1. Two Fighting Cats One day two cats found a loaf of bread.

2. Both the cats wanted the bread so they began fighting.

3. They clawed at each other and fought for long.

4. Along came a monkey. “Why are you fighting?” he asked.

5. The cats snarled, “We are fighting because we both want to eat the bread.”

6. The monkey asked, “Why don’t you share it?” The cats said, “We don’t want the other to get more, so we cannot share it.”

7. “All right,” said the monkey, “I’ll help you to cut it in half.”

8. The monkey tore the loaf into two.

9. “One bit looks bigger, let me make them the same size,” he said, and ate a little of one of the pieces of bread.

10. Then the other piece looked bigger, so he ate a little of it.

11. The cats were so busy fighting each other, they did not see the monkey eating the bread.

12. In the mean time, the monkey ate the whole loaf. The cats did not get any bread, because they were busy fighting.

13. When the cats saw the monkey running away, they knew that they should have worked together and shared.