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The Rescue of the Animals
Once upon a time, the mother cow got stuck in the river. And then the baby calf leaned down to take one drink out of the river, and she got her drink, but then she fell into the river. The mother cow grabbed the baby calf, and held onto her, and they both climbed out of the river.
They got back to the farmyard. The horse was sitting down but he got up and ran out to meet them. And then a lion came.
And then some people came up to the river to catch some fish but they didn’t catch any.
Then the farmer ran out to meet them, together with his pet bear. But the bear got loose and started running around, so all the animals ran after him to try to catch him, including the sheep, the horse, the dog and the rooster. But then the bear stopped running and sat down in a cool spot under a tree. At this point, the sheep finally caught up to the bear, and then the bear bit him. Then the baby calf chased them all into the forest. And then the farmer sat down and put his baseball shoes on, and went out to the baseball field. But the baseball game was all over, and all the people had gone home.
That night, the farmer stayed up all night worrying. “What if one of my animals dies?” he thought. “The other animals would be all right, but that one would be dead.” But none of the farm animals died. They just slept in the night. But the farmer died. And the other animals never died, even without the farmer to take care of them.
Then some wicked people came. And they killed the horse. (This is different, because he was killed by other people. But the animals never died by themselves.) But the little horse, the one who had come running with the sheep to catch the bear earlier, grew up and now there was a new horse in the farmyard. But then, the wicked people even shot that horse. Then they shot all the other farmyard animals except for the sheep.
And the sheep got really angry. The next time the wicked people came back to the farmyard to try to kill the sheep, the sheep ran after them. But the wicked people didn’t just stand there, they ran away from the sheep. And the sheep just ran after them saying, "I'm the meanest animal in the farmyard and I can catch those wicked people." And then sheep caught up with the wicked people just as they were sitting down to rest, and the sheep shot those wicked people with his special gun, and then the sheep ran to the bear and all the other farm animals and the sheep made alive again with his magic wand, because the sheep was also a fairy. Then the sheep went to the farmer and also made him come alive again. And as soon as the farmer became alive, his first thought was to try to run away from those wicked people, until the sheep told the farmer that he had already shot all the wicked people with his gun.
And then the horse, who had been sitting on the rock, started running away off the rock and told the sheep that there was danger. And the sheep went to find out what kind of danger there was. But what kind of danger did the sheep find there? He found a lion.
And he ran away, and as he was running he turned his head and yelled at the horse, “It’s a lion!”
Meanwhile the mother cow and the baby calf sat on a nice warm rock looking at a tree, which was the apple tree that the wicked people had planted. Then the horse got stuck in a net which some other wicked people had put there to catch animals so they could eat them. But the bear took his sharp teeth and tore the net open. Then the horse was able to run away.
Meanwhile, the baby calf wasn't watching for danger and she was walking down a path in the jungle. And while she was doing this, a fierce lion came after her. The baby calf remembered that her mother had told her that the jungle was dangerous. And the baby calf ran away from the jungle, through the woods, and back to the farmyard.
Then an airplane flew over and landed in the farmyard. And the door flew open and out ran three horses. And then the airplane flew to a grassy field to get some more oil and fly over the farmyard. But it didn’t stay there. It started up the propellers again and flew over the farmyard. But it didn’t get far because it didn’t have any gas in the gas container. So the pilot put new gas in the gas container, but before he could start flying again another person caught him.
The End
The Three Little Giraffes
Once upon a time there were three little giraffes.
The first giraffe built a home in a haystack.
The second giraffe built a home in a leaf pile.
The third giraffe built a home in a wood pile.
But little did they know a bunch of pirates were looking for giraffes to make some soup. The pirates found the neighborhood where the giraffes lived.
They went to the house of the first giraffe, but the first giraffe had a frying pan, and he hit all the pirates on the head with his frying pan. So they went to the house of the second giraffe. But the next giraffe was strong, and he beat them up. So they went to the house of the third giraffe. But the third giraffe was too fast, and he ran away.
That night, the pirates went back to their camp, and they talked around their campfire. The pirates decided to plan a surprise attack on the giraffes. They spent all night planning the attack. But, the 3 giraffes were hiding in the woods next to the pirate’s the campfire, and the giraffes heard everything. So then the giraffe’s made their own plan, and when the pirates attacked them the next morning, they were ready, and they outwitted the pirates.
The next night, the giraffes decided to make another plan to outwit the pirates. They met in the wood pile house. But this time, the pirates were listening outside the window, and the pirates heard everything the giraffes were planning. And then the pirates made their own plans. The next morning the pirates outwitted the giraffes, and they would have captured the giraffes, and had their giraffe soup, but the pirates forgot one thing--they forgot to plan for the fact that the third giraffe was really fast. And that one little fact meant that their plan failed..
The next night, who would listen to whose plans? The giraffes decided it was too dangerous to try to listen to the pirate’s making their plans, so they didn’t even try. But they also knew that the pirates would try to listen to their plans. So they decided to make their plans late at night, after the pirates had already gone to sleep.
The first giraffe said, "We have been very luck so far. The pirates aren’t afraid of giraffes, so they haven’t been using their wea--"
"Don't say that word," said the second giraffe. "The pirates might still be listening. Maybe they somehow found out we are having our meeting at a different time. And if they are listening, you could be giving them ideas to use their you-know-what. So don't say the word. Just say 'You-know-what.' "
They then asked the third giraffe if he knew what the "you-know-what" was, and he said no. So they huddled close together and they whispered very quietly, "It means their weapons."
