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A greedy dog story

      A greedy dog stole a large piece of tender meat from a butcher’s shop. He grasped the meat tightly between his teeth and ran home with it.

       On the way home, he came to a small bridge over a stream. As he was crossing the bridge, he looked down and saw his own reflection in the water below; he thought it was another dog that he saw.

        In this other dog’s mouth he saw another large piece of meat.

“If I can get the meat from that other dog, I will have two pieces instead of one,” thought the greedy dog.

       So, he bent down to get the meat and, as he opened his jaws, the meat fell out and was quickly lost in the water. So, in the end, the dog had nothing. He had been punished by his greed.

The two ducks and the fox

One day, two ducks walked along the road to go to the lake for their swim. In the middle of the road, they met Mr. Fox. He sat under the tree.

“Hello, sister. Where are you going?” asked Mr. Fox.

“Good Morning, Mr. Fox. We are going to lake over there. We want to swim. Would you like to join us?” asked the ducks.

“No, thanks. Do you both come along here every day?” asked Mr. Fox.

“Yes, we always walk here every morning,” said the ducks.

“Delicio….. I..I.. mean nice to see you both,” said Mr. Fox.

The next day, the first duck said, “Are we going to swim today? I bet that Mr. Fox is waiting for us and he has a bad plan.”

“I know. I have a plan for him, too,” said the second duck.

On their way they met Mr. Fox again.

“Hello, sisters. Going to swim again?” asked Mr. Fox.

“Yes, we are. Why don’t you take us to the lake and protect us from bad animals?” said the second duck.

“Of course. It’s my pleasure,” replied Mr. Fox.

“This is an easy way to have a free lunch. I have a big bag with  me now,” though Mr. fox.

Three of them walked to the lake and sang some songs.

“When I say run, let’s run fast together,” said the second duck, “Run!!!”

They ran so fast and jumped into the lake. Mr. fox jumped upon them, but he forgot that he could not swim. So, Mr. fox drowned in the lake. He failed to get his free lunch.

THE LONELY LANDY

One day, there was a porcupine named landy. He was lonely. No one wanted to play with him, because they afraid of his spikes.

“dear landy, we don’t want to play with you because your spikes are too sharp. We don’t want you to hurt us,” said cici the rabbit one day.

“cici is right, landy, it is not because you’re bad or rude to us, no, landy, just because of your spikes. They will stab us if we are close to you.” Said tito the rooster.

Landy felt lonely. Landy spent most of the time day dreaming at the river bank. “I would be happy if there were no spikes on my body.”

Suddenly, kuku the turtle appeared from the river. He came to landy and said, “landy, what are you thinking of?”

“oh, nothing.” Landy replied.

“don’t lie to me, landy! Who knows I can help you.” Said kuku  wisely. Then he sat beside landy. He wasn’t afraid of landy’s spikes.

Shortly, landy told his problem. Kuku nodded his head. He said. “poor you, but it isn’t your fault. I know your spikes are very usefull and helpful for you. They will realize it someday, trust me!”

Thanks, kuku, you are my best friend.”

One day, koko the frog held his birthday party. He invited all his friends, including landy. But he decided not to com. He didn’t want to mess up the party.

“I’ll come with you landy. I’ll tell everyone that you’re harmless.” Said kuku, finally landy attended the party. Everyone enjoyed it.

Suddenly tito screamed, “help…help…! The evil wolf is coming. Save yourself!” then, everyone saved their lives, except kuku and landy. Kuku pulled his head and his leg into his shell. And landy rolled his body into a ball.

Unintentionally, the evil wolf touched landy. Of course, the spikes pricked him. He screamed. “ouch!” since his foot was bleeding, he didn’t chase landy’s friend any longer. Then, he ran away.

“horray… horray…! Long live landy! He saved our lives.” Said cici and her friends. They thanked him from then on. Landy wasn’t lonely anymore.

The end

The Fable of Birds and Tortoise

          Once upon a time, there was a big feast in the sky, all the birds were invited to a feast by the people of the sky. Tortoise was very clever and very hungry and as soon as it heard about the great feast, it began to plan how it would travel to the sky.

          Tortoise went to the birds home and asked if it could go with them. The birds agreed and they each give it a feather, with which it made a pair of wings for the Tortoise.

          The great day came, and Tortoise and the birds set off on their journey to the sky.

          Finally, the birds and Tortoise arrived at the party. The people of the sky invited the birds to eat the delicious food they had prepared, but then Tortoise asked, “For whom have you prepared this feast?”

          “for you, because you are special animals,” replied the people on the sky.

          Tortoise turned in the birds and said, “Remember i am is the most special animal, cause i am the only on Tortoise who can fly. You will eat after me.”

          The birds waited angrily as Tortoise ate and drank most of the feast. Then they came forward to eat, but a few of them were too angry to eat. Before flying home, each bird took back the feather it had lent Tortoise unnoticely. So, there Tortoise stood full of food and drink, but without any wings to fly home.

          When the feast is over, birds and Tortoise jumped back go home, but the tortoise was surprised because he lost his wings. So, the Tortoise fell and fell and fell and landed with a great crash on the ground. It wasn’t hurt but its shell broke into pieces. fortunately, there was a good doctor in the neighbourhood. Tortoise’s wife sent for him and he collected all the bits of Tortoise’s shell and stuck them together. That is why, Tortoise’s shell is not smooth