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A deer, a tortoise, a crow and a mouse are worried about the hunter’s traps. Will they outwit him?
The Four Friends
Retold by BookBox
Far from any town,
there was a forest,
in which all the animals
and birds
lived together peacefully.
The forest was home
to four inseparable friends,
a deer, a tortoise,
a crow and a mouse.
Every evening
they met to discuss
the events of the day.
But one day
the deer was very frightened.
“Hunters are laying traps
everywhere.
Is there anything we can do
to escape?”
“Yes there is,”
the crow cried out,
“as our friend
the mouse knows!”
The crow began telling
what he had seen.
“Just the other day,
I saw the most amazing thing.
A flock of doves was trapped
in a hunter’s net,
their wings flapping wildly.
Then, suddenly, all together,
the doves picked up the net
in their beaks,
and flew into the sky.
And where did they go?
Straight to our friend
the mouse!
With his sharp teeth,
he tore the net to pieces.
Free at last,
the doves flew away.
They were very grateful
to our friend.”
After the story ended,
the deer went
in search of water.
Meanwhile,
the three friends started nibbling
on the fruits, shrubs
and leaves of the forest.
They chatted late
into the night,
still waiting for the deer
to return.
But the deer
was nowhere to be seen,
and the friends began to worry.
At dawn,
while the others called out
to the deer,
the crow flew in every direction
looking for her.
In a clearing,
he spotted the deer
with her foot caught in a net.
“Don’t worry,”
he told her calmly,
“we’ll think of something.”
The crow
rushed back to his friends.
The tortoise had an idea,
“Mouse,
hop quickly on the crow’s back.”
And they flew off to rescue
the deer.
Without wasting time,
the mouse bit through the net.
Just then, the anxious tortoise
reached the spot.
“Why did you come here?
If the hunter returns,
you’ll never escape,”
the deer exclaimed.
And the hunter did return!
Hearing his footsteps,
all of them ran away,
but the tortoise was too slow.
The hunter picked him up
and tied him to a stick.
“Oh no! Because of me,
poor tortoise is in trouble,”
said the deer.
Suddenly, the deer leaped up
and ran to the pond
near the path.
She lay down absolutely still,
while the crow pecked at her.
When the hunter
dropped the tortoise
and picked up the deer,
the mouse quickly cut the cords
and released the tortoise.
While the tortoise
slipped into the water,
the deer darted off
and the crow simply flew away.
The hunter trembled with fear.
He had never seen an animal
come back to life.
Thinking
that the forest was haunted,
he ran for his life!
The four friends
came back home
and were happy
to be together again.
Narration: Anuradha Majumdar
Illustrations: Jyothi Fucile
Music: Holger Jetter
Animation: BookBox
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