Japanese Children's Favorite Stories Book 2 by Florence Sakade

Author:Florence Sakade
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781462908110
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Biggest in the World

Once upon a time, on an island in the ocean, there lived a big, big bird. He was big enough and strong enough to pick up a sheep, or even a cow, in one grab and fly up into the sky with it. This bird was very proud and was always boasting: "I'm the biggest in the world. If you looked all over the earth, you couldn't find another being as big and strong as I."

"Oh, no, Mr. Bird," said a sea gull one day who had just flown up from the south. "In a place in the Southern Sea there is a much larger being than you."

"What! What are you saying? Something larger than I am? You must be wrong!... All right, then, I'll just fly there right now, and we'll see who's biggest."

So the big bird flew off to the Southern Sea. But the Southern Sea is very wide, and no matter how far you go there seems to be no end to it. "Oh, but I'm tired!" the big bird said and started looking for a place to rest. Just in time, in the distance he saw two red columns sticking up out of the waves.

"This is just fine," the bird said, settling down with a sigh on one of the columns.

Just then the bird heard a terrible voice. "Hey!" cried the voice. "What's this? Who is sitting on the end of my feeler?" Then the column began to move, and suddenly, right from the middle of the waves, a huge lobster rose to the top of the sea, waving the feelers that the bird had thought were columns.

"Oh, what a terrible thing!" said the bird. Because he saw that the huge lobster was much, much larger than he. "I certainly lost this contest." And with that the bird flew quickly away home.

"Ho! ho! ho!" laughed the lobster. "I really frightened that bird. What fun to see the bird that thought he was so big run away like that. I'm truly the biggest in the world."

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