MOUSE DEER STEAL CUCUMBERS

In the morning, as usually the farmer went to his field. But how he started to see one of area of cucumber trees was damage.

“Wow… who had done like his and why not all the cucumbers fruit was eaten and then eat the other fruits. Hmmm……!! Musk sees away to know who had done like this.”

Then the farmer made a mannequin of wood which was look someone. After the mannequin was made. He took that in the middle his field, and he gave latex on all the body of the wood mannequin.

Not so far from his field the farmer so an animal. That was looking at him to know what he did. Eyes of the animal looked at him to know details everything that he did. That’s indicated that the animal have enough get intelligence which have a popular name “A mouse deer.”

After the farmer went away. The mouse deer walked near the mannequin that he made. “hmm…he thought that  I didn’t know his idea. This mannequin has a meaning for me!” he whispered. “What can the stupid mannequin do?”

“This cucumber field will be mine. I can enjoy with all and satisfy. Hai mannequin, catch me up if you can I”. “You are just a death thing!” mocked the mouse deer.

“This is exactly time to come down you. In order to know, who must have this field!” shouted the mouse deer. While kicked his forelegs to the mannequin, but what happened?

His forelegs stick at the mannequin, and soon he kicks his hind legs, but his survival has no result. In the fact both of his legs have stick mannequin at the wood. Not so long, the farmer came and the mouse deer as an egg on a born.

“I come here because I just feel thirsty. May be in this surrounding area would give me a little water, just to lost my thirsty!” said the mouse deer.

Hearing the deer which wasn’t honest, the farmer approached him.

“You know, that honesty is very important. If you don’t honest so you will be a contemptible creature” said the farmer. As an old man I had learned more. Once is to show that you had lied and arrogant, value at the entire useful thing, which make your life respected!”

“The proof that your lips wet. It means that impossible if you are thirsty. At the mannequin stick the cucumber seed, it means that you had stepped on the cucumber fruits. And the both of your legs which stick there, because you know that is just mannequin, not a farmer and you want to come down it!”

The mouse deer humbled because the farmer knew what he had down.

“I’m not angry or judge you and now I let you to go away, but don’t do bad acts again”. The mouse deer was very happy.

 So, since the time, the field of the farmer had not damaged again, because the mouse deer didn’t steal the cucumber fruits again, even that the deer would have the farmer to kept his field.

Taken from: Dogeng anak-anak dwi bahasa.