MY FAVORITE BEDTIME STORIES
che chibala
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(, Nov. 25, 2018)
"Please grandma tell us a story before we go to bed," this is a book that will keep them asking for more. A collection of rarer folk stories for both adults that enjoy humor and children of all ages. Educationally humorous. This is how our parents and grandparents told us these stories around camp fires as we roasted fresh corn late in the evening.Meet Mr Rabbit who is one of the most cunning of animals, but sometimes he meet his match and is outwitted.Each story has a moral lesson that teaches how we should appreciate each other.Stories that will teach and entertain children as they ask for more. Enjoy these stories as you read them to the little ones.Why is a rabbit's tail short?At that time rabbit had a beautiful long fluffy tail that he was so proud of ..................................... So one day elephant went to rabbit’s house across the river to collect his money. As he crossed the river rabbit heard the great splashing of water and knew it was elephant crossing the ............................................“I have a secret place where I hide my money, last time I hid ten dollars there and now I have twenty dollars, can I hide it in the ......................................................Rabbit always saw the children of humans go to school every morning, one day he decided to call for a meeting with the other rabbits in the forest.’ Humans send their children to school where they learn how to count, read and write. I think school can be good for our children too” he told the gathered ......................“I have been very cruel to you for as long as I can remember, I apologize for killing and eating you. I have realized that what I was doing was bad and now I would like to make peace with you. I will never kill or eat any of you again. There is only one thing I need from you; each day you will line up and greet me as your elder, if you refuse my offer then there will be no peace,” cat told the assembled mice. The mice were very happy about this; they would now be free to do as they pleased. They all agreed to greet the cat each morning.He ran to the river where he found a stork. A stork is a bird with a longneck. He began pleading with the stork to help him. “Please help me or I will die.”“Who or what wants to kill you,” the stork asked in surprise for he could see no danger apart from hyena himself who could eat him at any moment.Now in a nearby tree was a brightly colored bird that had also come to drink water and it saw the poor ant, it felt pity. It broke off a twig and threw it near the ant, the ant quickly climbed on to the floating twig. The current of the river finally pushed the twig to the edges where there were reeds, here the ant managed to climb one of the reeds that was touching a nearby tree trunk and it went back home. He then thought to himself, “I will give these mountain goats more food than my goats so that they will not run back to the mountains.” He got the best food and gave it to the mountain goats and only gave very little to his goats.The king’s treasurer had just died and the king was so sad. Where would he find another honest man in the kingdom to take care of the kingdom’s treasury? He called his adviser and asked him how they would find an honest person for the job among such a dishonest citizenry.One day a leopard discovered the burrow and he was hungry, so he climbed up the tree to wait for any rabbit that would show up. When rabbit came back from his errands he saw leopard’s tail hanging down from the tree just above the burrow. He stood still for a few minutes thinking of what to do to save his family.“Tree is there any one in my house?” Rabbit asked and there was no reply from the tree.There came a time of great famine in the land and a lot of animals died of hunger. During this time lion would only leave bones for rabbit whenever he managed to kill an animal. Rabbit was not happy at all as he had a hard time eating the bones left by lion .....
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