Narrative Text Fable: Tiger and Fox

 King of The Jungle

One day a tiger saw a fox walking alone. Then, he intended to attack the fox. When Tiger jumped on Fox, Fox cried out, "How dare you attack the king of the jungle?" Tiger looked at him in amazement. "Nonsense! You are not King!" "Certainly I am," replied the Fox. "All the animals run from me in terror! If you want proof, come with me." Fox went into the forest with tiger in heels. When they came to a herd of deer, the deer saw Tiger behind the Fox and ran in all direction. They came to a group of monkey, the monkey saw the tiger behind fox and they fled. Fox looked to tiger and said, "Do you need more proof than that? See how the animals flee at the first sight of me?" "I am surprised, but I've seen it with my own eyes. Forgive me attacking you, Great King." Tiger bowed low with great ceremony, he let the fox go.


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THE WOLF AND THE HOUSE DOG

There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful. He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it.
One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home. The Wolf would gladly have eaten him then and there, but the House Dog looked strong enough to leave his marks should he try it. So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance.
“You can be as well-fed as I am if you want to,” replied the Dog. “Leave the woods; there you live miserably. Why, you have to fight hard for every bite you get. Follow my example and you will get along beautifully.”
“What must I do?” asked the Wolf.
“Hardly anything,” answered the House Dog. “Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house. In return you will get tidbits of every kind, chicken bones, choice bits of meat, sugar, cake, and much more beside, not to speak of kind words and caresses.”
The Wolf had such a beautiful vision of his coming happiness that he almost wept. But just then he noticed that the hair on the Dog’s neck was worn and the skin was chafed.
“What is that on your neck?”
“Nothing at all,” replied the Dog.
“What! nothing!”
“Oh, just a trifle!”
“But please tell me.”
“Perhaps you see the mark of the collar to which my chain is fastened.”
“What! A chain!” cried the Wolf. “Don’t you go wherever you please?”
“Not always! But what’s the difference?” replied the Dog.
“All the difference in the world! I don’t care a rap for your feasts and I wouldn’t take all the tender young lambs in the world at that price.” And away ran the Wolf to the woods.

The Frog in the Well

There was a frog that lived in a shallow well.

” Look how well off I am here ! ” he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. ” I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my return. I can wallow to my heart’s content with only my head above water, or stroll ankle deep through soft mud. No crabs or tadpoles can compare with me. I am master of the water and lord of this shallow well, What more can a fellow ask ? Why don’t you come here more often to have a good time ? “

Before the turtle from the Eastern Ocean could get his left foot into the well, however, he caught his right calw on something. So he halted and stepped back then began to describe the ocean to the frog.

” It’s more than a thousand miles across and more than ten thousand feet deep. In ancient times there were floods nine years out of ten yet the water in the ocean never increased.

And later there were droughts seven years out of eight yet the water in the ocean never grew less. It has remained quite constant throughtout the ages. That is why I like to live in the Eastern Ocean. ”

Then the frog in the shallow well was silent and felt a little abashed.

Fabel

Fabel is a kind of children story which tells about animal life as seem to be human life. In the fabel the figure of animal can talk and do it the same activities as human.

In the modern fabel, man was inserted as a companion with the animal figure. The modern fabel shows the communication and interaction between man and animals which acted as a human.

The end of the Lutung

Lutung is a kind of black monkey in the West Java, Indonesia. One day, Lutung walked limping and shuffling on the sand. He has got an accident falling down from a tree. His body was exhaustedly weak. He was very starving unfortunately the nearest forest was very far from him. He pushed himself to finally come into a mouth of river. He drank a water greedily. Suddenly, he heard a voice of jungle cock, "Why do you look so pale, monkey?" asked the jungle cock, who was picking shrimp up from the river. "Please, fly me to the forest across this river ," asked Lutung. The jungle cock agreed to flew him to the nearest forest. Lutung held on the jungle cock paw. When they arrived at the forest, the Lutung did not want to held off his hand from jungle cock paw. Even though, he pulled out all of jungle cock feather. The jungle cock became unconsciousness.

"He shall be died", though Lutung. So, Lutung hid the jungle cock body in the wood and left him to find a fire in the forest.

The jungle cock woke up and found himself loose all his feather. He cried when the cow came by. "What is the matter with you? Who is very cruel animal pulling up all your feather?" asked cow curiously. The Jungle cock told the whole story. The cow became very angry when he heard what has Lutung done. "He must pay for it", said the cow. He ordered the jungle cock to hide in the shrub.

When Lutung got back with a fire he could find the jungle cock. "Do you see where is the dead body of jungle cock I left here?" asked Lutung. "The jungle cock has not been died, he swam to the sea", said cow.

The Lutung asked cow to bring him to the rock in the centre of the sea. Lutung though that the jungle cock might be hiding in that rock. the cow nicely agreed to send Lutung to the rock. The cow swam and brought the Lutung to the rock where he asked for. Without any suspicious the lutung jump up to the rock happily. The cow left him alone when he was far enough from the cow he said "I hope you will be died eat by the giant octopus". Lutung realised what happened done to himself, he sat on the top of rock and cried.

When the time passed by, Lutung heard a voice from the sea "Why are you cry" asked the turtle. " And I wonder why you may get here". " I come here by a boat, but my boat twisted up and finally I come to this miserable place" answered Lutung. The turtle felt sorry for him and agreed to bring the Lutung back to the beach.

When the they arrived on the beach Lutung said "How can you go swim so fast?". "It because my special feet", answered turtle. "May I see your special feet?" asked Lutung. Lutung turned turtle over his body. However, when the turtle has turned over, the Lutung immediately left him and went on to find a lion the King of the Jungle. He tough that only a lion who could pick out the delicious turtle meat from his hard shell.

Turtle cried and shouted for help. "What is happened with you?" asked a mouse. Turtle told the whole sad happened to himself. The mouse become very angry. He and other mice dug sand below the turtle body. They hoped when the water up and high the turtle shall turn over easily.

Meanwhile, they were waiting for Lutung arrival. The mice covered the turtle body with the body of themselves. And they danced and made a poem sound "Let us be happy .. with the funny Lutung .. who has cheated the King of The Jungle... who though there was a delicious turtle but ..". Lutung who came with the lion become very surprised. He wonder where was the turtle. After heard the poem of mice the lion become very angry because he felt foolish to be cheated.

"Where is the turtle you told me?" asked the lion furiously. The lion caught the lutung with his sharp claw and brought him with his mouth to the jungle.