Once upon a time, in a forest, Mousedeer was looking for food. After a long time, he couldn’t find any fresh leaves to eat because the forest didn’t have many trees anymore because humans cleared many parts of the forest to have lots of land for plantation.
Then
finally he came to a lot of land which was planted with cucumbers. The farmer
who had the land wasnot around.
He thought,
“Wow, fresh cucumbers. The farmer was not here. What a lucky day for me.” So,
he ate as many cucumbers as he could eat and left after he was full.
When the
farmer came to see his plants, he was furious. “Something had eaten my
cucumbers. I have to keep my eyes on my plants but I cannot be here all the
time.”
Then he had
an idea to make a scarecrow that resembled him.
The next
day, Mousedeer came again to the cucumber plantations to eat cucumbers. At
first he was afraid and hid when he saw the scarecrow. He thought it had been the
farmer.
Once he
knew it was a scarecrow he came to it and kicked it so hard that it fell down.
He laughed and yelled at it, “You are not human. I am not afraid of you!”
The next
day, the farmer saw what happened to his scarecrow and decided to put on some
sticky liquid on it. The liquid was so sticky that animals who touched it would
be stuck.
Mousedeer
came again when he couldn’t find any food in the forest. At first he ignored
the sticky scarecrow and went on eating the cucumbers. When he had enough, he
kicked the scarecrow. Unfortunately his right front foot was stuck on the scarecrow.
He yelled,
“Let me go!” Then he kicked again using his other feet. Finally all his feet
were stuck on the scarecrow.
When he
felt he was helpless, he said to himself, “Humans have cleared the trees in our
forest and now one of them will have me prisoner. What horrible creatures,
humans are.”
ˈfjʊ ə .ri.əs furious
Laugh
lɑːf
Touch tʌtʃ
Fell fel
Felt felt
Forest ˈfɒr.ɪst
Creature ˈkriː.tʃə r
Finally faɪ.nə.li
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