One night, long ago, a tiger came down to a village. He was hungry and
looking for something to eat. He quietly walked around the village. Then
he heard a baby crying. "Hush. .. Stop crying. There is a tiger
outside," the mother said to her baby. The tiger was very surprised
to hear that. "What! How does she know that I am here?"
The mother was trying to calm the baby, but the baby cried more. She
was getting very tired. "If you don't stop crying, I'll throw you to the
tiger," said the mother. "Wow, I'm going to eat now," thought
the tiger.
He moved closer to the house. He sat down in front of the door, and opened his
mouth. He waited and waited, but nothing happened. The baby kept on crying.
"Look! Here comes the Got Gam," said the mother. At once,
the baby stopped crying. "What! The baby was not afraid of me. But it stopped
crying for Got Gam. Who is this Got Gam? He must be very scary."
Suddenly, the tiger became scared. So he walked off toward the barn.
At the same time, there was a thief hiding in the barn. The thief had come
to steal a cow. In the darkness the thief saw something moving. "Hmm,
here comes a cow," thought the thief. Quickly, he jumped on its back. It
was dark in the barn. The thief thought the tiger was a cow. "Ouch!
This must be the Got Gam," thought the tiger. He became scared and
started to run. The thief grabbed the tiger's neck tightly trying not
to fall. "This Got Gam is very powerful," thought the tiger.
"I'm running as fast as I can, and he is still on my back."
Now the tiger was getting more scared. He started to run even faster.
But the faster he ran the tighter the thief held on.
At last dawn came and it started to get light. The thief realized what had
happened. He was not on the back of a cow, but a tiger. "Oh
my goodness, I stole a tiger. I am going to die. What am I going to do?"
The thief wanted to jump off, but the tiger was running too fast. Ahead
he saw a low tree branch. When the tiger passed below it, the thief quickly
grabbed the branch. "Oh good! The Got Gam fell off," thought the tiger.
He then ran away as fast as he could into the forest. "Phew!
The tiger almost had me for lunch!" The thief wiped the sweat off
his forehead. After that the tiger never came back to the village. He was too
scared of the Got Gam. The thief decided never to steal again. He was too afraid
of the tiger.
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the ant and dove
An ant, walking by the river one day, said to himself,
"How nice and cool this water looks! I must drink some of it."
But as he began to drink, his foot slipped, and he fell in.
:Oh, somebody please help me, or I shall be drowned!" cried he.
A dove sitting in a tree that overhung the river heard him, and threw him a leaf.
"climb upon the leaf." said she,
"and you will float ashore."
T he ant climbed upon the leaf, and the wind blew it to the shore,
and he steeped upon dry land again.
"Good bye, kind Dove."
said he, as he ran home.
"you have saved my life, and I wish I could do something for you."
"Good bye" said the Dove,
"be careful not to fall in again."
A few days after this, when the Dove was busy buildingher nest,
the Ant saw a man just raising his gun to shoot her.
He ran quickly, and bit the man's the foot so hard, that he crid,
"Oh! oh!" and droped his gun.
This startled the Dove, and she flew away.
The man picked up his gun, the Dove came back to her nest.
"Thank you, my little friend." she said,
"You have saved my life."
and the little Ant jumped for joy, to think he had been able to help the kind Dove.