The Jackal and the Strange Sound

Once in a forest, there lived a jackal named Gomaya. He was lazy and never hunted for food. Instead, he waited for younger jackals to catch something and then chased them away to eat it himself.

The other jackals grew tired of this. They met and made a plan to stop him.

“We work hard to catch food,” said one jackal, “and Gomaya just takes it from us!”

“I have an idea,” said another. “We’ll take turns hunting, and while one of us eats, the rest will guard him from Gomaya. He can’t fight all of us together.”

From that day on, Gomaya could no longer steal food. Whenever he tried, the other jackals chased him away. They even stopped him from hunting in that part of the forest.

Hungry and weak, Gomaya wandered far into another part of the forest. Days passed without food, and he grew more tired.

One day, he came across an old, abandoned battlefield.

Suddenly—Bang! Bang! Bang!
A loud, scary noise filled the air.

Frightened, Gomaya ran as fast as he could. But after a while, he stopped and thought, “The sound isn’t chasing me. Maybe I should find out what it is.”

Though scared, he slowly returned to the battlefield. His legs trembled, but he kept going.

To his surprise, he found an old war drum lying under a tree. The wind was blowing the tree branches against the drum, making the loud noise.

Next to the drum, he found leftover food—plenty of it!
Gomaya ate until he was full.

“If I had run away, I would’ve missed this meal,” he thought.
“Sometimes, facing your fear leads to something good.”

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