กลุ่มที่ 1 นิทานเรื่อง The Bat and the Weasels (กลุ่มของทรายกับเพื่อนๆค่ะ)
A bat that fell onto the ground and was caught by a weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and was then set free. Shortly afterwards, the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another weasel, whom he also asked not to eat him. The weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bird, and escaped a second time.
One hot summer’s day a fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which has been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing to quench my thirst,” quote he.Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success
Once when a Lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaw to swallow him.Pardon, O King,” cried the little Mouse; forgive me this time, I shall never forget it. Who knows what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?” The lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go.Sometime after the lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters, who desired to carry him alive to the king, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on.Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the king of the beasts.
One humid day in the summer, a lion and a goat were dying of thirst. Once they found a puddle, they began fighting for the water. They fought and became really tired.After a battle, they laid down for a rest. And then the lion saw vultures were flying circle around in the sky. “I think we better compromise and share the water or we keep fighting until one loses and becomes their food.” said the lion. The goat agreed with the lion, and at the end they share water to drink.
A man walked into the forest and asked the trees to provide him a handle for his axe, The Trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash tree. No sooner had the man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly cut down the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, sad at the destruction of his friend said, to a neighboring cedar, “The first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might still have kept our own privileges and have stood for ages.”
Moo escapes from a farm. Moo is hungry. He does not want to eat grass. Moo is looking for McDonald’s. Moo loves cheeseburgers. Moo wants a double cheeseburger and French fries. He saw an advertisement on a billboard. He dreams about it every night.
The Hares, persecuted by the other beasts and afraid even of their own shadows, had a council to decide what to do.The conclusion they came to was to die rather than live on with this shame. So, they went to a pond, determined to drown themselves.
But when they were just about to jump, some Frogs who had been sitting on a water lily, startled by the noise they made, rushed to the deep water for safety. “Look,” cried a Hare, “there are creatures who are even afraid of us, so things are not so bad, after all. We don’t need to die any more.”
