One day a young frog came home and said to his mother, “Oh, Mother, this morning I saw a big animal, much bigger than you.”
“Did he do you any harm, my dear?” his mother asked anxiously.
“No, not at all. He looked so terribly big, so I dared not get close to him.”
At this moment Father Frog came out of his corner.
“What’s going on here?” he asked, pretending not to have heard all they had said.
“Oh Continue reading
Once, when drinking at the sea of a stream, a thirsty ant fell into the water and got carried away.
“Help, help, I cannot get out! Help!” cried the ant.
Happily a kind bird, a dove, saw the ant’s danger. She plucked a leaf off a tree with her beak, and placed it on to the water just in front of the ant.
“Get on the leaf, Mr Ant, and I’ll carry you to safety.”
The ant quickly climbed on to the leaf, and the dove immediately rose Continue reading
One day a little mouse came running home, crying, “Mother, mother, oh, mother!”
The mother mouse, nearly frightened to death, asked, “Why, what’s the matter?”
“Oh, mother, I saw something terrible in the garden just now. It has made me so afraid! I was truly afraid of it.”
“Tell me, dear, what it was you saw in the garden,” mouse mother said anxiously. ” Come on!”
The little mouse went on, panting, Continue reading
Once there was a monkey who lived in a big fruit tree. The trees was quite close to the sea, and he could see all kinds of fishes swimming and playing around. He made friends with one of them, a big shark who came every day to sit under the tree. So each time the big fish sat under the tree, the monkey told him stories and all that had been happening on land. He even brought the shark food now and then.
One day the shark said to the monkey, “Please come with me to my house. I Continue reading
There was a donkey who was very unhappy because her master beat her every day. She had not much food to eat either. So one day she ran away and went to live in the forest. Here she found plenty of good food and no one beat her. She soon get quite fat.
In the same forest lived a lion. He was very old and was nearly always ill. He was not strong any more.
One day the lion said to the rabbit who took care of him, ” Nurse, I haven’t had any meat for a long time, a very long Continue reading
One day a wolf was eating his dinner. He was very greedy as usual. Suddenly a bone stuck in his throat. He tried and tried to get it out, but he could not.
” What a nasty bone!” he complained.
The bone gave him a lot pain. He was about to cry when he suddenly thought of the crane.
” Ah, ” he said to himself, ” let me go to the crane. She has a long bill. I hope she can help he to get this bone out of my throat.”
So he instantly Continue reading
Salahadin was sitting in his office with his coat off. It was the month of May in Cairo and it was very hot. Salahadin stood up and turned on the fan. He was a young man, only twenty-eight years old. He was not very tall and quite thin. His black hair was cut very short.
Salahadin’s office was in the centre of Cairo. It was in a large building behind the Nile Hilton. It was a small office and Salahadin’s name was not on the door. Not many people knew that he was a Continue reading
The Black Cat
The main character in this story is called Salahadin.
He is an inspector in the Egyptian police. His job is to protect Egyptian antiquities. Antiquity is something which is very old
There are many antiquities in Egypt. Most of them are valuable. Many of them are in museums in Cairo or in Europe. But there are many others which have not yet been found. These Antiquities are buried under the sands, in tombs or in Continue reading