the crocodile and the monkey

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The Crocodile and the Monkey(Short Story)

Summary:Once upon a time there was a clever monkey who lived by the

river Ganga. A crocodile and his wife lived in the same river. One day,the crocodiles wife fell very ill. She wanted to eat something special.She asked her husband to get her a monkeys heart. The crocodiledid not know what to do. Then he thought of his neighbor, themonkey. e said, !"riend #onkey, why do you waste your time eatingthe fruits of this tree$ There are %uicy fruits on the other side of theriver.& 'hen the monkey said that the river was too big for him tocross, the crocodile offered to take him on his back. After a while, the

crocodile sank in the water along with the monkey. e told themonkey that his wife was sick and wanted his heart. The monkeyreali(ed that he had been foolish to trust the crocodile. e )uicklythought of a clever plan to escape. e said, !Alas friend* Our heartsare not inside us. 'e have to keep them hanging on trees. + wish youhad told me earlier. ets go back and bring my heart.& The crocodilebelieved the monkey and brought him back to the tree. The monkeyat once climbed up the tree and escaped. e said to the crocodile,!-ou have a big body but no brains*& The crocodile had nothing to dobut repent for his foolishness on being tricked by the monkey.

Moral of the Story: resence of mind always works.

/e careful who you put your trust in.

0ont do onto others what you dont want others do unto you


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Why The Sky Is So High(Short Story)

Summary:

ong ago, the sky was very low. +t was so low that people couldtouch it if they raised their hands. At the hori(on, where the sky nearlytouched the earth, was a village. ere lived an old woman all byherself. All day long she was busy with her household chores.1leaning her utensils, scrubbing the floor, and dusting her courtyard.

One day, she saw that her courtyard was very dirty. So shepicked up her broomstick to clean it. She swept the ground so fast

and so hard that it raised a storm of dust. +n a minute, her house andthe entire village became covered with dust and when it reached thesky, it started coughing. The poor sky nearly choked as the womancontinued sweeping the ground. Suddenly the sky 2Snee(ed. +t wassuch a thunderous snee(e that the whole village shook* eople ranhelter3skelter, scared that the sky might fall. /ut the old woman keptsweeping oblivious of what was happening.

After a while, it became so unbearable for the sky that hestarted crying helplessly. uge teardrops fell on the earth. +t made the

courtyard muddy. 4ow this was too much for the woman to bear. Sheraised her broomstick and whacked the sky, !Get lost you wetblanket*& she yelled. The sky was so scared that he moved higherand higher and swore never to come down again.

Moral of the Story:


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Why the Sea is Salty(Legend)

#any years ago, the sea tasted like ordinary rainwater. +t wasbland and tasteless. "ortunately, the people living in the islands knewabout a friendly giant who kept mounds of salt in his cave.

The people would cross the ocean on their boats to reach thegentle giant5s island, and that is how they were able to bring salt backto their villages, in order to prepare tastier meals.

One time, however, the ocean was )uite rough and they couldnot sail out to gather salt. They eventually ran out of salt and thevillagers no longer en%oyed their tasteless meals. They wondered how

they could get salt again, when a child suggested they ask the giantto stretch out his legs over the ocean so that they could walk to hisisland instead.

The kind giant agreed, and villagers with empty salt sackswalked along the giant5s leg. 6nfortunately, the giant5s foot landed onan anthill, and the ferocious red ants started biting the enormous leg.

7urry*7 pleaded the giant, who strained to keep his itchy legsstill.

As soon as the people reached the giant5s island, heimmediately withdrew his foot and scratched the itchy bites. The

villages %ust smiled at how a giant could be bothered by tiny ants.Anyway, the people got their salt and the giant again stretched

his leg over the ocean. +mmediately, the ants began biting his swollenfoot. Once again, the giant asked the people to hurry up, but theheavy salt sacks slowed them down.

/esides, the people didn5t believe that the tiny ants could reallyaffect the giant, so they idly chatted away, and walked rather slowly.

/efore the villagers could cross the ocean, the giant cried outand thrust his ant3bitten foot into the ocean. All the packed salt fell

into the plain3water sea and melted.The giant saved the people from drowning, but no one was ableto recover the spilled salt. "rom that day onwards, the sea becamesalty.


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Why the Sea is Salty(Myth)

ong, long time ago, in the South coast of Asia, there is a big cavewhom a giant live there. is name is Asong. The villagers near the caveknew him and Asong always helped the transport salt from themountains to their village for everyday use. Since he was gigantic, hecan travel half of the world %ust in three days.

/ut once, the town5s people from other towns heard about howproductive the village was, they planned to associate with the villagersthere8 but honestly the want to invade the place. 9nowing by thenumber of people, they forcefully set a deal with the villagers for apromise of greater production in return. /ut, in spite of their fewnumbers, they disagreed because they knew that if the town5s peopleknew about Asong, they will freak out and maybe they will capture

Asong and make him a source of entertainment to everyone. Also, newsreally flies that5s why Asong heard the news immediately and his angerdefeated him. e rage directly to the invaders and drove them away andthe villagers celebrated for the greatness Asong did for them.

:ven though, Asong drove them, they still wouldnt give up sothey planned scheme how they can get rid of the giant.

#eanwhile, while Asong was transferring bags and bags of salt

from the mountain to the village, the invaders sneaked to the forest andas soon as Asong reach the shore they broke %ars full of ants to attack

Asong to let the villagers know that nothing and no one can get in theirway of succeeding. /ecause of the itchiness Asong felt because of antbites he could5t control his balance and fell down splashing into thewater. /ecause of that, the salt sank down, down into the depth.

/ecause of what happened, the villagers5 will to fight rose up andin the end, defeated the town5s people. /ut, unfortunately, Asongdrowned himself and the villagers couldn5t do anything to move Asong

because he5s very big. The villagers %ust acknowledged the great deedAsong gave them and buried him there eventually by %ust putting soil allover his body.

/y the end, because time passes, Asong became a complete landand the people called the land Asia derived from Asong5s name andbecause of Asong, the Sea is Salty.


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