Fisher Man and his wife

There was a man who went fishing with his son in a river. When he dropped his fishing line into the river, it got tangled around the root of a tree but the man thought that his fishing line caught a big fish; he could not lift the line; then he told his son to go home and tell his wife to quarrel with the family and the neighbors because he did not what his relatives to ask for some fish. Then his son went to his house to tell his mother to provoke a quarrel. She put on only a strip of cloth round her chest and wearing a s short bikini and she pretended to be like a foolish woman then she painted her face black; and then went to her relatives’ houses.

All her relatives saw her in a strange condition so they asked her “Hi! Why did you do this? Why do you put that black on your face? “Then she blamed them and called them names “Damned! Are your heads heavy when I paint my face black? What is that to you. Do I hurt you when I paint my face black?

All her calling them names and they were very angry with her; then they called her names in return. Some were very angry they took her to the judge. The judge asked her to pay money to those whom she called names.

After the fisherman had told his son to ask his wife to provoke a quarrel with his relatives, he dived to take the fish that the fishing line had caught. When he dived into the water, his head was hurt by the tree which got tangled with the fishing line, his eyes began to bleed; then he fumbled around to fish the fish but he found only the root of the tree then he got out of the water and put up his hand to shield his eyes and finally he went to the place where he took off his clothes. But while he dived into the water, his clothes were blown away by the wind.

The fisherman felt very cold, his eyes pained him very much and he wanted to go home but he could not because he was naked; then he hid within a bush till night came. At night he crept in to his house but he could not because there was light so he asked for clothes from his wife. When he put in on, he entered his house. His wife told him that she gave as a fine all the money and goods to their relatives because she called them nmes.

The two lost everything; the man did not catch the fish, his eyes were hurt, his clothes were gone and his wife was fined by the judge.

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THE HUNTER AND THE BIRDS

There was a hunter who had caught a black bird, a peacock and a heron. He taught them to play circus. He taught the black bird how to speak like men, and the peacock and the heron how to dance. When the hunter taught the tree birds skillfully, he took them to play circus for the king in his palace for gift and money from the king as he wanted. The king asked him “What do the tree birds know”

The hunter replied “This black bird can speak like men” then he let the black bird talk. The black bird spoke showed his knowledge in talking the human language, and then he asked the peacock to dance as well as he was taught. The king was delighted to see the two birds and he told his men to put them in the cage to be in the care of servants.

Next the hunter took the heron off the cage and let him act for the king, but the heron was a clever bird and knew bad times and good times. He thought that the black bird ad the peacock who showed their skill to the king who was delighted to their act, were put in the cage to be in the care of the king’s servants. IF I showed my skill to the king he would put me in the cage as he did to the two birds. Being always in the cage, I shall have no freedom and no happiness. So it is not good to show my dancing. Let me pretend to be ignorant. Then the heron did not dance and cried “krack! Krack!” The hunter try to make him dance but the heron did not do anything, he just cried then the king saw that the heron did not know how to cat so he told the hunter to free him. The hunter freed the heron as the king told him.

When the heron was free from the hunter he flew up and talked to the peacock and black bird “Being clever and proud and making people amused you both, peacock and black bird are in the cage. It is wonderful and happy for you but for me, it is unhappy to be in the cage so I did not show my knowledge. I pretended to be ignorant and I became hated by people then they freed me and now I will see my family whom I left. You, peacock and black bird showed your skill which tied up your neck. I do not admire at all the skill which put you in the cage. Oh poor birds, you did not knew what was good or not good for you in showing your skill so you had better live in the cage for you can not go anywhere. Thus the heron told them proudly and he flew away to his place.

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The Hungry Liar

Once a boy live with his mother who fed a pig grew up, the boy wanted to eat it;; he said “Mother! I want to eat pork. Mother, may I kill your pig to eat it?”

The mother refused saying “No! Why do you like to eat so much?” keep him to sell.” When the boy heard his mother’s refusal, he still wanted to eat pork day after day.

One day, the boy woke up and told his mother “Mother! God send me a dream last night of a place where is a lot of gold. Mother! Could u go with me to bring the gold?”

The mother asked him “where is it?” “If u go with me and do as I tell you. You will see the gold?“ Said the boy.

The boys with his mother took a basket and went to the forest far away from home, then the covered a place with the basket and sat tightly on it and call his mother “Mother! Come to help me to push the basket down on this place where there is a lot of gold.

