In the middle of a forest clearing, a monkey sat on a stump reading the morning newspaper. She didn’t even notice a wild goose approaching her.
“What’s new in the world?” the newcomer asked.
The monkey lowered her diary.
When she saw the goose, she said contemptuously: “What? Nothing for you! You don’t understand such things!”
Then she continued reading.
The goose was sorry to hear those words. She nodded her head and waddled away.
A week passed.
As usual, the goose was walking along a narrow path when she heard someone wailing: “Help me, please, someone! Help!”
The goose followed the tearful voice. After a while, she came to the edge of a deep pit. At the bottom, she saw the monkey.
It was the very one she had met in the meadow recently. “Alas, oh dear,” the monkey sobbed.
“How did this happen to you?” the goose asked.
“People covered the pit with thin branches and leaves. I, unhappy soul, fell into it. This is my end! Hunters will come soon and kill me.”
The goose thought for a moment and then said: “I will set you free!”
“You? You don’t have enough strength to pull me out of here,” the monkey replied helplessly.
Exhausted by fatigue, hunger, and thirst, she succumbed to despair. She resignedly accepted her poor fate.
The goose didn’t wait for anything. She acted quickly and decisively. She took nearby sticks, pebbles, and parts of branches in her beak and threw everything into the hollow. It wasn’t long before the monkey managed to reach the edge. Suddenly she was liberated. Before the goose could recover, the monkey disappeared into the jungle.
She didn’t even say thank you for the rescue. The goose didn’t mind, though. She was glad she had saved one precious life.
The monkey soon got over her fright.
That very same day, she lay in the shade under a tree and reasoned: “Why did such an unfortunate event happen to me and not that simple-minded goose?. There is simply no justice in the world! Fools just always have luck!”