The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days? Pardon, O King -cried the little Mouse. Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. Cuento en inglés: El león y el ratón (The Lion and the Mouse) His brothers didn´t want to play with him, he was so clumsy, and all the farmyard folks simply laughed at him. As the days went by, the poor ugly duckling became more and more unhappy. Well, the gray duckling certainly wasn´t pretty, and since he ate far more than his brothers, he was outgrowing them. "I can´t understand how this uglyduckling can be one of mine!" she said to herself, shaking her head as she looked at her last born. The ducklings grew quickly, but Mother Duck had a secret worry. But before she had time to think about it, the last egg finally hatched.Ī strange looking duckling with gray feathers that should have been yellow gazed at a worried mother.
How did it get there? TOCK! TOCK! The little prisoner was pecking inside his shell. Mother Duck couldn´t recall laying that seventh egg. One nice morning, the eggs hatched and out popped six chirpy ducklings.īut one egg was bigger than the rest, and it didn´t hatch. Once upon a time down on an old farm, lived a duck family, and Mother Duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. Cuento en inglés The ugly duckling (El patito feo)
Moral of the fable: a kindness is never wasted.įábula de la paloma y la hormiga en español 3. But just as he cast the stone, the ant stung him in the heel, so that the pain made him miss his aim, and the startled dove flew to safety in a distant wood. Soon after, the ant saw a man getting ready to kill the dove with a stone. Clinging to the straw like a shipwrecked sailor to a broken spar, the Ant floated safely to shore. The Ant struggled in vain to reach the bank, and in pity, the dove dropped a blade of straw close beside it. Cuento en inglés para niñosĪ dove saw an ant fall into a brook. Lee el cuento de Perseo y Medusa en españolĢ. Then Perseus came without making noise and cut her head off with just one cut.ĭuring all his life, he kept Medusa?s head which he used many times to turn his enemies into stone. Her terrible eyes closed and little by little, her snakes also fell asleep. But she never got that Perseus watched her directly. She cried horrible things and the snakes of her head where moving and whistling furiously. Medusa was going from one place to another, making efforts to scare Perseus. But instead of throwing himself against Medusa, he remained far only worrying about not looking her to the face, not seeing her eyes under no circumstances.Īnd as it was necessary to spy her all the time, he used the bronze shield as a mirror to watch all that she was doing. And he had also wings which flied each time that he put them in his hills. He had a very hard shield made out of bronze and as plain as a mirror. He had a curved sword a present from god Mercury. Perseus knew how dangerous were Medusa?s eyes but he was very well prepared. Warriors and warriors were seen in all parts in different attitudes, but motionless and stiff. And when Medusa saw the face of a man, dog or living being, the man, the dog and the living being were immediately turned into statues of stone.ĭuring years, a lot of brave and well armed heroes had come to the region of Atlas to kill Medusa. From Medusa?s head, instead of hair, living snakes came out.
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