Once upon a time, there was a farmer who used to live in the woods of the southern forest. He lived alone in that forest. He used to chat with the birds that flew around. The monkeys were his old friends. He had a vineyard in the wood that has widened to the other end of the wood. Grapevine and all other creepy fruits were available there. His food was all about what he sow in his field, the vineyard. The remaining of his work is about to the animals and birds of the wood. He was getting older. He even had difficulty and tiredness over working in the yard. One day, a white bird with a long tail, a new comer in the wood, flew to the farmer as he were sitting under a tree near to his vineyard. The farmer started chatting with the bird. The farmer asked the bird ' who are you?.. I had never seen you before here, you are so beautiful and prettiest among all other birds in this forest' and so on. He noticed that the bird was looking something behind him, there was some grapes in his basket, which he gathered from his yard. He offered some of the grapes to that white, long tailed bird. The bird had all those grapes he offered. The farmer was glad to see this new friend and offered more grapes. But it refused to eat more. Within a moment, the white bird transformed to a beautiful lady with golden crown furnished with rubies. The farmer got startled with this sudden apparition and started sweating. The beautiful lady asked the farmer to don't worry and said 'Iam the Goddess of this woods, I am here to pay you for your kindness and generosity towards the beings of this wood. As a reward and for the protection of my wood, I am giving you the gift of eternity and health' , and the goddess got disappeared from his sight. From onwards that day, he was responsible for the beings in the wood. He worked more hard with the gift of health and protected his fellow companions with the gift of eternity.

(For Children...)
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