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