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A Story From The Farm Yard

Two roosters were fighting fiercely to be the king of the farm yard. One finally gained advantage and the other surrendered.

The loosing rooster slunk away and hid itself in a quiet corner. The winner flew up to a high wall, flapped its wings and crowed its victory, as loud as it could.

Suddenly, an eagle came sailing through the air and carried it off, with its talons. The loosing rooster immediately came out of its corner and ruled the farm yard from then on.

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Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head.

The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the fi rst thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he foud all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.

When he looked up sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him.

He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he began to make gestures, even when he raised his fi st towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.

At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground. As he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

Why was each monkey wearing a cap on their head?

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head.

The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the fi rst thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he foud all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.

When he looked up sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him.

He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces of him. When he began to make gestures, even when he raised his fi st towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.

At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground. As he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.

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Once upon a time, a mouse who always slept on the land had found an unlucky chance for the intimate accountance with a frog who lived for the mouse herd in the water. One day, the frog was intent on making mischief. He tight the foot of the mouse tightly to his arm. Once joined together, the frog lady’s friend, the male went to the meadow where usually searched for food. He gradually led the mouse for the pond in which he lived and when reaching the bank of the water, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the mouse in with him. The frog really enjoyed the water and swam croaking about, ignoring the dead mouse body floating about on the surface. A hawk observed the floating mouse from the sky and flied down and grabbed with his talon carrying back to his nest. The frog still being fasten to the leg of the mouse was also carried over as prisoner and was eaten by the hawk.

How did the hawk caught the mouse?

A long time ago, in the village in East Kalimantan. There lived a rich family of pak Pesut. Everybody knew him, not because of his wealth, but because of his stinginess. During a long dry season, the villagers were planning to leave the village and look for the place that had enough water for cultivating rice. Some villagers went to pak Pesut's house to inform him about a new place. He refused to join them believing he had enough rice to survive before their stock of rice run out. One morning, when pak Pesut's wife was cooking their last piece of rice, a beggar came to his house, he asked for some rice but pak Pesut lied to him that he didn't have any rice. Pak Pesut was worried thet the beggar would steal the rice, so he told his family to eat hot rice from the cooking pot. It was so hot that they felt their mouth were burning and they jump into the river, the beggar saw that and prayed to God, amazingly pak Pesut's family slowly changed into fish that looked like dolphins. Since then everybody called that fish "Pesut".

What did pak Pesut ask his family to eat hot rice?

Once upon a time, there was a kingdom named Umbul Wening. A king has a beautiful daughter named Dewi Arum. She liked to swim and could spend hours swimming. One day, the people in the kingdom suffered the terrible illness. One night, the kind had a dream. In his dream, he saw an old man who said the the illness could be healed by a flower in Krenda wahana jungle and Dewi Arum was the only one who could get it.

After a very difficult journey, the princess found the pond but the king got angry with her for going on the journey and cursed her, "you don't deserve to be the princess and live in the palace. You deserve to live here in the pond," said the king. The princess disappeared and in her palace a beautiful flower rose. The king regretted what he had said but it was too late. Then, he brought the flower to the palace and everybody got cured. Till today, people called it the Lotus.

What did the princess Dewi Arum find in the jungle?

A Long time ago a very cruel king named Virat Singh. He was the ruler of Vijay Nagar. All citizens were fearful because of his cruelty.

Virat has a dog named Jack, which he used to love more than anything, one fateful morning Jack died. Virat Singh organized last rituals for the dog, entire city came to the cremation ground. Virat Singh was very happy to see that people love him so much and he felt he is the most popular king in the world. After few days Virat Singh died, but nobody came for his funerals.

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The Rabbit and the Turtle

One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so slow.

Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought.

The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.

However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere! He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him.

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The story of smart parrot

A man in Puerto Rico had a wonderful parrot. There was no another parrot like it. It was very smart. This parrot would say any word-except one. He would not say the name of the town where he was born. The name of the town was Catano.

The man tried to teach the parrot to say catano but the bird would not say the word. At first the man was very nice but then he got angry. “you are a stupid bird! Why can’t you say the word? Sat catano or I will kill you!” but the parrot would not say it. Then the man got to so angry that the shouted over and over, “say catano, or I’ll kill you!” but the bird would not talk.

One day after trying for many hours to make the bird say catano, the man got very angry. He picked up the bird and threw him into the chicken house. “you are more stupid than the chickens. Soon I will eat them, and I will eat you too”.

In the chicken house there are four old chickens. They were for Sunday’s dinner. The man put the parrot in the kitchen house and left.

The next day the man came back to the chicken house. He opened the door and stopped. He was very surprised at what he saw.

He saw three dead chickens on the floor. The parrot was screaming at the fourth chicken “say catano, or I’ll kill you!”

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(source: Ratna Sari, 2014)

Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their father had an accident there.

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brother had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.

What did Peter lose while he was running?

Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their father had an accident there.

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brother had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.

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A fox fell into a well and couldn’t get out. By and by a thirsty goat came along. Seeing the fox in the well it asked if the water was good.

“Good”, said the fox.

“It’s the best water I’ve tasted in all my life. Come down and try it yourself. “

The goat thought of nothing but how thirsty he was. So he jumped into the well. When he had drunk enough he looked around but there was no way to get out. Then the fox said, “I have a good idea. You stand on your hind legs and put your forelegs against the side of the well. Then I’ll climb on your back, from there I’ll step on your horns, and I can get out. And when I’m out I’ll help you out of the well.”

The goat did as he was asked and the fox got on his back and so out of the well. Then he coolly walked away. The goat called out loudly after him out. The fox merely turned to him and said, “If you only has as much sense in your head as you have hairs in your beard you wouldn’t have jumped into the well without making sure that you could get out again."

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Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their father had an accident there.

Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brother had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.

Why did peter got ill?

A Milkmaid had been in the meadow to milk her cows. Now she was returning home with a pail of milk on her hand.

She thought, "I will make cream and butter out of this milk. Then after selling them, I will buy eggs. And when they hatch, I shall have a good poultry farm".

She further thought, "I shall sell some of my chickens and buy a fine dress. Seeing it on my body at the party, all the boys will admire me. But I will turn them away".

She went on day dreaming; she forgot about the pail on her head. She moved her head suddenly and the pail of milk came tumbling down. It was broken and all the milk split.

"Dear, 0 dear!" she cried, "I have lost mine all".

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