The moral of this story is to watch who you become friends with. Not everyone is who they say they are and you can't always believe everything they say. They may just be getting close to you until they get what they want.

Once, three cows lived in a green and fresh pasture near a forest: a white cow, a black cow, and a reddish-brown cow. The cows were kind to each other. They used to graze in the meadow together and sleep near each other.

One day, a reddish-brown lion happened to take a stroll out of the forest onto the meadow. It was hungry and looking for a prey. On catching sight of the cows, it became glad, but could not attack them, because they were together. 

However, the cows were too clever to separate from each other. They knew that if they were together, no predator could attack them. 

It thought of a plan. It went towards the cows, greeted them, and said, “How are you my friends? Are you fine? I have been busy lately, so could not come and visit you. Today I made up my mind to pay you a visit.”

The reddish-brown cow said, “Sir, your coming has really pleased us and brightened our pasture.” Both the white and the black cows were troubled by what their friend, the reddish-brown cow said, and were grieved at its thoughtlessness. They said to each other, “Why does the reddish-brown cow believe what the lion says?

Doesn’t it know that lions seek other animals only to prey on them?” As the days passed by, the reddish-brown cow became more and more attached to the lion. The black cow and the white cow advised it against a friendship with the lion, but their efforts were in vain.

One day, the lion said to the reddish-brown cow, “You know that the color of our bodies is dark and that the color of the body of the white cow is light."

The reddish-brown cow accepted the lion’s argument and started talking to the black cow to keep it busy, so that the lion could eat the white cow. The white cow was left alone and was killed, while the black and the reddish-brown cows were busy in idle talk.

Two or three days passed since the lion devoured the white cow. It became hungry again. It called the reddish-brown cow. The cow answered: “Yes sir!”