307 tale 26 / The Olympics of the
animals
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The Olympics of the animals
The sun had just come up, the first birds began to sing
and the monkey was still sleeping deeply on a branch fork. Nevertheless, when
the turmoil around him grew more violent, it tore him out of dreams. His face
betrayed a slight irritation, since he still had beautiful images in front of
his mind's eyes. "He had just been chosen as the winner of all and his
head crowned with laurels."
The dream had been so real that he wondered what he was
doing here on the branch fork. The expression in his face turned into a smile
again. "I'm the best!" He only needed spectators who would applaud.
Therefore, the monkey went down to the elephant and pushed him in the side so
it would give the signal with his trumpet for a big meeting of the animals.
It wasn't long before the forest, prairie, air, and water
animals hurried from all directions to receive the good or bad news. There
were different expressions on their faces.
Then the monkey climbed on the small rock in the middle
of the square and raised his hands. Slowly, silence conquered the place and
everybody waited to listen. "Today, it is the big day of the Animal
Olympics!" One observing could see that nobody really knew what the Olympics
should be. "I'm the best!" - continued the monkey. "I will
compete against everyone in their own ability. I swim better than the fish,
fly faster than the bird and jump farther than the frog.”
The animals' amazement grew. What was going on in the head
of this monkey? "I'm going to compete against the frog first." He
climbed down from the rock, took a stick and drew a line in the loose ground.
Then he took off and hopped. Everyone was amazed that the monkey could make
such jumps. Now the green animal stood behind the line, made a mediocre leap
and landed on the other side of the square in the bushes, where no one could
see it anymore. "Disqualified!" - cried the monkey. "The jury
decided that the frog would be disqualified because it had left the runway."
The animals did not understand what the words "disqualify and jury"
meant, it was clear to them that the frog had jumped a lot farther. Nevertheless,
they were not surprised when the monkey put some plant wreath (laurel) on his
head.
The mood was actually getting better, the whole thing
started to please the animals. The next competitor was the zebra. The monkey and
the ungulate stood behind the start line. "Ready and go!" The
relative of the horses had already run to the finish and back when the monkey
had only reached the middle. Hard breathing, he crossed the finish line,
turned and thought that he had been so fast that the zebra couldn't follow
him. "I'm really fit today."
The fish was already waiting for its opponent on the
bank. The monkey threw himself into the floods and started
beating its arms wildly. Fearing that he would drown, the turtle swam under
him and brought the drenched back to the shore. "This is cheating!"
- he complained. "The armored animal prevented me from swimming!"
He coughed and spat so much water that nobody could understand what he was
saying.
Then he ran up a high rock. The animals were getting
scared for him. The giant spider quickly spun a net under him, for the case
the monkey thought of jumping down. "I fly faster than the birds can."
And with the speed of a falling stone, he approached the ground, exactly into
the elastic net of the spider, which always catapulted him back into the air
with the same force. Every time he went up, he shouted, "I'm flying!
Just look how I’m flying!"
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Friday, 27 December 2019
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