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The Jackal and the Arrow

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Once upon a time, there lived a hunter in a village. He was living there happily with his family. One fine morning, he set out from his home with the intention of hunting a deer in the nearby forest. It was a fortunate day as he saw a deer and killed him instantly. He hung the carcass of the deer over his shoulder and happily started for his home.

The Hunter had barely walked a distance, when he saw a wild Boar. He quickly dropped the dear on the ground and shot the boar with an arrow. The arrow pricked the Boar’s neck projecting through his back. Before collapsing, the Boar gave a fearful groan and killed the Hunter with his pointed tusks. In no time, the Hunter and the Boar, both were lying dead at the same spot.

After some time, a Jackal happened to pass through that place. He saw a man and a boar, both lying dead at the same spot. At a distance, he also found a dead deer. The hungry Jackal got crazy to find so much to eat at the same time and that too without any effort. He was overjoyed at the sight of mouth relishing flesh and said, “Ah! What a luck I have! It looks as if I am going to have a feast, but I’II eat only a little at a time so it will last longer”.

He began to think that with whose flesh to start his feast, the man or the animal. He decided to lick the blood first and taste a little flesh stuck around the arrow. But, as soon as, he put the pointed arrow in his mouth, it pricked his jaws and went through his head. The Jackal died a greedy death on the spot.

Moral: Greed never pays.

Taken from: http://www.culturalindia.net

The possibly new vocabulary for you:

1. carcass: the body of a dead animal

2. barely:  used for emphasizing that something happened only a very short time before something else

3. boar: a male pig

4. prick: to make a very small hole in the surface of something with a sharp object

5. groan: to make a long low sound, for example because you are in pain or unhappy

6. jackal: a wild animal like a dog that lives in Asia and Africa

7. relish: to get great pleasure or satisfaction from something

8. flesh: the soft part of people‘s or animals‘ bodies that consists mostly of muscle and fat

9. stuck: the past tense and past participle ofstick,
to push something long and thin into or through something else

10. tusk: one of the two very long pointed teeth on an animal such as an elephant or a walrus

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The Other Narrative Text Examples:

1. Cindelaras
2. Jaka Tarub and Nawang Wulan
3. Loro Jonggrang
4. Lutung Kasarung
5. Minangkabau
6. Origin of Lotus
7. Rama, The Dutiful Son
8. Telaga Warna
9. The Fox and the Mosquitoes
10. The Penny Wise Monkey
11. The Pirate Crocodile
12. The Princess and the Pea
13. The White Gibbon
14. Uncle Spider
15. The Bird with Two Heads
16. The Birds and the Shivering Monkeys
17. The Jackal and the Arrow
18. The Monkeys and the Bell
19. The Purse of Gold
20. An Old Tiger and a Greedy Traveler
21. The Wind and the Moon
22. The Talkative Tortoise
23. The Ant and the Grasshopper
24. The Buffoon and the Countryman
25. The Dog and the Wolf
26. The Fox and the Stork
27. The Fox, the Cock, and the Dog
28. The Frog and the Ox 
29. The Hare with Many Friends
30. The Labourer and the Nightingale
31. The Lion in Love
32. The Man and the Satyr
33. The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey
34. The Shepherd’s Boy
35. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
36. Bawang Putih Bawang Merah
37. Keong Emas
38. Calon Arang
39. Kancil and the Farmer
40. The Myth of Malin Kundang
41. The Story of Sangkuriang and Tangkuban Perahu Mountain
42. The Legend of Toba Lake
43. Cinderella
44. Snow White
45. The Story of Smart Monkey and Dull Crocodile
46. Romeo and Juliet
47. Kite’s Tale
48. Story of Rabbit and Bear
49. Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks
50. The Smartest Parrot

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