Mother! Keep on pushing it and wait for me while I run back home to get hoe to dig for the gold. Mother! Keep on pushing the basket, do not leave it. If you leave it, the gold may go away.”

When the mother heard what her son told her, she pushed on the basket strongly and waited for him to come back from home. The boy arrived home, killed the pig and asked his friends to eat and drink happily. The mother waited for him in the forest for a long time. She did not see him come back and was very tired. Her hands and legs were weary so her hand left the basket; then she looked in the basket. Nothing was in it.

When the mother knew that her son played a trick on her, she came back home. She saw her son had eaten up the pork with his friends and rank happily. She was very angry with him and told her brother “My son is very bad. I will not feed him alive any more. You must put him in the sack and throw him alive in the river.” “What was wrong with you? Why do you want to kill your son?” said her brother.

She told him “he plays a trick on me asking me to stay in the forest and to collect gold. I had waited for him along time in the forest until I was hungry. When I came back home I saw that he with his friends had killed my pig and ate it. I had only one pig which I feed for sale.”

Then her brother but the boy in the sack and brought him to the river. When he arrived at the river, the boy said to his uncle “oh my uncle! Please have pity on me. I will die so please go back home and bring my book of lies which I put on the self. When I die I will be reborn. If I do not have the art of lying how could I play trick for food? I may die again.”

The uncle took pity on his nephew, and then he went back home to pick on his nephew and then he went back home to pick up the book for him. The uncle left him by the side of the river.

At that time a leper came to the boy. On learning there was a leper near by he said “To heal my leprosy I have been in the sack a long time, but I can’t see for myself if it has been cured or not. But when I touch my body, it seems to have been cured. The leper heard that the boy was in the sack to treat the leprosy so he asked the boy “Have you ever been cured?” The boy told him “Because I have been a leper, one put me a long time in this sack for being healed but I do not know whether I have been healed or not. Please have pity on me to untie the sack.”

The leper heard the boy said he had cured then he asked the boy “May I cure my leprosy in your sack?” The boy was very happy and he thought “I won’t die. I have this leper to die for me” The boy told the leaper “If you want to heal very fast, you must not speak to him.” When the leper knew the boy’s explanation, he go in the sack and told the boy to tie it up. The boy tied the sack and went away from in.

His uncle could not find the lying book so he knew that his nephew told him a lie. He was very angry and thought “When I arrive at the river, I will throw hi into the river so he walked with a stick.

The boy wanted to be cured so he kept silent. The uncle thought that it was his nephew and after the drubbing he threw him into the water.

When the boy went away from the leper, he met another liar who bathed. That liar saw the boy from a far, he dived for a while and then emerged “I dived to the bottom of the river, I saw people playing cards. I won a lot of money but I could not take it with me. I brought only a little.”

The boy heard and trusted him so he dived into the river to take the money from the people. When he dived, he hit his head on a tree in the water and it started to bleed. Then he knew that the man who told him was a liar too. The boy planned to get even with him and came out of the water. “When I dived into the water to ask for money from people as you have told, I saw many people playing games; I won and got lot money. When I asked money from them, they told me to ask from you. If you do not believe me, look at my broken head.”

The liar knew that the boy was cleaver to lie against a liar. Finally the liar gave him some money and asked him to be brotherly so they could lie together from that day on.

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The deer, the crow, and the tortoise

There were three animals who were friends: a deer, a crow and a tortoise. One day the deer went to look for food in the forest and was caught in a hunting trap. When the tortoise and the crow went to search for the deer they saw him in the trap. They asked him “why did you not see the trap?” Then the deer told them “Oh friends! I was wrong, please help me to save my life.”

The crow and the tortoise agreed to help the deer, and then the crow took some water to soften the trap. They gnawed the trap from evening to dawn, but they could not sever it, they could server only the strings. When the hunter was coming, the crow and the tortoise told the deer. “Friend! Now the hunter will come soon. We can gnaw only two strings. You must break it yourself.”

While the three animals were speaking to one another the hunter came; then the crow and tortoise left the deer alone. They entered the forest to wait for the deer. When the deer saw the hunter come near him, the deer broke the trap and went away into the forest.

The hunter was very sorry to lose the deer then he ran after to bring him back, but he could not run so fast; and then he saw the tortoise who hide in the forest. The hunter brought the tortoise back and set the trap again.

