THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

BY NUR DANISHA BINTI ROBBY SEPTSYAROS

SK PEKAN KINARUT , PAPAR

It was a beautiful lake surrounded by lush green grasses, beautiful trees , mountains and
sweetest , tastiest jamun trees. There lived a monkey on one of the jamun trees located near
the lake.
The lake also had a few crocodiles. There was one crocodile that use to collect the jamun
fruits from the lake that fall from the tree.
As the crocodile visits the jamun trees every day, it became friends with monkey. Crocodile
and monkey met every day. The monkey helped crocodile by providing more and fresh
jamun fruits from the tree. Their relationship continued and they became close pals. One day,
the monkey asked the crocodile to given some jamun fruits to his wife and family as the fruits
were more delicious. The crocodile agreed and took a lot of jamun fruits to his wife. His wife
was so happy and surprised that she never ate so delicious fruit so far. So inquired her
husband, where he got those fruits. The crocodile told her, his friend, monkey who live in a
Jamun tree gave these for him.
The wife crocodile made a plan in her mind. She asked her husband, ‘Does your friend eat
these fruits every day?’ , the crocodile replied yes. She added, “Oh my goodness. These are
the sweetest fruits we ever ate. Imagine how delicious the monkey’s heart would be if he eats
these fruits daily! I need the heart of your friend. Can you please bring it for me?’
The crocodile was shocked to hear it from his wife. He replied, ‘but he is my close friend. I
can’t do this to him.’ The wife crocodile told him, ‘Don’t worry. You bring him here. I will
then take care! Or else, you may try to push him down into the water if he doesn’t know
swimming!’.
After a long time, the crocodile agreed to bring monkey to his wife. The very next day,
crocodile invited monkey to join them for lunch and asked for his favorite foods. Monkey
happily agreed to be the guest and worried that the monkey did not know how to swim in the
lake.
Crocodile on thinking about monkey’s sorrow, pleased monkey and told him, ‘Don’t worry. I
will carry you on my back and will take you back safely too!’.
The monkey accepted and crocodile rose him to his home on his back on the water. As they
reached half way, the crocodile tried to pish monkey down into the water. However, monkey
held the crocodile tightly and did not fall. Monkey got suspicious about crocodile’s act and
asked him to tell the truth.
Since crocodile believed him as his good friend, he talked about the conversation and the
fight his wife with him and he was taking monkey to eat his heart!
The intelligent monkey said, ‘Oh my dear friend, you should have told me earlier. I left my
heart on the one of the branches of the trees as I won’t carry it if I travel long. If you take me
back , I can give you, my heart’.
Crocodile accepted and rode the monkey back to the lake. As they reached the tree where the
monkey lived, the monkey climbed quickly and escaped from the crocodile.
He shouted at crocodile, ‘I thought you as a good friend, but you cheated me. I will never
come back and never be your friend.’ The crocodile understood his mistake and returned
back home empty handed, losing a good friend indeed.

Thank You.