The Brahmin and the Burning Snake

"Give a snake a good name and it will turn out to be a good snake!"

Thus thought a good brahmin as he saw a vicious cobra trapped helplessly in a bush fire.

And taking out his stick and tying to its end his empty bag, he extended it to the cobra. The cobra promptly curled itself into the bag. After scooping it out thus, the well-meaning brahmin let the cobra loose.

The cobra however, following its vicious nature of 'converse gratitude', made a beeline to bite the benefactor himself to death.

A Witnessing fox, feigning ignorance, sought for and got the details of the incident straight from the cobra itself.

"No I cannot believe your story, Mr.Cobra. It is hard to get convinced that you could successfully have adjusted your very lengthy self into that tiny bag," sneered the clever fox,

"I dare you demonstrate it", he challenged the cobra.

Thereupon, the cobra duly entered an coiled itself entirely, inside the bag.

"Do lift up the stick and fling that bag right into the bush fire, Mr.Foolish Good", ordered fox.

There-upon, the brahim followed the advice immediately.

"It is extremely hot here and I am beginning to burn. Do save me!", pleaded piteously the cobra.

"You evil being — who planned to harm your own saviour himself—, should now undergo the punishment due, for your unpardonable crime," retorted the fox to the burning cobra.