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The Monkey and the Crocodile

The Monkey and the Crocodile

It was a beautiful lake surrounded by lush green grasses, beautiful trees, mountains
and sweetest, tastiest jamun trees. There lived a monkey on one of the jamun trees
located near the lake.
The lake also had a few crocodiles. There was one crocodile that used to collect the
jamun fruits from the lake that fall from the tree.
As the crocodile visits the jamun trees every day, it became friends with Monkey.
Crocodile and monkey met every day. The monkey helped crocodile by providing
more and fresh jamun fruits from the tree. Their relationship continued and they
became close pals.
One day, the monkey asked the crocodile to give some jamun fruits to his wife and
family as the fruits were more delicious. The crocodile agreed and took a lot of
jamun fruits to his wife.
His wife was so happy and surprised that she never ate so delicious fruits, so far.
She inquired her husband, where he got those fruits. The crocodile told her, his
friend, monkey who lives in a Jamun tree gave these for him.
The wife crocodile made a plan in her mind. She asked her husband, ‘Does your
friend eat these fruits every day?’ The crocodile replied yes. She added, ‘Oh my
goodness. These are the sweetest fruits we ever ate. Imagine how delicious the
monkey’s heart would be if he eat these fruits daily! I need the heart of your friend.
Can you please bring it for me?’
The crocodile was shocked to hear it from his wife. He replied, ‘But he is my close
friend. I can’t do this to him.’
The wife crocodile told him, ‘don’t worry. You bring him here. I will then take
care! Or else, you may try to push him down into the water if he doesn’t know
swimming!’
After a long time, the crocodile agreed to bring monkey to his wife.
The very next day, crocodile invited monkey to join them for lunch and asked for
his favorite foods. Monkey happily agreed to be the guest and but worried that the
monkey did not know how to swim in the lake.
Crocodile on thinking about monkey’s sorrow, pleased monkey and told him,
‘Don’t worry. I will carry you on my back and will take you back safely too!’
The monkey accepted and crocodile rode him to his home on his back on the
water. As they reached half way, the crocodile tried to push monkey down into the
water. However, monkey held the crocodile tightly and did not fall. Monkey got
suspicious about crocodile’s act and asked him to tell the truth.
Since crocodile believed him as his good friend, he told about the conversation and
the fight his wife had with him and he was taking monkey to eat his heart!
The intelligent monkey said, ‘Oh my dear friend, you should have told me this
earlier. I left my heart on one of the branches of the tree as I won’t carry it if I
travel long. If you take me back, I can give you my heart.’
Crocodile accepted and rode the monkey back to the lake. As they reached the tree
where the monkey lived, the monkey climbed quickly and escaped from the
crocodile.
He shouted at crocodile, ‘I thought you as a good friend, but you cheated me. I will
never come back and never be your friend.’
The crocodile understood his mistake and returned back home empty handed,
losing a good friend indeed

Terjemahan:
Itu adalah sebuah danau yang indah, dikelilingi oleh rumput hijau yang subur,poh
on-pohon yang indah,gunung dan POHON jamun manis, paling
lezat. Hiduplahmonyet di salah satu pohon jamun terletak di dekat Danau.
Danau ini juga memiliki beberapa buaya. Ada satu buaya yang digunakan untukm
engumpulkan buah-buahan jamun dari danau yang jatuh dari pohon.
Seperti buaya Mengunjungi pohon jamun setiap hari, itu menjadi teman denganmo
nyet. Buaya dan monyetbertemu setiap hari. Monyet membantu buaya denganmeny
ediakan lebih
banyak dan segar jamun buahdari pohon. Hubungan merekaberlanjut dan mereka
menjadi teman-teman dekat.
Suatu hari, monyet bertanya buaya untuk memberikan jamun beberapa buah-
buahan untuk istri dankeluarga sebagai buah yang lebih lezat. Buaya setuju danm
engambil banyak jamun buah-buahan kepadaistrinya.
Istri nya begitu bahagia dan terkejut bahwa ia tidak pernah makan buah-
buahanbegitu lezat, sejauh ini. Diabertanya suaminya, di mana ia mendapat buah-
buah itu.Buaya mengatakan dia, teman, monyet yangtinggal di sebuah pohon Jamu
nmemberikan ini untuknya.
istri
buaya membuat rencana dalam pikirannya. Dia bertanya kepada suaminya,‘Apaka
h teman Andamakan buah-
buahan ini setiap hari?’ Buaya menjawab ya. Iamenambahkan, ‘
Oh Ya ampun. Ini adalah buah-
buahan manis yang pernah kitamakan. Bayangkan bagaimana lezat jantung monye
t jika ia makan buah-buahan inisetiap
hari! Aku butuh jantung teman Anda. Dapat Anda silakan membawa itu bagisaya?
’
Buaya terkejut mendengar dari istrinya. Ia menjawab, ‘
tapi dia teman dekat saya.aku tidak dapatmelakukan ini kepadanya.’
istri buaya berkata kepadanya, ‘ jangan khawatir. Anda membawa dia di
sini. Sayamengambil
kendali!Atau, Anda dapat mencoba untuk mendorong dia ke air jika iatidak tahu k
olam!’
Setelah waktu yang lama, buaya sepakat untuk membawa monyet kepada istrinya.
Keesokan harinya, buaya diundang monyet untuk bergabung
dengan mereka untukmakan
siang danmeminta makanan favorit nya. Monyet bahagia setuju untukmenjadi tam
u tetapi khawatir bahwa monyettidak tahu bagaimana untuk berenangdi danau.
Buaya berpikir tentang kesedihan monyet, monyet dengan gembira dan berkatake
padanya, ‘
jangankhawatir. Aku akan membawa Anda di punggung saya danakan membawa
Anda kembali dengan aman !
Monyet diterima dan buaya naik dia ke rumahnya di punggungnya di atas air.Mer
eka mencapai setengahjalan, buaya berusaha menekan monyet ke
dalam air.Namun, monyet berpegangan erat dan tidak jatuh.Monyet curiga tentan
g undang-undang buaya dan memintanya untuk mengatakan kebenaran.
Sejak buaya percaya dia sebagai sahabat–
Nya, ia menceritakan percakapanbersama istrinya yang akan memakan hatinya
Monyet cerdas berkata, ‘ Oh teman ku sayang, Anda harus nya mengatakan
kepada saya sebelumnya. Akumeninggalkan hatiku di salah satu cabang-
cabangpohon karena saya tidak akan membawa itu jika sayamelakukan
perjalananpanjang. Jika Anda membawa saya kembali, saya dapat memberikan ha
ti saya.’
Buaya terima dan monyet
naik kembali ke danau. Mereka mencapai pohon tempattinggal monyet, monyetnai
k dengan cepat dan melarikan diri dari buaya.
Dia berteriak buaya, ‘
saya pikir Anda sebagai teman yang baik, tetapi Andamenipu saya. Saya tidak aka
npernah datang kembali dan tidak pernah menjaditeman Anda.’
Buaya memahami kesalahannya dan pulang dengan tangan kosong, ia kehilangan
teman baiknya.