A Greedy Deer

A deer and an elk were on the edge of the forest. They were very hungry and looking
for the fruits. Apparently, there were no fruits that they could pick because at the edge
of the forest there were only a few trees. A few minutes later, the deer asked the elk to
go into the forest and took the foods, because there were big trees that always had so
many fruits.

When they were in the forest, they found a lot of trees with heavy fruits. However, the
fruit have not been ripe yet, so it could not be consumed. The deer were very hungry so
he asked the elk to eat without worry. The elk refused and forbade the deer to consume
the raw fruit. The elk said that the raw fruit could cause stomach ache.

Nevertheless, he still ate those raw fruit and ignored the advice from the elk. He thought
that the fruit was a healthy meal even though it was still raw. He consumed all of the
raw fruits and after that he felt very satisfied.

Suddenly, the monkey and the giraffe come with many fruits that were ripe and tasted
so sweet. They said that there were no ripe fruits in this forest, so they looked for the
food in another forest. The deer and the elk were very happy because they were given
the delicious food by monkey and giraffe. However, when the deer wanted to eat the
fruits, he felt the soreness in his stomach.

He said Owh, my stomach is so hurt, my stomach is hurt. Then the elk replied you
have stomach ache because you did not obey my advice, you continued to eat the raw
fruit while I have warned you not to eat it.

The deer finally eat a very bitter medicine to stop the pain, meanwhile, the elk, the
monkey, and the giraffe ate the delicious food together.












Kancil yang Tamak


Kancil dan rusa sedang berada di tepi hutan. Mereka sangat lapar dan sedang mencari
buah-buahan. Tampaknya, tidak ada buah yang bisa mereka petik karena di tepi hutan
hanya terdapat sedikit pepohonan. Beberapa menit kemudian, kancil mengajak rusa
untuk mencari makanan ke dalam hutan karena di dalam hutan terdapat pohon yang
besar-besar dan tentu saja banyak buah matang yang bisa diambil.

Ketika mereka berada di dalam hutan, mereka menemukan banyak sekali pohon dengan
buah yang lebat. Namun, buah-buahan tersebut belum matang sehingga tidak dapat
dikonsumsi. Kancil sangat lapar sehingga ia mengajak rusa untuk mengkonsumsi buah
tersebut. Ajakannya ditolak oleh rusa dan rusa melarangnya untuk mengkonsumsi buah
mentah tersebut. Rusa mengatakan bahwa buah mentah dapat menyebabkan sakit perut.

Kendati demikian, ia tetap memakan buah tersebut dan tidak memperdulikan nasehat
dari rusa. Ia berpikir bahwa buah merupakan makanan yang sehat meskipun belum
matang. Ia menghabiskan berbagai macam buah-buahan mentah dan setelah itu ia
merasa sangat kenyang.

Tiba-tiba, monyet dan jerapah datang membawa berbagai macam buah-buahan yang
sudah matang dan rasanya begitu manis. Mereka mengatakan bahwa tidak ada buah-
buahan yang matang di hutan ini, sehingga mereka mencari makanan di hutan lain.
Kancil dan rusa sangat senang karena mereka diberikan makanan lezat oleh monyet dan
jerapah. Namun, ketika akan memakan buah-buahan matang tersebut, kancil merasa
bahwa perutnya begitu sakit.
Ia berkata owh, perutku sakit, aku tidak mampu menahannya, perutku sakit sekali.
Kemudian rusa menjawab perutmu sakit karena kau tidak mematuhi nasehatku, kau
terus memakan buah mentah sementara aku telah memperingatkanmu untuk tidak
memakannya.
Kancil akhirnya memakan obat yang rasanya sangat pahit untuk menghilangkan rasa
sakitnya. Sementara itu, rusa, monyet, dan jerapah memakan makanan lezat bersama-
sama.









The Freedom of Ants


Ants are very small animals and often got the oppression by the animals which are
greater than them. One of the animals that colonize the ants was grasshoppers. Every
day they ordered the ants to find food and collect it. When the food was collected, then
a locust took the food and put it in the nest. Every day the ants were given the job and
had to work without stopping.

Many ants had died because of the exhaustion at work and that condition always
continued. In the ants colony, there were two ants which were very brave and always
plotted a rebellion. The two ants named Riandi and Anggara. They invited others to
subvert the power possessed by the locusts. However, no ant dared to unite and
overthrew the power of locusts. Most ants thought that the condition was a destiny and a
willing of God which should be received.

Riandi and Anggara never gave up and kept trying to get a lot of members in order to
destroy the colony owned by the locusts. One day, the kings son died because of
running the food out. Each food was given entirely to the locust, so the young king died
by starvation. This happening realized the ants that they had to fight and led their own
nation.

