Kids’ Corner - Sudhakar Attili.
A miserly fox’s story
There was a fox in a forest. It was searching for food and saw a hunter carrying a dead deer. Suddenly the hunter saw a pig and kept the deer aside and aimed his arrow towards the pig. When he shot the arrow, the pig got hurt and it charged on the hunter. In that fight the pig killed the hunter and it died because of wounds. During that fight a snake also got crushed and died.
Thus the fox found meat of a hunter, deer, pig, snake and it was so happy. Even though it has so much of meat to eat, it thought “I can eat the meat of hunter for few weeks, deer’s meat and pig’s meat for few more weeks, snake’s meat for a day. Today I can finish the thread of the bow made of nerve” and it started biting the string of the bow. After a while the string broke and the bent wooden frame of bow released of tension and hit the fox in its heart and it died on the spot. Because of its miserliness, the fox lost its life.
Moral : Miserliness is not good for leading a happy life. It is one of the six enemies (Arishadvarga) which spoil our character.
Can you find the word?
1. This word a 5 character word which means “large elaborate meal, treat.”
2. Ignoring first character means “A direction.”
3. First, Second, Third and Fifth characters form a word, which means “remarkable achievement”.
4. First, Third, Fourth and Fifth characters form a word, which means “moving or done quickly”.
What is it?
Tricky questions – Smart Answers
1. Which one these are more heavier? a) One Pound Iron? b) One Pound Cotton?
2. Even though it is having feet, it doesn’t have legs. What is it?
3. What element says that it runs?
4. What does A.I.D.S in mathematics stand for?
5. What Indian city name sounds like ‘it has no luck’?
6. How do you read 9T5? (Answers in the next page) It is never too late to start a noble work. Let us start it today.
Cross Word for kids
Across : 18. Large container for liquid or gas. Armoured fighting vehicle moving on Caterpillar tracks. (4) 19. Abbreviation of ‘International Standard’.(2) 20. Sheltered place where a wild animal regularly sleeps or rests. (4) 22. Short form of ‘Input Output’, which is in Radio. (2) 24. Two Character code for Illinois. (2) 25. Each of the projecting pointed parts of a fork. (5)
Down : 1. Bunny’s favorite food; Tapering Orange-Red root vegitable. (6) 2. Tailless monkey. (3) 1. Birthday celebration looks in complete without cutting this. (4) 5. Part of a curve. (3) 8. Name of a month. (5) 10. Snake like fish. First character disappeared. (2) 11. Sovereignty, rule. Usage like ‘During Akbar’s -----‘ (5) 12. Abbreviation for Civil Engineering. (2) 13. Extent or measure of a surface. (5) 14. Five character word ending with third person singular feminine pronoun, which means alternative. (5) 17. Extremes of ‘SWAN’. (2) 3. Balarama’s brother, who preached Bhagawat Geeta. (7) 4. Three-Fifths of ‘Eight’. (3) 6. Temporary decline in economic activity or prosperity, ‘o’ is missing. (8) 7. Free from dirt or impurities. (5) 9. Sun is to Solar; Moon is to -----. ‘U’ missed in it. (4) 15. Opposite of ‘short’. (4) 16. Long wooden shaft with a pointed metal head. Bottom to top. (4) 21. Ends of ‘Ringer’. (2) 23. Move or Depart; Written upward. (2)
Send your answers (Crossword and ‘Can you find the word?’) to the below address or e-mail on or before December e-mail : [email removed] Mailing Address: Editor, Sanghamitra, [address removed] Answers to “Tricky questions – Smart Answers”.
1. Both of them weigh the same. 2. Yard stick. 3. Iron (Sounds like ‘I run’). 4. Addition, Into (for Multiplication), Division and Subtraction. 5. Lucknow (Sounds like ‘Luck no’) 6. Ninety Five (Nine + T + Five).