Text Short Story Telling The Monkey and The Crocodille
Once upon a
time, a clever monkey lived in a tree that bore juicy, red rose apples. He was
very happy. One fine day, a crocodile swam up to that tree and told the monkey
that he had traveled a long distance and was in search of food as he was very
hungry. The kind monkey offered him a few rose apples. The crocodile enjoyed
them very much and asked the monkey whether he could come again for some more
fruit. The generous monkey happily agreed.
The crocodile
returned the next day. And the next. And the next one after that. Soon the two
became very good friends. They discussed their lives, their friends and family,
like all friends do. The crocodile told the monkey that he had a wife and that
they lived on the other side of the river. So the kind monkey offered him some
extra rose apples to take home to his wife. The crocodile’s wife loved the rose
apples and made her husband promise to get her some every day.
Meanwhile, the
friendship between the monkey and the crocodile deepened as they spent more and
more time together. The crocodile’s wife started getting jealous. She wanted to
put an end to this friendship. So she pretended that she could not believe that
her husband could be friends with a monkey. Her husband tried to convince her
that he and the monkey shared a true friendship. The crocodile’s wife thought
to herself that if the monkey lived on a diet of rose monkeys, his flesh would
be very sweet. So she asked the crocodile to invite the monkey to their house.
The crocodile
was not happy about this. He tried to make the excuse that it would be
difficult to get the monkey across the river. But his wife was determined to
eat the monkey’s flesh. So she thought of a plan. One day, she pretended to be
very ill and told the crocodile that the doctor said that she would only
recover if she ate a monkey’s heart. If her husband wanted to save her life, he
must bring her his friend’s heart.
The crocodile
was aghast. He was in a dilemma. On the one hand, he loved his friend. On the
other, he could not possibly let his wife die. The crocodile’s wife threatened
him saying that if he did not get her the monkey’s heart, she would surely die.
So the
crocodile went to the rose apple tree and invited the monkey to come home to
meet his wife. He told the monkey that he could ride across the river on the
crocodile’s back. The monkey happily agreed. As they reached the middle of the
river, the crocodile began to sink. The frightened monkey asked him why he was
doing that. The crocodile explained that he would have to kill the monkey to
save his wife’s life. The clever monkey told him that he would gladly give up
his heart to save the life of the crocodile’s wife, but he had left his heart
behind in the rose apple tree. He asked the crocodile to make haste and turn
back so that the monkey could go get his heart from the apple tree.
