Senin, 01 Oktober 2012
1. Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks
Maura, who like to be thought of as
the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one
she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks. The three
sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It
was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.
The following day, the queen invited
the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servant to give each
one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a
plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not
share it with him.
This Sheik Hakim’s act finally
convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her. “Without question, Hakim is
the most generous of you” she announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it is
Hakim I will marry”.
2. The Smartest Animal
Once there was a farmer from Laos.
Every morning and every evening, he ploughed his field with his buffalo.
One day, a tiger saw the farmer and
his buffalo working in the field. The tiger was very surprised to see a big
animal listening to a small animal. The tiger wanted to know more about the big
animal and the small animal.
After the man went home, the tiger
spoke to the buffalo; “you are so big and strong. Why do you do everything the
man tells you?” The buffalo answered; “oh, the man is very intelligent”.
The tiger asked; “can you tell me
how intelligent he is?”. “No, I can’t tell you”, said the buffalo; “but you can
ask him”
So the next day the tiger asked to
the man; “Can I see your intelligence?”. But the man answered; “it at home”.
“Can you go and get it?” asked the tiger. “Yes” said the man; “but I am afraid
you will kill my buffalo when I am gone. Can I tie you to a tree?”
After the man tied the tiger to the
tree, he didn’t go home to get his intelligence. He took his plough and hit the
tiger. Then he said; “Now you know about my intelligence even you haven’t seen
it.
3. Blind Listening
A stupid man was sent by his father
to sell salt. He first went to a mining area but nobody there wanted his salt.
When he returned home, his father told him that if he had helped the miners to
dig, they would have bought his salt.
The man next went to a house where a
wedding was taking place. There he dug a huge hole. This made the people angry
and they chased him away. When he returned home, his father told him that if he
had beaten a drum and danced instead, the people there would have bought salt
from him.
Then, he went to a village where
there happened to be a fire. Rushing to the place, he started drumming and
dancing, only to be thrown out by the people. His father told him that he
should have poured water on the fire instead, if he wanted to sell salt there.
In the next place he went to, a couple
were fighting with each other. The foolish man poured a bucketful of water on
them, again to be chased away. His father later told him that he should have
tried to settle the quarrel, in which case they would have bought salt from
him.
In the final event, the man saw two
bulls fighting with each other. He stepped in to stop the fight and was gored
to death by angry bulls.
4. Money Isn′t Everything
Donald, Daisy, Huey, Louie and Dewey
all went to visit Uncle Scrooge one cold autumn day. They knocked at the door
and had to wait a long time before all the bolts were undone. Even then Uncle
Scrooge looked very suspicious, as if they were Beagle Boys in disguise. The
old miser was very surprised to see them all.
"Well, well. I suppose you'd
better come in," he croaked at the door.
"Have you got a sore throat,
Great- Uncle Scrooge?" chirped Louie.
"Don't be cheeky, Louie!"
scolded Daisy.
"Stuff and nonsense!"
croaked
Uncle Scrooge. "I have got a
sore throat! The young lad's right."
"Sorry to hear that,
Uncle," said Donald sympathetically. "Should I send Dewey out to get
you some cough
drops?"
"No. They cost too much money
nowadays," complained the old miser. "I'd rather suffer the tickle in
my throat."
"You don't seem very happy,
Uncle Scrooge," soothed Daisy.
"Mind your own business!"
snapped Uncle Scrooge.
"Poor old Great-Uncle
Scrooge," chirped Dewey, who had jumped up to sit on his Great-Uncle's
knee.
"What do you mean—poor Great-
Uncle Scrooge!" chuckled Uncle Scrooge. "I've got more money than
Fort Knox."
"What I meant," explained
Dewey, "was that I had a sore throat too, and I hardly have any money. But
I bought some cough drops." With that Dewey pulled out his box of cough
drops and gave them to Uncle Scrooge.
"You can have my cough drops,
Uncle," smiled Dewey, "because they cured my sore throat."
Uncle Scrooge didn't know what to
say. But one great big tear rolled down his face.
"Poor Great-Uncle
Scrooge," echoed the triplets.
5. The Smartest Parrot
Once upon time, a man had a
wonderful parrot. There was no other parrot like it. The parrot could say every
word, except one word. The parrot would not say the name of the place where it
was born. The name of the place was Catano.
The man felt excited having the
smartest parrot but he could not understand why the parrot would not say
Catano. The man tried to teach the bird to say Catano however the bird kept not
saying the word.
At the first, the man was very nice
to the bird but then he got very angry. “You stupid bird!” pointed the man to
the parrot. “Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano! Or I will kill you” the
man said angrily. Although he tried hard to teach, the parrot would not say it.
Then the man got so angry and shouted to the bird over and over; “Say Catano or
I’ll kill you”. The bird kept not to say the word of Catano.
One day after he had been trying so
many times to make the bird say Catano, the man really got very angry. He could
not bear it. He picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house. There
were four old chickens for next dinner “You are as stupid as the chickens. Just
stay with them” Said the man angrily. Then he continued to humble; “You know, I
will cut the chicken for my meal. Next it will be your turn, I will eat you
too, stupid parrot”. After that he left the chicken house.
The next day, the man came back to
the chicken house. He opened the door and was very surprised. He could not
believe what he saw at the chicken house. There were three death chickens on
the floor. At the moment, the parrot was standing proudly and screaming at the
last old chicken; “Say Catano or I’ll kill you”.
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