Babu and the Lion Exercise 1

Find the answers to the questions below.

1. What was the slave’s name?
2. Was the slave a man or a woman?
3. Was the master kind or bad?
4. Where did the slave run away?
5. Where did she/he sleep?
6. What animal did she/he see next morning?
7. Was the animal big or small?
8. Was the slave afraid of the animal?
9. Did the animal attack him/her?
10. What did the slave do to the animal?

The Prince and His Best Friends

The Prince and His Best Friends

Once upon a time, there lived a kind young prince named Jonathan. He was loved, and adored by his people. His two close friends were Peter Piper, the servant of the palace and Franklin Greedy, the son of an Aristocrat.

One day, The Prince, Peter Piper, and Franklin Greedy were walking through the forest. Suddenly a group of bandits attacked the three boys near an old house. They entered the old house and blockaded the gate and doors. The three boys were trapped inside the house.

Franklin was very terrified and asked the Prince to surrender immediately, but Peter was not afraid. He urged and supported the Prince not to give up. The Prince decided not to surrender because he realized that he would become a hostage for the bandits to ask for ransom to his father, but Franklin was scared and wanted to make a deal, it made Peter suspicious about Franklin’s behavior. So he quietly made up a plan for him and the Prince to escape.

Early at dawn, Franklin opened the front gate and unlocked the doors. The bandits entered the house in search of the Prince. When they came to the room where the Prince was supposed to be sleeping, no one was there. Suddenly they heard a horse running outside the house and saw over the window that Peter Piper and the Prince were riding away on one of the bandit’s horses.

It turns out. Peter Piper sneaked out of the house and waited in the yard, while the Prince was hiding behind the house. The bandits were very angry at Franklin and took him with them while the Prince and Peter went safely going back to the Capital.

The Owl and the Nightingale

The Owl and the Nightingale

There was once a nightingale in a cage by a window that was his habit to sing only at night. An owl was puzzled by this and went to ask the nightingale what the reason was. “When I was captured“, explained the nightingale, “it was day and I was singing. In this way I learnt to be more carefully and to sing only at night.”

“Are you afraid you might be captured a second time?” asked the owl. “Oh, it would have been better if you had been more careful the À rest time when your freedom was at risk. Now it doesn’t really matter anymore, right?”

Taken from 366 and More Fairy Tales, 1990