When the crow saw the hunter take the tortoise back, he told the deer a plan to save the tortoise from the hunter; then the crow said to the deer “Let the hunter run after you he will drop the tortoise down and then you must run into the forest.”

The deer agreed. When the deer ran near the hunter, he pretended to have a broken leg; he ran only three legs in front of the hunter. The hunter did not know the deer’s tricks; then he thought the deer had a broken leg, because he was caught by the trap and he ran after the deer.

When the deer looked back he saw that the hunter did not drop the tortoise yet so he planned to be a crippled animal again and ran slowly. The hunter thought “What good is this tortoise? He is enough for only two meals, but the deer will give me much meat.” The hunter dropped the tortoise, and he let the hunter get closet to him. When he was far enough from the place where the hunter dropped the tortoise, the deer came back and picked up the tortoise with his month and the crow guided them into the forest. They live in the forest peacefully.

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The crow and the deer

Once there lived together as friend two animals, a crow and the deer. Later on a wolf met the deer in the forest and wanted to be his friend; then the deer agreed. The two animals often met each other. But the crow know that the wolf was very wicked and this honest; then he warned the deer not to be friendly with the wolf. The crow said “The wolf pretends not to be friendly, when you are taken in by his tricks, he will kill you sometime” By and by deer fell into the wolf’s tricks, so did not listen the crow’s warning. He agreed to come to the wolf’s place everyday.

One day the wolf saw a trap in the forest; then he would lead the deer to it; and when the deer was caught in the trap, he would eat him. Planning to kill the deer, the wolf went to tell the deer that there was good food somewhere in the forest. It was not easy to find food, when the deer heard this, he was very happy to go with the wolf who guided him to the trap. And finally he was caught in the trap. Being afraid of death, the deer called for help from the wolf; the wolf pretended to be afraid of the man who came to see the trap; then he went in to the forest to hide until the deer would be killed; then he would eat him.

One day when the crow did not see the deer come back in the evening; he flew around everywhere as far as the forest where the deer was caught in the trap; then he saw the deer and said to him “Oh, firmed! Why are you caught in the trap?”

The deer told the crow “this is my mistake in believing the wolf who asked me to come with him to find food here; now, when the trap holds me, he leaves me here and goes away. Please save my life.” The crow told the deer to play a trick with the hunter; the he said “when you see the hunter come to see the trap, you lie down as a dead deer and don’t move. Don’t even breathe! The hunter will hear me crowing, you are get up and run into the forest away from the hunter.” The deer agreed to the crow’s plan.

When the hunter came to see his trap; he saw the deer caught; then he thought that the deer dad died. He took the deer off the trap and out him on one side; then he looked around him; when the crow saw that the hunter was not paying attention to the deer, he crowed to let the deer run away and the deer ran quickly at high speed into the forest. When the hunter saw that the deer ran away, he took a sward and ran after the deer to throw the sword at the deer, but the sword dropped on the wolf that waited for the deer’s meat in a bush near the trap, the word struck the wolf’s neck killing him.

The crow guided the deer to the forest where the hunter could not kill him anymore.

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The Female crocodile who wanted to eat the monkey’s heart

When in one of the former births, the Buddha was born as a monkey, called Mahakbin, he was and lived in the forest near the river in which there was a small island in the middle. That island had every kind of fruit for his food. Between the river and the shore, there was a sand bank. The monkey leaped from the shore to the sand bank first, then to the island.

Meanwhile there were two crocodiles, female and male, living in the river. Latter in the female crocodile with child want to eat the monkey’s heart, then she told her husband “I am eager to eat a monkey’s heart. If you can not find one for me, I will die and leave you alone.”

The male crocodile said “Oh, darling! Do not worry. If you are eager to eat it, let me bring one for you because I see every day a bog monkey who always crosses the river to the island. Usually he stops on the sand bank before going to the island; I will swim and creep on that island to kill him for you.”

The Crocodile swam to the island and crept on the sand bank to cover it. He thought that the monkey would think that he was the sand bank,

When then monkey cam back from the island at sunset, he leaped over the shore of the river and he almost leaped on the bank which the crocodile covered; he almost leaped on the bank which the crocodile covered; he saw the crocodile on the bank; then the monkey wondered “This bank is always as high as the surface of the water and why this bank is higher today? Maybe there is some ferocious animal who lying on it and want to kill me and then the monkey called the bank of sand “Oh, friend Sand water, but today you are bank! You are always as high as the surface of the higher. How can you grow so high?” The monkey repeated this sentence three times.