Anggara Riandi and serve as the leader of the rebellion. Ant Riandi is very expert in
making weapons while Anggara is an expert in creating ant war strategy. Several weeks
later, Riandi has managed to make hundreds of weapons without being noticed by the
locusts. Meanwhile, Anggara and all ants have agreed that they will attack the
headquarters of the grasshopper when the evening. Before the army ants supplied by
arms, they soon moved to the headquarters of locusts through existing tunnels
underground.

When they arrived, Anggara immediately gave orders for the ants were divided into 10
groups and dispersed to every corner. They then came out of the tunnel through the
holes dug. After all the soldiers out of the tunnel, then they fired weapons into the
bodies of each grasshopper. In less than ten seconds, many locusts are dying due to
exposure to the toxins produced by these weapons. The attack carried out continuously
for one night, and the next day, the ants have won the fight. They returned home with a
sense of joy because it had been free from colonization by locusts. Meanwhile, Riandi
and Anggara appointed as the new king. Ants lived happily and peacefully because of
their brave.



Kemerdekaan Semut

Semut adalah hewan yang sangat kecil dan seringkali mendapatkan penindasan dari
hewan-hewan yang lebih besar. Salah satu hewan yang menjajah semut adalah belalang.
Setiap hari mereka memerintahkan semut untuk mencari makanan dan
mengumpulkannya. Ketika makanan sudah terkumpul, maka belalang mengambil
makanan tersebut dan menaruhnya di sarang mereka. Setiap hari semut diberikan tugas
tersebut dan harus bekerja tanpa berhenti.

Sudah banyak semut yang mati karena kelelahan bekerja namun keadaan ini terus
berlanjut. Dari keseluruhan semut tersebut, ada dua ekor semut yang sangat berani dan
selalu merencanakan pemberontakan. Dua semut tersebut bernama Riandi dan Anggara.
Mereka mengajak semut yang lain untuk menumbangkan kekuasaan yang dimiliki oleh
belalang. Namun, tidak ada yang berani untuk bersatu dan menumbangkan kekuasaan
belalang. Kebanyakan semut berpikir bahwa penjajahan yang sedang terjadi merupakan
takdir dan merupakan kehendak dari Tuhan yang harus mereka terima.

Riandi dan Anggara tidak pernah menyerah dan terus berusaha untuk mendapatkan
banyak teman dalam rangka menghancurkan koloni yang dimiliki oleh belalang. Pada
suatu hari, anak raja semut meninggal dunia karena kehabisan makanan. Makanan yang
ada sudah diberikan seluruhnya pada belalang sehingga anak sang raja meninggal
karena kelaparan. Peristiwa tersebut menyadarkan para semut bahwa mereka harus
melawan dan memimpin bangsa mereka sendiri.

Riandi dan Anggara dijadikan sebagai pemimpin pemberontakan. Riandi adalah semut
yang sangat ahli dalam membuat senjata sementara Anggara adalah semut yang ahli
dalam menciptakan strategi perang. Beberapa minggu kemudian, Riandi telah berhasil
membuat ratusan senjata tanpa diketahui oleh belalang. Sementara itu, Anggara dan
semua semut telah sepakat bahwa mereka akan menyerang markas besar belalang ketika
malam hari. Sebelum tentara semut dibekali oleh senjata, mereka segera bergerak ke
markas belalang melalui terowongan-terowongan yang ada di bawah tanah.

Ketika mereka sampai, Anggara segera memberikan perintah agar semut dibagi menjadi
10 kelompok dan berpencar ke setiap sudut. Mereka kemudian keluar dari terowongan
tersebut lewat lubang-lubang yang digali. Setelah semua tentara keluar dari terowongan,
maka mereka menembakkan senjata tersebut ke tubuh-tubuh setiap belalang. Dalam
waktu kurang dari sepuluh detik, sudah banyak belalang yang mati karena terkena racun
yang dihasilkan oleh senjata tersebut. Penyerangan dilakukan secara terus-menerus
selama satu malam, dan pada esok hari, semut telah memenangkan pertarungan. Mereka
kembali ke rumah dengan rasa gembira karena telah terbebas dari penjajahan yang
dilakukan oleh belalang. Sementara itu, Riandi dan Anggara diangkat sebagai raja yang
baru. Semut hidup bahagia dan damai karena tindakan mereka yang berani.
The Fox and the Crow

A crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the eye and nose
of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit," said the fox, "then you are the prettiest
singer within my scent and sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and
somewhere else, that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make
him drop the cheese and sing. But this is not what happened to this particular crow in
this particular case.

"They say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said the crow, having carefully
removed the cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be
nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright vest, and
they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique.

