tale 13 don’t sing with the loudest Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Don’t sing with the loudest! Once upon a time, there was a wonderful meadow with many beautiful flowers and colourful birds. But the most magnificent was the singing of the birds. All the animals of the forest and of other forests came to listen to the wonderful music of those birds. When they sang, everybody remained silent, stopped to eat and even the youngest animals didn’t cry after their mothers but listened to the wonderful songs. Nevertheless, one day while the birds were singing and many animals listening, suddenly loud roars could be heard in the distance. As the tumult came nearer, it turned out that it was elephants. And as they entered the meadow, they tramped down all the beautiful flowers while they used their snout as a kind of trumpet and all the birds and other animals fled and took refuge in the nearest trees. The horde of elephants devastated the meadow and made a terrible noise. The frightened birds and other animals sat in the trees and wondered what would remain of their beautiful meadow. But not all birds were so sad about it, there was one which wanted to participate and be part of the strong. So, it flew out above the elephants and began to sing. Of course, no one could hear it, but it glided over the heads of the elephants, sang with all the power of its lungs, and felt great because it thought it belonged to them. It laughed about the other birds and animals and called them all kind of ugly names, because it felt strong. After some days of ravaging, the elephants disappeared as suddenly as they had come. However, the little bird having shouted with them sat in the middle of the meadow and still yelled trying to imitate the big intruders. The other birds and small animals stood around it, but they couldn’t recognize its voice, it had changed. Slowly, the flowers came out of the ground again and the birds began to sing like before. Only the traitor could not regain its original voice. Continue with tale 14!

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