A Friend to All

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Helping Others, Kindness: A compassionate woodpecker risks his life to aid a lion in distress. Later, desperate for food, the bird asks the lion for a small part of his dinner. When the proud lion rebuffs him, the woodpecker refrains from revenge, showing that true kindness is its own reward and expects nothing more. A Jataka tale for children ages 3 - 8.