THUMBELINA
There was once a
woman who wanted a small child but didn’t know where to get one. So she went to
a witch for help.
“A little child?”
said the witch, “that’s easy. Here’s a magic seed. Plant it in a flower pot and
see what happens!”
The woman thanked
the witch, paid her with a piece of silver, and went home to plant the magic
seed. As soon as it touched the soil, the seed grew into a tulip, whose flower
opened with a pop. In the middle of the flower sat a tiny girl.
“Why, the pretty
little thing is hardly as big as my thumb!” cried the woman. “I am going to
call her Thumbelina.”
The woman made Thumbelina
a bed from a walnut shell. Instead of going out, Thumbelina played on the
kitchen table. Her favorite game was sailing across a bowl of water in a
boat made from a tulip leaf. As she
sailed, she sang in a high, sweet voice.
One night, an old
toad got in through an open window and hopped down onto the kitchen table. “Just
the wife for my son!” the toad declared when it saw Thumbelina sleeping in her
tiny bed. The toad picked up the walnut shell and hopped out through the window
into the garden. At the bottom of the garden, there was a stream with muddy
banks, and that was where the old toad lived with her son. He was even damper
and uglier than his mother. When he saw the pretty little girl asleep in the
walnut shell, all he could say was, “Ribbik! Ribbik!”. “Not so loud!” whispered
the old toad. “If you wake her up, she’ll run away. We’ll put her on a
water-lily leaf in the middle of the stream so she won’t be able to escape. Then
we can clear out the best room for the wedding.”
In the morning,
when she woke up, Thumbelina was startled to find herself on a big green leaf
in the middle of a stream.
(Taken from : www.storytotell.com)
The Fly And The Bull
There was once a
little fly who thought he was very important. He felt proud of himself. One sunny
morning, he flew around looking for someone to talk to. He saw a bull grazing
in a field. He decided to fly down to talk to him.
The little flew
down and buzzed around the bull’s head. The bull did not bother him. He went on
chewing grrass.
The fly then
buzzed right inside the bull’s ear. The bull continued chewing grass. The fly
thought, “What a stupid animal!”
Now the fly
decided to land on one of the bull’s horns to make the bull notice him. He waited
for the bull to say something, but the bull kept quiet.
The fly then
shouted angrily, “Oh, Bull, if you find that I am too heavy for you, let me
know and I’ll fly away!”
The bull laughed
and said, “Little Fly, I don’t care if you stay or leave. You are sso tiny that
your weight does not make any difference to me, so please be quiet and leave me
alone.”
(Taken from : Angel’s moral story)