00:00The boastful wrestler
00:01Once, a tall, handsome, well-built wrestler visited a king's royal court.
00:17He said to the king,
00:19Your Majesty, I am very healthy and my body is full of strength.
00:25I can drink hundred liters of milk a day.
00:29I can fight ten wrestlers at one go, single-handedly.
00:35I had once lifted a mountain on my head and my fights with lions are well known.
00:42The king heard all the wrestler's tales and seeing him, he was impressed.
00:48He gave the wrestler a post to work on.
00:52The king was sure that someday his services would be needed.
00:56The wrestler did not do much.
01:00Mostly, he used to tell his boastful tales and used to eat a lot, sleep a lot and impress the king with false tales.
01:10There was a high hill near the kingdom's border.
01:14It so happened that wild animals from the forests on the hill slopes started entering the villages at night.
01:23They used to spoil the standing crops and often attack poultry and cattle for food.
01:29This news reached the king's ears.
01:32You had once claimed that you had lifted a mountain on your head.
01:38Now is the time to prove yourself.
01:41There is a forested hill near our kingdom's border.
01:45You must lift it and shift or throw it somewhere far from us.
01:51This way, my people will no longer be troubled by the animals from these forests.
01:58Yes, your majesty, we'll go there immediately.
02:02But before that, I want to eat something.
02:06So, he had a heavy lunch and then accompanied the king and the courtiers to where the hill stood.
02:14I am ready to lift the hill.
02:17Your majesty, tell me, should I throw it into the next kingdom or to the country across the sea?
02:24I can do as you wish.
02:26But first, you'll have to call your men so that they dig the hill out of the firm ground before I lift it on my head.
02:37The wrestler was of no use at all.
02:40Moral
02:44False claims get you nowhere.
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