"I am sure you are," said the fox, who was neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly. "I
recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most famed and talented of all birds,
and I fain would hear you tell about yourself, but I am hungry and must go."

"Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly, "and share my lunch with me." Whereupon he
tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A
ship that sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he said. "Bars may come and bars
may go, but crow bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the map maker. Last,
but never least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers, geometricians, and
scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any two points," he concluded
arrogantly.

"Oh, every two points, I am sure," said the fox. "And thank you for the lion's share of
what I know you could not spare." And with this he trotted away into the woods, his
appetite appeased, leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the tree.








The Wolf and the Dog

Once there was a wolf who was nearly dead with hunger. He was very thin, so that the
outline of his bones could be seen clearly beneath his thinning coat of hair. With hardly
enough energy to walk, the wolf had little hope of finding food. As he lay beneath a
large tree, a dog out for a walk noticed him. Seeing how thin and hungry-looking the
wolf was, the dog felt sorry for him and said, "You are in terrible shape! You look as if
you haven't eaten for many days."

"You're right," said the wolf. "I haven't eaten because you and your friends are doing
such a good job of guarding the sheep. Now I am so weak that I have little hope of
finding food. I think I will surely die."

Then why not join us? Asked the dog. "I work regularly and I eat regularly. You could
do the same. I will arrange it. You can help me and the other dogs guard the sheep. In
that way, we won't have to worry about your stealing the sheep any more and you won't
have to worry about going hungry any more. It's a good deal for both of us."

The wolf thought it over for a few minutes and then decided that the dog was right. So
they went off together toward the ranch house where the dog lived. But, as they were
walking, the wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the dog's neck was very thin.
He was curious about this, for the dog had such a beautiful coat every where else.
Finally, he asked the dog about it.

"Oh, don't worry about that," said the dog. "It's the place where the collar rubs on my
neck when my master chains me up at night."

"Chained up!" cried the wolf, "Do you mean that you are chained up at night? If I come
to live with you, will I be chained up at night too?"

That's right," answered the dog. "But, You'll get used to it soon enough. I hardly think
about it anymore."

"But, if I am chained up, then I won't be able to walk when I want to take a walk or to
run where I want to run," the wolf said. "If I come to live with you, I won't be free
anymore." After saying this, the wolf turned and ran away.
"The dog called after the wolf, saying, "Wait! Come back! I may not be able to do
everything I want to do, but I'm healthy, well-fed, and I have a warm place to sleep.
You are too worried about keeping alive to enjoy life. I'm more free than you are."


The Fox and The Cat


One day a cat and a fox were having a conversation. The fox, who was a conceited
creature, boasted how clever she was. 'Why, I know at least a hundred tricks to get away
from our mutual enemies, the dogs,' she said.

'I know only one trick to get away from dogs,' said the cat. 'You should teach me some
of yours!'

'Well, maybe some day, when I have the time, I may teach you a few of the simpler
ones,' replied the fox airily.

Just then they heard the barking of a pack of dogs in the distance. The barking grew
louder and louder - the dogs were coming in their direction! At once the cat ran to the
nearest tree and climbed into its branches, well out of reach of any dog. 'This is the trick
I told you about, the only one I know,' she called down to the fox. 'Which one of your
hundred tricks are you going to use?'

The fox sat silently under the tree, wondering which trick she should use. Before she
could make up her mind, the dogs arrived. They fell upon the fox and tore her to pieces.

A single plan that works is better than a hundred doubtful plans.









The Lion and The Mouse

Once, as a lion lay sleeping in his den, a naughty little mouse ran up his tail, and onto
his back and up his mane and danced and jumped on his head, so that the lion woke up.

lion angry and mouseThe lion grabbed the mouse and, holding him in his large claws,
roared in anger. 'How dare you wake me up! Don't you know that I am King of the
Beasts? Anyone who disturbs my rest deserves to die! I shall kill you and eat you!'

The terrified mouse, shaking and trembling, begged the lion to let him go. 'Please don't
eat me Your Majesty! I did not mean to wake you, it was a mistake. I was only playing.
Please let me go - and I promise I will be your friend forever. Who knows but one day I
could save your life?'

The lion looked at the tiny mouse and laughed. 'You save my life? What an absurd
idea!' he said scornfully. 'But you have made me laugh, and put me into a good mood
again, so I shall let you go.' And the lion opened his claws and let the mouse go free.

'Oh thank you, your majesty,' squeaked the mouse, and scurried away as fast as he
could.

A few days later the lion was caught in a hunter's snare. Struggle as he might, he
couldn't break free and became even more entangled in the net of ropes. He let out a
roar of anger that shook the forest. Every animal heard it, including the tiny mouse.