Kindness

Cooperation is a great value and instinct for the forest. We must spread it and work on spreading it among us. If we planted in ourselves this rooted value, our helping each other would become strong and great in the most difficult of circumstances and narrow situations, which may exist in the life of some of us. This is what the good cat Rose did. Rose was a cat of the striped type living in a rich family’s house, with a beautiful garden. Beautiful plants and fragrant fruits grew in it, and animals with beautiful fragrances would come to it from the fruits that God created for us, so that we benefit from their eating and strengthen our bodies when we eat them continuously without neglecting from us. ...

The cat Umbara suffered from the boy Omar who used to chase her a lot, for Omar would grab on the cat’s tail until he almost strangled her and she screamed and meowed severely. This was Omar’s doing in order to tame his grip around her tail and relieve from his pressure on her, and sometimes he would carry her from her nose and make her swing between his hand and the cat would become saved and meowed, but she would not find anyone saving her and leaving him playing loudly with what he did. ...

Hamsa the sister lived together, and their father was alive. It was the habit of their sisters to swim all the time, every morning and evening. This was their habit. The First Encounter: One time she went to swim. She was swimming in a deep place. There was a small snake swimming. The small snake was the size of a frog and extremely beautiful. She approached swimming toward her, extended her hand, so the small snake bit the palm of her hand. She took it with her. When she reached the bank of the river, the snake cut some tree leaves and placed the small snake in them, then returned her clothes and took it with her to the house. ...

It has come in this great day when all the animals in the forest woke up early because it was the day of the big race for shoes. Everyone gathered again at the tenth hour exactly by the sea. The tortoise also arrived, which was the most beautiful and oldest in the forest, but she was hated for becoming old for any animal in the garden. She began mocking the remaining animals and shouted with a loud voice: Ha… Ha… Ha, mocking the hedgehog who was short and very slow. ...

In the house of one of the farmers, a group of small dogs was living with their mother. One time, the farmer wanted to sell them, so he placed on the wall of his house a board written on it: There are dogs here for sale. One day, this board fell, so the farmer went to fix it. While he was like this, he felt the touch of a small hand pulling from his clothes. He opened to find a small child. ...

On one of the beautiful, bright days, after the rays of the sun had cast their light on the dove’s face, the dove turned to talk to her husband and informed him that she desired to travel from this place where they had built their nest. For years past, they had not left that village where they lived, and they had seen nothing but its animals and farmers and their houses. They would build their nest every year over the palm tree located in the same village, and the place never changed. ...

Inside the beautiful stable, the mother duck, Butta, was lying and incubating eggs she had laid. She gathered them all and sat over them to warm them with her body and beautiful feathers until they hatched and the small ducks appeared. She was awaiting this day with extreme longing until the eggs hatched and she saw her little ones whom she had surrounded with care and attention, providing sufficient warmth for them even as embryos inside the eggshells. ...

Little Mazen is a child in the tenth year of his age. He moved with his small family to a new house near his father’s work so that he would not feel exhausted from driving for a long time. The good father was able to find a beautiful house, and for Mazen there was a special room in it, which he was very happy with, especially the upper room. In Mazen’s view, it abounded with many precious things. He was always fond of everything antique, and in the upper room, he found many jugs, wooden and ivory artifacts, and also brass ones. ...

The sky was clear, the sun was shining, and the sea was calm. The fishermen gathered near the shore, emptying their fishing boats of fish and pearls after a strenuous trip in the depths of the sea. Their families and small children were waiting for them, playing and having fun near the shore, some of them practicing swimming. When some of them were about to drown, the dolphin hurried and rescued them. Sometimes, groups of frightening octopus swarms would visit the shore. When they approached the shore, the children would run away. The children would approach the dolphin and offer him sugarcane sticks and other candies. Whenever the dolphin approached the shore, the children would hurry and practice the hobby of swimming, with smiles on their faces due to the presence of the dolphin, feeling safe near him. ...

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Sina, and she had a small, good, gentle bear named Golo. When the sun rose on one of the wonderful days, the princess wanted to go with the bear on an outing to one of the beautiful places. The princess went with the bear far and far until they reached a distant and beautiful forest known as the Candy Forest. As soon as she looked at the forest, the princess knew why they called it the Candy Forest. ...