NCERT Solutions for Class 6 English Supplementary Chapter 6: The Monkey and the Crocodile

This story gives the lesson that we should not trust anyone blindly. We must think before making any decision. This message has been brought forward through the story between a monkey and a crocodile. The story is of friendship between them. The monkey lived alone in a tree that was laden with fruits on a riverbank. The monkey was very happy, but he also used to feel equally lonely because he did not have anyone to talk to. One day a crocodile came near the tree, and the monkey offered him fruit to eat as an act of kindness. The crocodile found it to be delicious and started coming every day, and very soon the monkey and the crocodile became good friends, but his wife did not like the friendship between them, and so one day she expressed her wish to eat the monkey's heart. To keep his wife happy, he invited the monkey to have dinner with him. While taking the monkey to his home, he told the truth about his wife's wish. Upon hearing it, the monkey asked the crocodile to go back into the river as he had forgotten his heart along the and quickly jumped onto the tree, said goodbye to the crocodile.