The Young and Field Literary Readers Part 12
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Then he cried out to the poor frightened beasts to stop.
"What are you saying?" he asked.
"We said the earth is falling in," answered the elephants.
"What makes you think so?" asked the lion.
"The tigers told us," said the elephants.
"What makes the tigers think so?"
"The bears told us," said the tigers.
"What makes the bears think so?"
"The buffaloes told us," said the bears.
"Why do the buffaloes think so?"
"The deer told us," said the buffaloes.
"Why do the deer think so?"
"The monkeys told us so," said the deer.
"And how did the monkeys know?"
"The jackals said so," said the monkeys.
"And how did the jackals know?"
"The hares said it was so," said the jackals.
"And how did the hares know?"
One of the hares then said that another hare told him, and the other hare said that another told him, and so it went on until at last they came to the first little hare.
"Little hare," said the lion, "why did you say that the earth was falling in?"
"I saw it," said the little hare.
"Where?" asked the lion.
"I saw it there, under that big coconut tree," said the little hare.
"Come and show me," said the lion.
"O, no, no!" said the little hare. "I am so frightened. I couldn't go."
"Jump on my back," said the lion.
The little hare at last jumped up on the lion's back, and the lion took her back to the big tree.
Just then another coconut fell with a great noise among the leaves.
"O, run, run!" cried the timid hare. "There is that dreadful thing again!"
"Stop and look," said the lion.
As the hare could not get down from the lion's back, she had to stop and look.
"Now what do you think it is?" asked the lion.
"I think it must be a coconut," said the little hare.
"Then I think you had better go and tell the other beasts," said the lion.
So the little hare told the other beasts that the earth was not falling in, after all. It was a coconut that was falling.
THE SHOE
(A man once left his shoe in the woods. The beasts found it.
They had never seen anything like it before, so they came together and began to talk about it.)
BEAR. It must be the husk or the outside of some fruit.
ALL THE BIRDS. O, just hear him!
ALL THE BEASTS. O, just hear him!
WOLF. No, that is not it. It is some kind of nest. See! Here is the hole at the top, for the bird to go into, and here is the place for the eggs and the young birds.
BIRDS. O, just hear him!
BEAR. Just hear him talk!
GOAT. No, you are both wrong. It is the root of some plant.
(He showed them the shoe string hanging at the side.)
See this long, fine root. Surely it is a root!
BIRDS. O, just hear him talk!
BEASTS. Just hear him!
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