Folk Tales from Japan by Florence Sakade

Author:Florence Sakade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

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.”

Just as the big lobster was saying this and feeling so proud, the sea gull happened to fly by. “Oh, no, Mr. Lobster,” the gull said. “There is something still larger than you. You just swim farther south and you’ll see.”

“All right!” said the lobster, “that’s just what I’ll do. Such nonsense, saying there’s anything bigger than I!”

So the lobster swam and swam. Finally, far to the south, right in the middle of the Southern Sea, he saw a huge mountain rising out of the water. And he could see two caves in the mountain.

“Ah ha!” he said. “Those are fine caves. They will make a good place for me, the biggest thing in the world, to sleep.” And, happily wiggling his big feelers, he crawled up into one of the caves.

But what do you think! What Mr. Lobster had thought were caves in a mountain were actually the nose of a great whale!

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