longer you sit there with your tail in the river, the more fish you will catch. When you feel good enough, you can pull your tail out of the hole. And when you pull it out, don’t pull it out slowly. Pull it out with force. You remember what I said.”

The bear was also happy -

"Thank you very much for teaching me this fishing method. This is a very strange way of fishing. I will catch fish the way I have taught you. I am sure the fish will bite my tail," he said, and ran down to the river. The cunning fox also looked at the bear and laughed.

Soon the bear came to the river. The river was frozen. He dug a hole in the ice. Then he hung his tail in the hole and sat down on the ice. After a while, no fish came to bite his tail. His whole body gradually became cold. Soon his tail became stiff and painful. But he did not pull his tail out of the hole. He thought that fish were biting his tail.

And so it was afternoon. The bear said:

"I've caught a lot of fish with my tail by now," he thought, and stood up and tried to pull his tail out of the hole. But he couldn't stand up anymore. His tail was already hanging over him. He couldn't pull his tail out. The water in the hole had frozen and turned into ice. So the bear's tail got stuck in the ice.

He remembered what the fox had said and yanked his tail with all his might.

Then his tail got stuck in the ice and broke off, leaving him with only a short tail.

From that time on, bears no longer had long tails. Even today, we only see short-tailed cubs.

"Don't believe everything people say, believing everything they say will lead to trouble"

This is a story that teaches a lesson. We should think carefully before believing what others say and believe. In a world full of liars and hypocrites, let us use our own intelligence and intelligence to judge and believe lies and hypocrisy. ]

[From the book Why the bear is stumpy tail, published by The Illustrated Treasury, Grosset and Dunlap, New York, USA.]