The Pot Of The Wit - Short Stories For Kids

The Pot Of The Wit - Short Stories For Kids

The Pot Of The Wit: Once Upon a time, Emperor Akbar became too angry at his most likable Minister Birbal. He ordered Birbal to leave and go away from the kingdom.

Accepting the orders of the Emperor, Birbal left the kingdom and gone far away from the kingdom and started working on a farmer's field in an unknown village. He also changer own identity.

Many weeks gone, Emperor Started missing him. He was not able to solve the issues of empire without Birbal's Advice.

Then Emperor realised their mistake, ordering Birbal to leave the kingdom in anger.

To find Birbal, Akbar sent his soldiers, but they failed to find him because Birbal has changed their identity. Nobody knew where was Birbal live. Akbar finally got an idea.

He sent a message to every village head, to send a full pot of wit to the Emperor and if they can't then they have send the pot filled with diamonds and jewels.

This message was also reached in that village where Birbal live. The peoples of the village came together. Everyone started talking about what to do now? How can we fill the pot with wit, it is not a thing, which can be filled in the pot. But if we can't fill the pot with the wit so we have to fill it with diamonds and jewels, How will we arrange diamonds and jewels to fill the pot to send it to the Emperor Akbar?

Birbal, who was also there the part of crowd among the villagers, said,"Give me the pot, I will fill this pot with wit in one month". 

Everyone agreed and gave him the pot. The villagers still didn't know his real identity.

Birbal tool the pot with him and went to the field. He had planted watermelons on his field. He choose a small watermelon, and without cutting it from the plant, he put the watermelon inside the pot.

He started looking after it by providing water and fertilizers regularly to that watermelon plant. Within a few days, the watermelon grew into the pot too much that it was impossible to get it out of the pot without breaking the pot.

Soon, the watermelon reached the same size as the pot. Then Birbal cut the watermelon from the plant and separated it with the pot. 

Later, he sent the pot to the Emperor Akbar with a message that "Please remove the wit without cutting it from the pot and without breaking the pot".

Akbar  Watched the watermelon in the pot and happily realized that this could only be Birbal's work. Akbar himself came to the village, and took Birbal back to the Kingdom.

Moral from the Short Stories For Kids The Pot Of the Wit: Don't take any decision quickly in anger.

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