One Little Piece Of Cake

One morning, minah went to visit her neighbour.

When she left the house, she had a plate in her hand. It
was filled with cakes. Minah’s friend had make some
cakes and she had given Minah some to take home.
On her way home, Minah was looking at the cakes
and smiling to her self. She was thinking how lucky she
was that her brother was at work. Now she could eat the
cake all by herself.
As Minah was climbing up the stairs to her house, a
piece of cake slipped from the plate. Quickly Minah tried
to stop it from falling. But alas , the whole plate of cakes
fell from her hand! Minah could not bear to lose one
piece of cake. But now she had lost everything!
 The Island Of Indonesia

Long, long ago, agiant lived in Malaya. He loved to

travel and had gone to places as far north as the
Himalaya, Russia and China. One day, the giant decided
to visit a distant land that it saw across the sea.
This land known today as Australia.
The giant thought that building aboat would take him
too long. So he pulled out huge chunks of rock from a
mountain and threw them into the southern. The larger
and heavier rocks fell closer to the Malay Peninsula,
while the smaller ones fell further away. Soon, there was
a line of rocks for him to step on. By making use of this,
the giant reached Australia.
In latter years, this rocks of many shapes and size
were given different names. Today , we know some of
them as the island of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Flores
and Timor!
 The Two Foolish Men
One day, Two man set out for the market, Each of them
carried a sack of rice in his back. They walk along quietly
for some distance.
Then one of them said ,”With the money that I get
from this sack of rice, I shall buy a goat. The goat will
have kids. When the kids are big, they will have more kids.
And I’ll have a large herd. Then I shall sell them and earn a
lot of money.”
“I shall do better than you,” said the other man. “I shall
buy a cow and within a few years I’ll have many cows
giving me a good supply of milk. I will be richer than you.”
“Oh realy?” said the first man.
“Of course!” said the other. And soon the two men
were fighting each other. Their clothes tore and the rice
spilled on the ground and was trampled upon. Finally
the two men had to return home with neither a goat nor a
cow. There was no rice left; there was not even a coin in
 The Magic Presents
When Sujak left his old uncle after working for him for a
year, he was given a stick and a pieces of cloth.
“Now Sujak,” said his uncle,”take good care of this cloth.
You just have to say, ‘Cloth lay the table’ and your meal will
be ready. This stick will always protect you. If you point the
stick at anything and say, ‘Start Stick’, it will be beating that
thing. It will stop if you say ‘Stop Stick’.”
On the way home, Sujak stoped under a tree. The magic
cloth served his meal. Then he lay down to sleep, all this
while, a thief had been watching Sujak. He was about to run
away with the cloth, when Sujak awoke. At once, Sujak
pointed the stick in the man’s direction and sent it after
him.
“Help! Stop! Stop! Call this thing off,” cried the thief. “ I
shall give you back your cloth.” Sujak stoped the stick and
the thief hurriedly returned the magic cloth. Then he ran
 A Visit To The Doctor

One day,Khatijah felt ill. “I shall go into town and visit

the doctor,” she told her husband, Sudirno. So she set off.
in her surprise, she saw a new doctor seated there.
“The other one ison leave,” she was told. The doctor took
out his file and began t talk to Khatijah. “What is your age,
please?” he asked her.
Khatijah was silent, for she could not remember! She
thought for a while. Finally, she exclaimed, “I think I know!
You see, I was fifteen years old whn I maried Sudirno and
he was twenty-five. Now my husband is fifty, which is twice
the number. That means I am twice fifteen. So, it makes me
thirty years old, doesn’t it doctor?” she asked in serious
tone.
But the doctor had already burst out laughing. Through
her simple calculation, Khatijah had made herself ten years
A Honey-bear Goes Fishing
There once lived a honey-bear in the jungles of
Sumatra. One morning it saw it’s fiend, a monkey, eating
some fresh fish.
“Monkey, may I have a little of the fish to taste?”
asked the honey bear.
“If you want to eat fish,” said the monkey, “you can
get plenty of them from that river over there.”
“But how do I catch them?” enquired the bear.
“That’s easy,”said the monkey smiling. “You just have
to put you tailin the river. When you feel something
tugging at your tail, pull it up. And there will be a fish at
the end of it.
At once, the bear hurried away to the river. It lowered
its tail at the side of the bank and waited. After a long
time it felt a sharp pain. “It must be a big fish,” Thought
the bear. It got up quickly, but there was no fish at the end
 Erman’s Dream
Once up on a time, a poor farmer called Erman had a
dream in which he heard a voice telling him to go and
stand at the foot of the bridge in Jakarta. It said that if he
did this good fortune awaited him.
Erman did not have any money for the trip so, he sold
his chickens and goat to raise the money he needed. He
arrived in Jakarta and for many days, he waited at the foot
of the bridge. But nothing happened. Finally, disappointed
and penniless, Erman decided to return home.
However, before he did, a man who had observed
Erman standin there daily , asked the reason. When Erman
Told him, he roared with laughter.
“You foolish man,” he said. “I too had such a dream
once. I was told I would find a chest of jewel if I went to a
particular spot in the country-side. But, was I stupid
enough….”
Ermandid not wait to hear anymore, for he knew where
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