Outline.
An old farmer --- sons quarrel ---
a bundle of sticks --- asks them to break it --- none succeeds --- unties the
bundle sticks broken in no time --- Moral.
The Story.
There lived an old farmer in a
certain village. He had three sons. They were always quarreling with one
another. He felt very anxious about them. One day he tied a number of sticks
into a bundle and asked them to break it. They tried, one after the other, but
could not. He, then, untied the bundle and asked them to break the sticks one
by one. They did so in no time. This was a golden chance for him to give them a
piece of advice. “My sons,” he said, “like these sticks, you will be strong and powerful, as long as you are
united. But you will all be ruined, if there is no unity among you.”
Moral. Union is strength.