THE PIED PIPER AND RATS
Once there was a town called Hamelin. The only thing wrong was it was full of rats. They destroyed people’s farms, houses and food supplies. The people went to the mayor to solve the problem.
One day, a strange man came to town. The stranger offered to
get rid off the rats. In return, the mayor would give him money.
The Pied Piper was a strange-looking man. He was tall and
always wore pointed hat, and a long, flowing cape. He played a long, shiny
flute. The piper began to play in the town square.
Rats came running from everywhere. They came out from the
houses and the shops. The Pied Piper played up and down the streets. Everywhere
he went, the rats followed him. The Pied Piper led the rats to the river. The
rats all jumped into the river and drowned.
The people cheered. They were happy to be rid of the rats.
But the mayor changed his mind about the money. He refused to give any money at
all to the Pied Piper. “Give me the money your promised,” he said. “If you
don’t, I’ll play a different tune you will not like,” he warned. But the mayor
still refused. The Pied Piper picked up his flute and began to play a new tune.
Once the flute was played, all the children in the town were
like being hypnotized. These children followed the Pied Piper wherever he was
playing the flute. When The Pied Piper reached the river bank, he stopped
walking, but the children were still walking toward the river.
Fear of their safety, the mayor begged The Pied Piper to let
the children go and paid the money he promised. All of sudden the children
awoke and their parents rushed to get their beloved children.
The Pied Piper was happy to get the money and the mayor finally learned a lesson from this.
HORSE AND DONKEY
Horse and donkey come from
the same family. Horse and donkey are almost the same in shape but they are trully
different. In size, horse is heavier
than donkey becouse horse body is bigger than donkey. On feeling, Donkey is
more sensitive than horse becouse it has very distinctive feeling.
Donkey has visible longer ears while horse tends to have longger faces. Donkey
has smaller hoofs than horse. Donkey’s back is fatter than horse’s. Donkey is
harder to starle and will consider the risk before it decides to run or stick around. Horse has softer and
more flowing hair than donkey. Donkey is wellknown as the most stupid
animals in the world while horse is the fatest running animals. Horse and
donkey are tame animals. They can help human in doing their activities.
NARRATIVE
DODI INDRA, S.S
Read these wonderful stories
1. Tangkuban Perahu or Sangkuriang
Dayang Sumbi was exiled in the jungle,
because she was unmarried but pregnant. She gave a birth to a baby boy and
named him Sangkuriang .
One day he went hunting with his dog, si
Tumang. In the bush he saw a pig, Wayungyang. He wanted to shoot Wayungyang but
si Tumang hindered him. He was angry at it and killed it, and then took its
heart home. When he told that it was si Tumang’s heart, she was very angry and
hit Sang Kuriang’s head with a spoon. And he ran away and left his mother to
the east. He did not know himself and forgot his name. He was about 16 years of
age.
After along time Sang Kuriang came back to
the jungle where his mother lived. She looked younger than her age, so Sang
Kuriang fell in love with her. “Will you marry me?’’ one day he asked her. But
Dayang Sumbi refused because she recognized that he was her son. He insisted to
marry her and Dayang Sumbi asked two marriage settlements. One, he had to
dammed Citarum river, and two, had to make a boat in one night
Sang Kuriang almost finished his work but
Dayang Sumbi cheated him. He was angry and kicked the boat. The boat fell
upside down on the peak of mountain. It was known Tangkuban Perahu, at the
northern of Bandung, West Java.
2, The Poor Roasters
A Story From The Farm Yard Two roosters were fighting fiercely to be the king of the farm yard. One finally gained advantage and the other surrendered.
The loosing rooster slunk away and hid itself in a quiet corner. The winner flew up to a high wall, flapped its wings and crowed its victory, as loud as it could.
Suddenly, an eagle came sailing through the air and carried it off, with its talons. The loosing rooster immediately came out of its corner and ruled the farm yard from then on.
3. The Rabbit and The Turtle
One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could
run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so slow.
Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle
challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted
the challenge. The fox was the umpire of the race. As the race began, the
rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought.
The rabbit got to the halfway point and
could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and
take a short nap. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by step.
He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.
However, the rabbit slept longer than he
had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere! He went at
full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him.
