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The wishing golden apple tree.

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The Wishing Golden Apple Tree     One day there was a little girl. Her name was LILY. Her parents were died. And she lived with her grandmother. But Her grandmother was blind.  One day she went in to the Jungle to find something to eat. A few moments later, she met a Grandfather.  And that grandfather asked  "Who are you??Where are you going?".  And lily said  "I’m lily. I came to the Jungle to find something to eat" The grandfather said  "But why ? Where are your parents?" Lily said " my parents...They were Died"  "with whom do you live now?"  "I live with my Grandmother,but she is blind"  Grandfather was sorry and he asked Lily to follow him. A few moments later Lily saw a *Golden Apple tree* "This is a *Wishing Golden Apple tree *" The grand father said. " You can wish anything here and it will become true. You can wish to have food for lifetime. So that you do not want to wander in the jungle to find food....

CUNNING DONKEY

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           ```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.        ...

AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENT

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     One a day, we were coming home from Kandy.It was around 11.00 p.m. Our driver was driving the van very fast. Suddenly, he braked and the vehicle stopped with a loud noise. Everybody was afraid and got down from the vehicle soon. We saw our vehicle has crashed with a wild boar. The animal had died on the spot.  We removed it from the road. Then we saw another problem. One front tyre had a puncture. We had to change the tyre. Surrounding was very dark. We heard only the sounds of owls. We did not want to change the tyre near mid night but we had no any other option. So,  everybody got together to do this. Within one hour we could change the tyre. And we started our journey around 01.00 a.m.We reached home around 5.00 a.m. It was an unforgettable incident in my little life.  Moral of the story:- *This story is an example of how speeding can lead to many accidents* _____________________________________ Written by:  W.Sadeesha Rashmika  Grade:- 09...

THE MYSTREY OF THE VOICE OF A HAWK

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My  brother  and  I  were  happy  to be back  home  after  school  vacation.  This  time  too, My brother Nadun in my  uncle’s  house,  had  informed  us  that he  would  be  coming to my house.  Tomorrow is the starting day of the school holiday.  We are going to send kites tomorrow.                          ‘‘Brother, let’s make kites now” my brother said  We slept with kites and hoping to get up next day morning. When we woke up that morning, we had our breakfast quickly and we ran to the paddy field to send the kite.   The kite flew high into the sky. We gave the kite another thread and then the kite went up speedily. After a while, a big hawk roamed in the sky. After a while, the hawk hit the kite. The kite was gone missing.  “Brother, kite is broken “I said.  We continued al...

THE GOAT AND THE FOX

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Once upon a time there lived a fox and a goat. Fox was very deceitful and it was very greedy. Goat was very innocent but it was very intelligent.  The fox wanted to eat goat’s meat. Fox thought about a trap to catch the goat One day the fox  saw the goat eating grass and made a trap to catch the goat But the goat got to know the trap and jumped over the trap to escape from it.  Next day the fox was walking through the forest, forgetting the trap he made. He fell into his own trap. Finally only the goat was there to help the fox and they became friends    Moral: Don’t try to trap others. One day you will fall into your own trap.                     The end. Written by: Nuran Nimsara Grade 9E Christ Church Boys' College - Baddegama

STORY IN THE BEACH

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   One day, I was sitting on the beach looking at the distant ships. I was enjoying the sound of the waves. Also I was enjoying the cool wind.  Suddenly I heard a sound “Help Help”  I looked around. But I did not see anything. Again I heard the same sound. I stood up and looked everywhere.    Then I saw an old tourist was shouting. He was drowning.  I looked around to get some help. Unfortunately, there was no one.   So, I decided to help him.          I walked quickly towards the tourist. I had to swim a little distance. I grabbed his hand and dragged him slowly to the beach.    After lying on the beach for few minutes, he got up and thanked me a lot. Also he gave me an unbelievable gift. It was a free ticket to Germany. It was one of my dreams to go to abroad. But I rejected it because our responsibility is to protect our foreign visitors. And even I didn’t expect something in return. Then all the tourists...

THE KIDNAPPED PRINCESS

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Once upon a time there was a handsome prince. His name was Charles. One day, he saw a beautiful girl walking in the garden of the palace. She is very kind, innocent, pretty, kind, intelligent and poor girl.  The prince saw the girl and went after her to find her home.       While he was following her he saw that the girl was entering an isolated house in a jungle with no one inside. He followed the girl and suddenly he saw a witch. She trapped the girl in a room. That punishment was given to her for visiting the palace without permission.     After a while the witch came out from the house and the prince makes it a chance to help the girl. She was lying on the floor and her arms and legs were tied suddenly the prince saw the necklace around her neck. The royal seal was there in that pendant.                  He remembered that necklace was same to his mother’s necklace. He fought with the witch an...

CONFIDANT CONSPIRATOR

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     Once upon a time there was a Muslim man named Nazir. He was a trader and he had a lot of properties.   Once night, Nazir saw a strange dream. He dreamed of going to Mecca for praying.        Next day, he got up at early in the morning and he reflected his dream. Immediately, on that day he thought of going to Mecca to pray. But he knew, it was a long journey. So he planned everything step by step.       First he thought of earning money and he sold all of his properties. Secondly he prepared the meals and goods, to eat while going to Mecca. Then he bought a small house to live and thought of saving half of his money to use after coming back from Mecca. Next, he was finding a loyal friend to keep his money safe and he remembered his poor friend William. Nazir went to meet William and explained his situation. William agreed to take care of money until Nazir returns home.      Nazir started his j...