tale 26 the
Olympics of the animals
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The Olympics of the animals
The sun had just come up, the first birds began
to sing and the monkey was still sleeping deeply on a branch fork.
Nevertheless, when the turmoil around him grew more violent, it tore him out
of dreams. His face betrayed a slight irritation, since he still had
beautiful images in front of his mind's eyes. "He had just been chosen
as the winner of all and his head crowned with laurels."
The dream had been so real that he wondered what
he was doing here on the branch fork. The expression in his face turned into
a smile again. "I'm the best!" He only needed spectators who would
applaud. Therefore, the monkey went down to the elephant and pushed him in
the side so it would give the signal with his trumpet for a big meeting of
the animals.
It wasn't long before the forest, prairie, air,
and water animals hurried from all directions to receive the good or bad
news. There were different expressions on their faces.
Then the monkey climbed on the small rock in the
middle of the square and raised his hands. Slowly, silence conquered the
place and everybody waited to listen. "Today, it is the big day of the
Animal Olympics!" One observing could see that nobody really knew what
the Olympics should be. "I'm the best!" - continued the monkey.
"I will compete against everyone in their own ability. I swim better
than the fish, fly faster than the bird and jump farther than the frog.”
The animals' amazement grew. What was going on in
the head of this monkey? "I'm going to compete against the frog first."
He climbed down from the rock, took a stick and drew a line in the loose
ground. Then he took off and hopped. Everyone was amazed that the monkey
could make such jumps. Now the green animal stood behind the line, made a
mediocre leap and landed on the other side of the square in the bushes, where
no one could see it anymore. "Disqualified!" - cried the monkey.
"The jury decided that the frog would be disqualified because it had
left the runway." The animals did not understand what the words
"disqualify and jury" meant, it was clear to them that the frog had
jumped a lot farther. Nevertheless, they were not surprised when the monkey
put some plant wreath (laurel) on his head.
The mood was actually getting better, the whole
thing started to please the animals. The next competitor was the zebra. The
monkey and the ungulate stood behind the start line. "Ready and
go!" The relative of the horses had already run to the finish and back
when the monkey had only reached the middle. Hard breathing, he crossed the
finish line, turned and thought that he had been so fast that the zebra
couldn't follow him. "I'm really fit today."
The fish was already waiting for its opponent on
the bank. The monkey threw himself into the floods and started beating its
arms wildly. Fearing that he would drown, the turtle swam under him and
brought the drenched back to the shore. "This is cheating!" - he
complained. "The armored animal prevented me from swimming!" He
coughed and spat so much water that nobody could understand what he was saying.
Then he ran up a high rock. The animals were
getting scared for him. The giant spider quickly spun a net under him, for
the case the monkey thought of jumping down. "I fly faster than the
birds can." And with the speed of a falling stone, he approached the
ground, exactly into the elastic net of the spider, which always catapulted
him back into the air with the same force. Every time he went up, he shouted,
"I'm flying! Just look how I’m flying!"
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Samstag, 14. März 2020
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