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He came down from the house. The prince then knotted the house and asked the servant to feed him. The house after some movement agreed to feed the grass. There was also further instructions given to the servant to clean the dirt of the horses. The long was very kind and ruled for the kingdom very wisely. His father used to love birds and there were many of them that he kept. But all of them deid but one of them was remaining. It was a very beautiful one. It was also the rarest of species of that time. The king's father also used to consider it lucky because when it became older he went on to win many battles. He gifted the bird to his son and asked him to take good care of it. The king's obligued to his father's words and after his death he started to look after it by himself. He used to feed him and do all the other things by himself. He didnt consider anyone fit to given the responsibilities in their hands. After the bird became more older the kingdom was married to a beautiful princess and they had a son. The king was happy and considered the bird for the birthday of the new born baby. He arranged a fest in the empire for it. He was so happy with the bird that he decided to gifted a golden next to it. The nest was a very beautiful one just like the bird. It was also very expensive. The successor of the king,prince james found himself engaged in all forms of debts. He was into gambling and most lots of money in it. He did not know how to pay the debts. The king soon got to know about it. He was very angry with the prince. He expected such kind of a behavior for him. So he decided that he would not be given any money since he was into gambling. James didnt know what to do. He was addicted to gambling and could not resist himself from getting into it. So he made a plan to get money. He decided to steal the golden nest. The night after that night he choose to act accordingly. Everybody was sleeping as usual. He quietly entered into his father's room and and without making any noise quietly moved towards the nest. He then grabbed the bird in it's mouth who was asleep and moved it aside. He took the nest and moved away from the scene. He then kept the nest in his cupboard and soon went to sleep. The day after the king whole upon only to find the missing nest. He was perplexed and could not know who could have stolen it. He had trust upon his ministers and servant and was pretty sure that nobody from his palace could have done this. He doubted that a outside could have done it. So he asked his men to search for it in the city instead of his own own palace. The prince took the nest and went to the market to sell it for a good price. He sold the nest to a rich person. He have a good sumone of money for it to the prince. The prince was very happy with the price. His father didnot know about the incident. The prince with the price money started gambling again. He invited all his friends for a fest. His friends also visited him for the party. The prince had lots much of his money in gambling. He lots his chain and many other valuable things when he didnot have money to play with. But still he could not resist his temptation and even losing the same he returned to the same and most more money. At the end he had no other option to became a their and choose wrong means to accomplish his aim. His father in the other hand,wad in sharp contrast of his son. He has given many valuable things to his ministers,servants and people as a price whenever they were able to do what the king want. They also love the king for it. But the prince had no relationship with it at all. He used to ill treat his ministers but his father used to forgive him thinking that when he will be the king he will be able to understand his misdeeds. James used to pass his time in leisure and was not mindful of his duties towards his father and people. With the growing age he went more into his cultivated world and didnot want to take responsibilities. He used to torture his wife took. At last his wife took left him. The person whom he sold the nest came back to his home. He used to live on to of a hill. He kept the nest beside the window and went to sleep. The nest was kept in a way such that it can fall on the street from the other part of the window. But the person had no knowledge about it. He was in deep sleep when the nest fall from the window and landed onto the street. It was night time so there was no one in the street. The nest kept tooling and finally found its way from the hill to the land. The minister, who was one of them of the king was going from that way.the nest came tooling down right infront of his very. He took the nest in his hand and was surprised to see the same nest that the king had lots the other day. He took the nest and moved towards the palace. In the next morning he shows the nest to the king and the king was very happy to see the nest.He have back the nest to the bird. On further investigstion, he found that the nest was stolen by his son,James. He was very angry with his son. He could not believe that his son could have done such a things. He ordered his men to given him severe punishment. Just at that monent, one of the ministers told the king not to given severe punishment to the prince and should forgive him for what he has done. The king understood the situation but asked the prince that he have to pay a price if he wanted to find himself landed in safety. The prince agreed. The king asked James that he have to want the most money that has gone in vain. James agreed to the condition. Though he has no clue how he was able to returned the money. Finally an idea struck his head. He asked his father that he would returned the money but he needed some time for it. There was a competition in which one have to kill tigers within a month. The competitors were taken into a forest where abundance of tigers were found. One have to kill as many tigers in the given amount of time (this is a work of fiction and harming of animals is a punishable crime) to win the competition. He took his horse and went into the jungle. At the end of the competition he killed five tigers and he was successful in achieving the first price in the competition. He had to struggle to kill the last as he missed his bullet just by an inch. He was able to kill it even after being attacked. He stabbed it with a knife near the neck. After winning the first price he could return the money to the king. The prince asked for forgiveness to the king for his misdeeds and the king also forgive him for what he has done. The king was very happy that his son was able to understand what he wanted him to do for so many days. He announced his son,prince as the new king. Thus the prince had to prove himself right to get away from the world of punishment that he came from by escaping.

April 08, 2021 12:07

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