The
Magic Box
Once upon a
time, there was a poor farmer who dug up a big box in his field. He took it
home and showed it to his wife. His wife cleaned it and kept it in their house.
One day, she dropped an apple into it. Immediately the box began to fill up
with apples. No matter how many were taken out, others took their place. So the
farmer and his wife sold the apples and were able to live quite comfortably.
Then the
farmer dropped a coin into the box. At once, the apples disappeared and the box
began to fill itself with coins. Everyday the farmer and his wife collected
hundreds and hundreds of coins from the box. Soon they became very rich.
Now the
farmer’s grandfather lived with the couple. He has not very strong and he could
not go out to work. So the farmer asked the old man to help him take the money
out of the box. When his grandfather became tired and wanted to rest, the
farmer shouted at him, “Why are you lazy? Why can’t you work harder?”
The old man
did not say anything but he continued working until he fell inside the box and
died. At once the money disappeared and the box began to fill up with dead
grand fathers.
The farmer had
to pull them out and bury them. To do this, he had to spend all the money he
had collected. When he had used up all the money, the box broke and the farmer
was just as poor as he was before.
TEXT 2
Miss
Crow has stolen a big piece of cheese, and flew away on to a branch to enjoy
it. A sly fox, who wanted the cheese for himself, came up and spoke politely to
her.
“Oh, Miss Crow, how
beautiful you are! What a lovely beak, what a lovely feathers you have! What
pretty eyes! If only you could sing, you would be the most beautiful bird in
the world.
Very pleased to hear all of
this about herself, Miss Crow gave a loud croak to show that she could sing. Of
course, the moment she opened her beak, the cheese fell down, and Mr. Fox ran
away with it, laughing loudly.
TEXT 3
Once
upon a time, there was a fisherman named Batara Guru Sahala who lived in Batak
land. One day, he caught a fish that could talk. The fish begged Sahala to set
it free and he did accordingly.
As soon as the fish was free, it
changed into a woman. She was so beautiful that Sahala fell in love with her at
once. He asked her to marry him. The woman agreed to marry Sahala, but in one
condition: he had to keep the secret that she was once a fish. Sahala promised
her that he would not tell anyone about it.
They were happily married and
had two daughters. Every morning Sahala went out fishing. His daughters would
bring him his lunch. One day, however, instead of bringing the food to their
father, the two girls ate it.
When Sahala knew what they had
done with the meal, he got very angry. He yelled at
them saying, ”You behaved exactly like the daughters of a fish.”
The girls did
not understand what their father meant. They went home and asked their mother
about it. Their mother was very annoyed. Although Sahala apologized to her
later, she would not forgive him for breaking his promise.
From that moment on, Sahala took
a lesson that he should not have broken his own promise. Sahala was so
grief-striker that he decided to wander for the rest of his life.
TEXT 4
Once
upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt
and uncle because her parents had died.
One day she heard her uncle and
aunt talking about living Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to
go to America and they didn’t have money to take Snow White with them.
Snow White didn’t want her uncle
and aunt to do this so she decided to run away. The next day she ran away from
home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast .She ran away into the
woods. She was very tired and hungry. Then she saw a little cottage. She
knocked but no one answered. So, she went inside and fell asleep.
Meanwhile the seven dwarfs were
coming home from work. They went inside there they found Snow White sleeping.
Then Snow White woke up. She saw dwarfs, one of the dwarfs asked: “What is your
name?” Snow White answered, “My name is Snow White.”
The dwarf said, “If you wish,
you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh, could I? Thank you.” Then
Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story about. Snow White and the seven
dwarfs lived happily ever.
STUDY HARD AND KEEP ON TRYING
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