Tenali and The Two Thieves is a story about Keeping cool and using your wit in dire situations can help you get out of themFree activity sheet available at www.rituvaish.com/tenali-and-the-three-thieves One hot summer evening, as the sun was setting Tenali Raman and his wife were walking around in their garden. As they were going inside their house, they heard the rustling of leaves coming from their beautiful garden. There was not even the slightest breeze blowing at that time, so Tenali Raman became very alert. He glanced around but couldn’t see any animal scurrying around. Not finding any clue to the rustling, he presumed that the rustle of the leaves might be the footsteps of thieves. He understood that they must be planning to rob his house at night.Children, if you heard rustling leaves outside of your house, and you knew it could not be thieves, what else would you suspect it to be?That’s great, it could be a mouse, a chameleon, a bird, …etc.The quick thinker that Tenali Raman was, he thought of a plan and said loudly to his wife, “My dear, I have heard that some notorious thieves are on the loose in our neighborhood. So, let’s hide all the jewellery and money that we have in the well after dinner.” His wife was confused, but she knew Tenali well and went along with what he told her.A little later, Tenali Raman and his wife came out of the huge house carrying a big trunk and dropped it into the well. Then they went back inside the house and pretended to go off to sleep.The thieves waited till midnight and then started drawing water from the well. They hoped happily to empty pull out the trunk, and when they opened it, they were extremely shocked and disappointed.Children, why do you think the thieves were disappointed?Great.They were disappointed to see only some big stones in it. They understood that it was Tenali Raman’s clever plan to outsmart them. Just then, Tenali Raman came out of his house and said, “Thank you friends, for watering my plants. I must pay you for your labour.”Hearing this, the thieves fell at Tenali’s feet for forgiveness. Tenali let them go when they promised not to steal or rob anyone anymore.Moral – Keeping cool and using your wit in dire situations can help you get out of them.

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