The Monkey and the Carrots
Bedtime Stories with Rajesh Rajoo | Season 1 | Episode 2
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Once upon a time in the woods, near a village, there lived a little monkey named Mable.
He was a
very lazy monkey.
All day,
Mable would sit on a tree doing nothing.
Even when
his friends called him to play, he would not go with them.
"I'm
tired," he used to tell them "I'll come later..."
Soon, all
his friends left him.
Nobody
called him to play.
Because they
knew that Mable would not join them.
But when his
friends stopped talking to him, Mable felt so sad.
"Oh,
why don't my friends talk to me," he wondered "what did I do
wrong?"
He went to
his grandmother and told her everything.
"My
child, when you are lazy, nobody will like you," said his grandmother.
"But
what am I to do grandma?" asked Mable. "I don't like doing
anything..."
"Then,
Mable, your friends will not talk to you ever," said his grandma.
"Nooo,
I want them to talk to me..." said Mable and looked at his grandma sadly.
"Then,
stop being lazy and go play with them," replied his grandma.
So, Mable slowly
got down from the tree and went to where his friends were.
"Oh,
hello lazy monkey," called out his friends "are you looking for
another tree to sit on to do nothing?"
"I'm
not looking for another tree," said Mable angrily "and I'm not
lazy."
All the
monkeys laughed out loudly.
Mable became
even more angry. "Stop, I just came to play with you..."
"Oh,
come along then," said the monkeys happily "we're going to play
Banana Belly..."
"How do you play that?" asked Mable.
"All of
us go out, get bananas and come here," said one monkey.
"Then
we eat them and shake our bellies," said another monkey.
So, all the
monkeys left looking for bananas.
Mable did
not know where to go.
He started
walking towards the village.
Suddenly, he
heard someone coming behind him and hid up a tree.
It was a man
who going to the village, carrying a little sack on his head.
The man
stopped under the tree Mable was sitting on…
…sat down,
took out a banana from his small sack, ate it and lay down to rest.
Soon the man
was fast asleep.
Watching all
of this, Mable was happy.
“Yippee!” He
had found a sack of bananas.
Now all his
friends would be happy with him.
He slowly
got down from the tree and quietly dragged the sack into the woods to his
friends.
All of them
were back with lots of bananas.
When they
saw Mable bringing a sack of bananas, they were very surprised.
But when
they opened the sack, what did they see?
Carrots -
lots of fresh, orange carrots. There were no bananas in the sack.
Everybody
laughed.
"But I
saw the man taking out a banana from the sack and eating it," said Mable.
"Oh, you
should always sniff a sack and see if it's bananas inside...,” said a monkey.
“Because you
did not sniff it, you thought it was bananas…”
Everybody
laughed again.
"But
you can still play with us," said another monkey “we have lots of
bananas.”
So, they all
happily ate the bananas, laughing and chattering loudly.
And then one-by-one
they stood up and shook their bellies, laughing and chattering even more.
Mable joined
them, shaking his belly the hardest.
Everybody
was happy that Mable was not lazy any more.
And Mable was the happiest to have his friends back again, talking and playing with him.
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