Once upon a time,
there was a clever monkey.
He on a beautiful island, on an apple tree.
One , a crocodile swam
to the island. ‘I’m hungry,’ he said.
So the monkey threw a red
to crocodile. The crocodile munched
and munched. The next day, the
crocodile back. ‘Please, may I have
two ?’ he asked.
He ate one and one to his wife.
The crocodile went to see the monkey
every day, to to his tales and eat his
apples. He wanted to be clever,
just like the monkey. The crocodile’s wife
had an .
‘Why don’t you eat his heart?
Then you’ll be , just like him!’
The next day, he said to the monkey,
‘Come to my house! We’ll lunch together, to
thank you for the apples.’
But he arrived, the crocodile
snapped and said, ‘Monkey! I to eat your heart,
so I can be as clever as !’
The clever monkey thought quickly and said,
‘But... I haven’t got my here. It’s on
the island, in the apple .’
They all went to the island.
‘Wait here, and I will my heart,’ said the monkey.
The monkey quickly climbed the tree
and at the top. ‘Oh, Crocodile.
You are. Of you can’t have my heart.
And now, you can’t have my apples!’ And
the monkey laughed and laughed!