Hans was on honest, simple, sincere and kind hearted person. He had a small garden. He worked in his garden all the day. He sold the flowers of the garden. He led a very happy life in spring, summer and autumn, but in sinter his condition is not good because he had no flowers or fruit to sell.
Hugh was the owner of a flourmill. He was very rich. He was very rich. He was a selfish and clever man. He showed great friendship for Hans but in reality it was not so. He often went to Han’s garden and took flowers and fruits and he gave him nothing in return.
Hans was always in trouble in winter. He could not earn anything because he had no flower or fruit to sell. He had no warm clothes. He often slept without meals. He had even to sell his silver buttons, silver chain and wheelbarrow. When he was in trouble Miller did not come to see him. When spring came the Miller came to Hans to get flowers. He promised to give him his broken wheelbarrow. Hans thanked him and said that he had a plank of wood and would get the wheelbarrow repaired. But Miller asked Hans to give him the plank of wood because he wanted to repair his roof. He added that he was going to give him his wheelbarrow so he must give him his plank of wood in return. The Miller took away the plank of wood and flowers.
The next day Miller came to Hans and asked him to take a sack of flout to the market. Hans refused to go because he had to do his work in the garden. At this the Miller said that it was unfriendly for him to refuse when he was going to give him his wheelbarrow. The poor Hans had to go for the sake of friendship. Next morning the Miller came to Hans and asked him to repair his roof. Hans could not refuse although he had to water his garden. Next day the Miller asked Hans to take his sheep to the mountain. In this way the Miller always had some work or the other.
One night the Miller came to Hans. He told him that his son had hurt himself by falling from a ladder. He asked Hans to go to the city to fetch doctor, the night was windy and dark. Hans agreed and asked the Miller to give him his lantern. The Miller refused to give Hans his lantern. He reached city and asked the doctor to come. The doctor rode the horse and Hans followed him. Hans lost his way and was drowned in a pool of water.
This story has been told by a bird to a water rat. The water rat was very selfish. Friendship was not a matter if give and take for him. The Miller was just like the water rat. The story tells us that Hans was a devoted friend. But the claim of the Miller for friendship was wrong. ;
In this essay the writer has given a good analysis of birds and animals. He says that birds are more emotional than four-footed animals. He further says that birds are full of variety of emotions such as love, hatered, jealousy and anger etc.
The most striking quality in then is that they do not have common sense. They have only instincts by the help of which they spend their life. It is because of this reason that they can move successfully in a limited circle of life. If they are faced with a new situation they are unable to solve it. He gives two examples in order to prove his point of view. One is the example of pipit bird, which killed its young one because of its foolishness. In an other example wasp attendant killed a grub because of the same reason. In both cases the situations were new and had not been experienced by then before. If they had any common sense, they would have tackled it successfully.
The writer then gives the vivid description of the emotional life of Egrets and Herons. He says that these birds come to Louisiana in spring from Mexico. As they arrive there they remain together for some time and then separated in to groups. Each couple selects a place among the trees, by joint deliberation where they make their nests. After they have lain eggs, they brood turn by turn. When one bird of the couple is sitting the other goes away in search of food. On its return the sitting bird rises on the branches and receives the other by rising on the branches of trees. The coming bird brings a twig or branch of a tree as a gift for the sitting bird. They both set together for sometime and then the others one goes in search of food. This ceremony is repeated several times a day. The writer believes that the survive the species depends on the fact that the two birds should remain tied to the nests.
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