Completing Story : A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed 

Once there were two friends. They used to live in a certain village. They were very intimate with each other. One day the two friends were walking through a jungle. They promised that they would help each other even at the time of danger. Suddenly, they saw that a bear was coming towards them. Both of them were afraid. One of them knew how to climb up a tree. Soon he climbed up a nearby tree without thinking about his friend. But the other friend was fatty and did not know how to climb up a tree. But he knew that a bear does not eat a dead body. So, he fell down on the ground and stopped breathing. And he was pretending like a dead person. The bear came near him, smelt his face, ears, and nose and thought him to be a dead man. So, without touching him, it left the place. The other friend who was on the tree saw everything. He got down from the tree, went to his friend, and asked him eagerly, “Oh! Dear, what did the bear whisper to your ear?” In reply, the friend said, “The bear advised me not to trust a friend who leaves his friend alone in the time of danger.”

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Once there were two friends living in the same village. They loved each other very much. The village people took it as a model. One day two friends were going through a dense forest. When they reached the middle of the forest, suddenly they saw a bear coming towards them. Both of them became frightened. One of the friends knew how to climb up a tree but the other was unable to do it. The first friend quickly climbed up a tree. He did not think about the safety of his friend. The other friend became very upset. But he did not lose heart. He was intelligent. he knew that a bear did not touch any dead body. So, he made a plan. He lay on the ground just like a dead man. The bear came and smelt his ear and nose. It thought that he was dead. It left the place without doing any harm. Seeing his friend got down from the tree. He thought the bear might tell his friend something important. So he asked his friend what the bear whispered into his ears.

The first friend wanted to give his friend a good lesson. So, he said to his friend that the bear had whispered to him, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.”