Daw Saw Yin - Selected stories to read to preschoolers

Rabbit's cleverness

In a forest, a tiger and an elephant decided to have a fight. Before the tiger could fight, he called his animals and said, " My friends, tomorrow morning, I and the elephant will have a fight. When I shout, you all shout in unison with me. When I win and eat the elephant's meat, I will feed you all. "

The next morning, the elephants came and they fought. When the elephants roared, only one could roar and could not roar for long. When the tiger roared, the wild animals gathered around and shouted, so the elephant lost. Then the tiger said to the elephant, "Look, my voice is loud and I can roar for a long time. You have lost. When will I eat your meat?" The elephant asked.

"Please give me peace, my friend. When the next seven days are up, come and eat with me here," they said, and then they left. They wanted to test whether they could.

The king consulted with wise sages about the matter several times and then ordered the chief magistrates to organize a beauty contest involving the four rich men.

In the beauty contest, four wealthy people must each make and wear clothes using their wealth.

A wealthy man who had become wealthy through farming began to wear various kinds of bread made from glutinous rice grown on his farm as clothing, hanging from his body.

The rich in gold and silver also wear clothes made of gold and silver. The rich in diamonds and rubies also wear clothes decorated with diamonds and rubies. The rich in cloth also wears the best clothes, sewn and embroidered.

The rich man, who had become wealthy through farming, was covered in fried rice and rice cakes, but his children were ashamed to see their father. They were strictly forbidden to go out in such clothes. The rich man, with his imagination, told his children that he was wearing them and went out to win the beauty contest.

When they arrived at the beauty pageant venue, the audience was laughing with joy. The three rich men were embarrassed and their faces were pale, but the rich man who owned the island of Farming did not lose his composure.

Soon the king arrived at the competition pavilion, ordered the four rich men to enter a pre-built room in the pavilion, and sealed the door, saying that on the seventh day, he would announce to the nation who was the most beautiful.

The four rich men lived together in that sealed room, and even when it was time to eat, no one came to feed them. Then the farmer took out the bread he had brought with him and ate it. The other three rich men also drooled when they saw the farmer eating. They became very hungry and begged the farmer for food, but they did not get anything, so they exchanged the food they had brought with them.

After a day or two, two or three days of exchanging goods, the three rich men each had only a little bit of goods left. The farmer, on the other hand, had no trouble with food, and his goods increased overnight.

On the seventh day, the king himself and his entourage marched to the pavilion where the contest was to be held. The large audience was also there to hear the king's verdict.

Soon the king opened the sealed room in the pavilion, and the farmer was the most beautiful.

The king was delighted and gave advice that farmers in his country should be given special privileges. Even if they were not rich in gold, silver, stones, iron, and rubies, they could live well without being inferior if they had rice. They should work hard on the Kai Kyun farm and try to extract gold from the soil. He also gave prizes to the farmer who won the beauty contest.