And it was true. The pirates hadn’t been using their weapons. Pirates have lots of knives and guns and swords, which they usually use when they fight other pirates. But so far, the pirates hadn’t been using any weapons against the giraffes. They had just been trying to grab the giraffes with their bare hands.
"Anyway," continued the first giraffe, "the pirates aren’t taking us seriously yet. So they do not think it is necessary to use their 'you-know-what.' But when they find out how strong we really are, they will use their 'you-know-what.' So we will have to kill them first."
"Wait," said the second giraffe. "We need to make a better plan than that. If we’re going to kill the pirates, we need to think carefully about what our strengths are. Now, when the pirates first came to my house, I used my super strength to beat them up. What did you two do?”
The first giraffe said, "I hit them on the head with my frying pan."
The third giraffe said, " I ran so fast they couldn't catch me. Okay, so that’s the plan. Now let's go to sleep."
"No," said the first giraffe. "We have to plan it more than that."
"Okay," said the second giraffe, "I will beat them all up, while you," he pointed to the first giraffe, "will sneak up to the pirate captain and hit him on the head with your pan. Try to hit him so hard that you kill him. Once their captain is dead, the pirates won’t have any leader, and they will probably just give up and go home. But, if they don’t, and if they try to attack you after you kill their captain, then the third giraffe can use his super-speed to rescue you from the rest of the pirates."
So, the next morning the giraffes fought the pirates, just as they had planned. It was all working out fine at first. The first giraffe managed to get behind the pirate captain, and hit him on the head with the frying pan, and killed him. But the pirates didn’t give up. Instead they became furious, and they all attacked the first giraffe.
Now, at this point, the third giraffe was supposed to zoom in with his super-speed, and save the first giraffe. But the third giraffe was so busy fighting the pirates that he didn’t notice the first giraffe was in trouble. So the first giraffe had to escape from the pirates all by himself. The first giraffe jumped into the river to escape.
The second giraffe noticed that the first giraffe was in trouble and he stopped fighting just long enough to yell a warning to the third giraffe. Then the second giraffe gasped, "They're using their weapons."
And it was true. The pirates were so mad about the death of their captain that now they were taking out all of their knives, and guns and swords.
By now the first giraffe had been picked up by the river current and was being quickly swept away. He tried to swim back to the shore, but he could not. The current was too strong. The third giraffe was running alongside the river, trying to help him. Then the third giraffe was shot by a pirate gun and fell to the ground dead.
The second giraffe saw what was happening, and he wanted to help the first giraffe. But he wasn’t fast like the third giraffe, so he couldn’t run away from the pirates, and there were too many pirates for him to fight, so he couldn’t get away. And so the first giraffe got washed away down the river.
The second giraffe was so strong that he was able to beat up all the pirates. And eventually the pirates went back to their ship to sleep for the night. But the second giraffe couldn’t sleep. He kept thinking about his friends: the third giraffe, who was dead, and the second giraffe, who had been washed away down the river.
Meanwhile the first giraffe was still stuck in the current. He was swimming for his life, and trying to get out of the river. Then he saw a deadly whirlpool ahead. He knew that if he didn’t get out of the river, the whirlpool would suck him down to the bottom of the river and kill him. He began to swim with all his might against the current. When he saw it was no use, he began to yell for help. Then a storm began. Lightning hit a tree and it fell down so that some of the tree was in the river, and some of the tree was anchored on land. The first giraffe grabbed the tree, and used the tree to pull himself to the shore. Once he got onto dry land, he was so exhausted that he went to sleep right there.
The next day the first giraffe woke up and saw a jungle. And he saw a lion. He ran away, and the lion ran after him. As the giraffe and the lion ran, more and more lions came out of the jungle and joined in the chase. Soon the first giraffe was surrounded by lions. Then, from the trees a monkey reached down and pulled the first giraffe up to safety. Then the monkey stuck his tongue out at the lions. Then the monkey said, "Hello."
And the first giraffe said, "Hello," back.
Then the monkey said, "Let's go have some tea."
And the first giraffe said, "Let's". So they went to have some tea.
Meanwhile the second giraffe was having a terrible time fighting the pirates. Since he had started fighting that morning, he had only killed nine pirates. There were still 10,027 pirates left.
All of a sudden, all the pirates charged him at once. And from behind one of them grabbed him around his neck and held a knife to his throat. The second giraffe heard the voice behind him say, "So far, we only have one giraffe for our soup. You will be the next. Walk or you will die."
The second giraffe was brought into the pirates’ boat. The pirates led him down the stairs, down a long hallway, and then they jumped down a hole. Then another long hallway and down another hole. Then the pirates jumped out, and they left the second giraffe in the hole. The second giraffe couldn’t jump as high as the pirates, so he couldn’t jump out. So he was trapped in the hole.
Then the walls started closing in. But the second giraffe was strong. He held back the walls and then, by pushing his arms and legs against the walls, was able to climb up to the top and get out of the hole. Then he escaped from the pirate ship, jumped into the ocean, and swam back to the land.
Meanwhile, back in the jungle, the monkey and the first giraffe were having tea. The first giraffe told the monkey his story. "To get back to your home," the monkey said, "all you have to do is follow the river back to your house. I will come with you."
So they followed the river and they went all the way back to the second giraffe's house. Then all three--the first giraffe, the second giraffe, and the monkey-- went out to fight the pirates. While the first and second giraffe fought the pirates, the monkey went up into the trees and threw coconuts at the pirates. The pirates couldn't climb the trees, so they were beaten by the monkey. After this, the pirates decided to give up. They sailed away, and they never bothered the giraffes ever again.
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