English Grammar and Composition Learning

The cat and some mice Once some mice were having a good time in the house of a rich man. They always roamed about crying and leaping even biting the children. The owner of the house brought a cat to drive them away. The mice fell in great problem. So they could not move about freely. At last they hit upon a plan to get rid of the cat and held a meeting. The speakers discussed the problem of the cat and made different proposals but none of the proposals was good enough to accept. Then the meeting was about to finish but they could not find out any solution of the problem. Suddenly a young mouse stood up and said, “Let us tie a bell round the cat’s need. Then we will be able to hear him coming and save ourselves in time.”     All the mice praised the idea and thanked the young mouse. But an old mouse thought about the idea seriously, stood up and said, “Dear friends, listen to me. No doubt, the idea is good but who is going to bell the cat?”   But nobody came forward to do this di

An honest wood cutter and the axe Once there lived a woodcutter in a village. The village was near a deep forest. The woodcutter was very poor but honest. The forest was on the bank of a deep river. One day while cutting wood his iron axe fell from his hand into water. Then a wonderful thing happened. A beautiful fairy appeared before the wood cutter while he was crying bitterly. The fairy wanted to know about the reason of his crying and the woodcutter told her about the sad incident. Hearing this, the fairy took pity on him and also decided to test his honesty. She dived into the deep water of the river, bought one gold axe and asked him. “Is this your axe?”    “No.” replied the honest wood cutter. The fairy again dived into the water and brought a silver axe. The man did not accept the silver axe and also said that it was not his own axe. The fairy went into the water for the third time and she returned with his real iron axe. This time the wood cutter became very glad and