CUNNING DONKEY
```Among lots of folk tales cunning donkey is an interesting tale. Once upon a time there lived a man named Siyadhoris. He lived by selling salt. He had a donkey. Every week he took a sack of salt to the fair on the donkey’s back and sold it there.
On the way to the fair he had to cross a small stream. One day the donkey slipped accidentally and fell in to the stream with the sack of salt.
A lot of salt 🧂 got washed away by the water 💦. When the donkey got up it found its load was 🧺 lighter. It did it as a habit so that the load of the sack become lighter.
Siyadhoris understood the donkey’s trick. So he thought of a plan to teach a lesson to the donkey.
On the next day he loaded the sack on the donkey’s back to take it to the fair.When the donkey came to the stream he fell in to it as usual.
But when the donkey got out of the water 💧 its load was not lighter but very heavier. Siyadhoris had put a sack of cotton instead of salt.The donkey took the heavy load to the fair with difficulty.
~```The donkey learnt a good lesson and never fell in to the stream again........
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Written by:
K.A.H. Nethmina
Grade - 9B
Christ Church Boys' College - Baddegama
