Crow Challenge to Swan

A herd of swans was passing over the beach. A crow was also having fun at the same place.

He looked at swans with disdainful eyes and jokingly said, “You guys fly so well!! You just flap your wings. Can you fly as fast as me? Can you show acrobatics in the air like me? No.. You don’t even know exactly what is called flying!”

Hearing crow, an old swan said, “It is good that you can do all these things but you shouldn’t be arrogant about this.”

Crow replied, “I don’t know arrogance, if any of you can compete with me then come forward and beat me.”

A young swan accepted the crow’s challenge.

It was decided that the competition would be held in two stages. In the first stage, the crow should show his flying tricks and the swan also has to do the same. In the second stage, the crow would have to repeat the feat of swam.”

Competition started. In the first stage, the crow showed many tricks. It would go round and round and sometimes it would fly up while touching ground where a swan couldn’t do anything special compared to him.

Now Crow started speaking even more loudly, “I was already saying that you people don’t know anything about flying..”

Now, began the second stage, the swan took off and started flying toward the sea. Crow followed him.

Crow wondered if flying straight over a sea was a challenge and said, “Really!! Is this a challenge? Are you a fool?”

Swan did not answer and kept on flying silently. Gradually they went far away from the ground and the crow’s talk also decreased and in a while, it stopped completely.

Crow was now terribly tired, so much so that it was now difficult for him to even keep himself in the air. Now, he was getting closer and closer to water, again and again.

Swan saw this and understood the crow’s condition but acting unaware, he said, “Why are you touching the water again and again, is this also your act?”

Tired crow replied, “No. This is why I am sorry. I am tired and if you do not help me then I will die right here, save me. I will never show arrogance.. again.”

The swan took pity on the crow, he thought that the crow had learned a lesson, and now it would be better to save his life and he took the crow on his back and flew back to the beach.