When the crocodile heard the monkey call the sand bank, he thought that the bank was not talking to the monkey, because he covered it, then he pretended to be the sand bank and replied “Oh, friend monkey I am not higher than yesterday. Pease leap on me!”
The monkey: Oh Poor animal, my bank does not know how to talk, who are you?
The crocodile: I am the king of the crocodiles who live in this river.
The monkey: Why do you sleep on this bank?
The crocodile: Oh monkey! I want your heart for my wife, because she is eager to eat your heart.
The monkey: If u need my life, please open your mouth widely and close your eyes, I will jump into your mouth and be sure to closer your mouth.

Then the monkey saw that it was a good chance to leap to pass to the shore. He then jumped on the crocodile’s body and from there leaped on the shore as fast as an arrow. When the crocodiles thought the monkey passed over his back could not catch him; he was very sorry to be witted by the monkey; and he left the sand for his place in the river.

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The Blackbird and the monkey

There were two blackbirds: male and female who set up their nest on a tree. Meanwhile it was raining; a homeless monkey who was stricken with cold came to stay under the blackbird’s tree when the blackbirds saw him terribly shivering, one counseled him “Oh, Brother Monkey, you have two hands and two legs as a man does. Why don’t u build home for your dwelling?”

The Monkey said: “I have two hands and two legs as a man does, thus I am a nestles animal. The trust is I cannot do it.” The blackbird said again “You do not need knowledge to build your nest. You see the bird have only one beak and they can build the nest which they need for their protection from the cold and the rain. You had better think it over. Am I right or not? All the animals in the world have their own dwelling to protect their babies and their mates from suffering. If you cannot build a good nest, you just put branches one on another and you cover it with leaves for your own nest for a while. You do not depend on another dwelling or on a branch or on a tree. It is very difficult for your mate and your young ones. Monkey you have two hands and two legs, I think you can do it. Please do it, do not wait for your knowledge to help you.
All the animals have only strength will work in their own way. They never work like the human being. You see even the worm, the locust and the termite which are very small, but they have their own habitation, and you, why can’t you do it? Other animals have no more knowledge thank you, but they are able to build habitations for their own. You said that you can’t do it, and you are lazy animal.”

When the monkey heard the blackbird criticize him, he became very angry, because he was ashamed before the blackbirds, and then he swung straight to blackbird’s nest and drop it down.

Do not give counsel those who don’t want to listen.

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The rabbit and the palm fruit

There was a rabbit that lived under a palm tree near a hillock. One day he was sound asleep, when a rope palm fruit fell down on the ground near by. He heard the cracking sound of the dried palm leaves.
At this sound, he was frightened, and said to himself “It is an earthquake!”, and then he jumped up and began running without looking behind. When the Oxen saw him in high speed, they said to him,” Rabbit! Why are you running so fast? What is the matter?”
The rabbit shouted in haste “brother oxen! It’s an earthquake! Don’t stay here! Run!” The oxen heard what rabbit had said and they were frightened too, and they began to run, and soon after they met the Pigs and Deer. They too ran after the Oxen and the Rabbit. When the Elephants saw them running, they too, asked “why are you running, Oxen? What is the matter?” The Oxen told them “do not stay here! The earthquake is coming!” Hearing the story, the Elephants jointed them. When they all reach the Lion’s den, the clever lion seeing all the panic-stricken animals asked the Elephants. “Why are you running? What is the matter?”
The Elephants replied,” We do not know exactly why. We saw the Oxen running, so we ran after them we heard something about the earthquake.”
The Lion ask the Oxen “why are you running? What is the matter?” The Oxen said “we do not know either. We saw the Deer and the Pigs running, so we ran after them”
The lion asked the Deer and the Pigs, but they answer like wish, so finally he questioned the Rabbit. The Rabbit answer “I am none too sure, myself while I was sound asleep under a palm tree, the earth breaking up pierced my ears, so I was afraid and began to run.”
The clever Lion then led all the panicky animal to the palm tree, and show them the cracked palm fruit lying on the ground. The embarrassed animal gave the Rabbit a sound rebuke and went back to their own places.

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