{"id":563,"date":"2026-02-20T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/?p=563"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:12:26","slug":"two-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/two-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">A mighty elephant once lived in a jungle. In the jungle, all the animals lived in harmony and loved each other.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One day, the elephant went for a walk to a nearby farm. There he saw another elephant which was not as mighty as him. But the farm animals treated him like a king.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564\" style=\"width: 902px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"902\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-480x278.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-865x500.jpg 865w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><em><strong>Illustration by: Neha Kumari<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">While the farm elephant was resting, the donkeys brought him food, the ducks got him water, the rabbits massaged his legs and the birds sang for him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Seeing the farm elephant getting a special treatment, the jungle elephant was jealous.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I do not get this kind of respect in the jungle. It seems no one in the jungle is afraid of me,\u201d he said to himself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When he returned to the jungle, he went on a rampage. He uprooted trees and trampled upon the grass.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He got hold of a deer and hit him. A monkey was the next to get a beating from him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As word spread in the jungle about the elephant\u2019s anger, all the animals went into hiding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Since that day, no one dared to go close to the elephant. He had started to believe he had earned the respect which the farm elephant received.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But the ants could take it no more. They conceived a plan to scare away the mighty elephant.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">When the elephant was fast asleep, they brought a mix of dirt and chillies and put it close to his snout. The elephant inhaled the mix, causing him pain and unease.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He started running like a mad animal. Seeing him run here and there, the ants had a good laugh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The elephant finally found a pond and filled his snout with water to clean it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The elephant could not comprehend how such small creatures like ants could cause him harm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How could these little ants hurt me? How could they not respect me despite the fear I have created?\u201d he thought.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The jungle elephant then walked to the farm once again, thinking he would join the farm elephant and be respected by all the animals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">As he entered the farm, he saw the farm elephant working alongside other animals. The farm elephant was working the hardest. He was helping all the other animals who were smaller or weaker than him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Soon the animals finished their job. The farm elephant then decided to rest. The animals whom he had helped came running to comfort him.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The jungle elephant understood what had earned the farm elephant so much respect. He was ashamed of his behaviour and decided to return to the jungle to ask for forgiveness from all the animals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-480x278.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele-865x500.jpg 865w, https:\/\/thetoad.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ele.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A mighty elephant once lived in a jungle. In the jungle, all the animals lived in harmony and loved each other. One day, the elephant went for a walk to a nearby farm. There he saw another elephant which was not as mighty as him. But the farm animals treated him like a king.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,89,90,91,11,8,74,88],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-children-stories","tag-elephant","tag-farm","tag-jungle","tag-kashmir","tag-kids-stories","tag-love","tag-respect","enable-dropcap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetoad.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}