Mouse Deer

Mouse Deer

The mouse deer was wandering around the junggle when finally  got to the border of a village where farmers grew cucumbers. The fields were full of various vegetables and crops and were unattended. The farmers who owned them rarely came to see their crops because they lived in the village quite far from the fields.

“Wonderful …. I can’t eat cucumbers in the junggle. But here …. I can eat as many as i want.”

The mouse deer greedily ate the cucumbers in the field and spent the rest of the day sleeping on the edge of the junggle nearby. The next morning he could still eat the cucumbers. The following day, the mouse deer had to hide behind a big tree. From his hiding place, he could see the farmer and his wife. They were really angry because their crops had been destroyed and their cucumbers had almost been all eaten.

“Oh no! There has got to be a new pest! All the cucumbers were ready for harvest, but now they are gone…. I don’t know where or why.”

“Pigs or some animals might have eaten our cucumbers.”

“Look at these ! There are some pieces left uneaten.”

The farmer was anggry and moved his sickle sideway in fury. “when i can get the thief, i’ll punish him! Then he’ll learn.”

Form a distance, the mouse deer saw them and suddenly felt frightened. He saw human beings for the first time and was amazed. The farmer used his tools to work on his land and did other activities skill fully. The farmer and his wife  finally left their field with only very few cucumbers in their hands. Their thought they would harvest the cucumbers in the following week.After they left, the mouse deer felt relieve and happy. The next moorning, he came back to the farm and ate almost all the new and fresh cucumbers greedily. He ate only a few bites of each cucumber and left the rest them because there are so many cucumbers around

 “I am full and satisfied. Now i have to hide  again …. There …. In the bush on the border of the junggle."The next morning, the farmer came to his farm alone to observe his cucumber crop. He found the crop in the east  part of his farm was destroyed. Cucumber left-overs were found everywhere.

“Oh no. Not again! This is serious. The thief can’t be shepperds. An animal must have stolen my cucumbers! I have to make a snare. I am going to trap it!! But now??”

Angry and curious, the farmer left his farm. As soon as he got home, he made a trap-a dummy dressed with very glutinous jackfruit sap. He carried the dummy to his farm the following morning and installed it in the middle of his cucumber farm “oh there is another human being. The farmer has brought his friend… but why is the other man so stiff and motionless while the farmer is very alive?”

Having installed the dummy in the middle of his cucumber farm, the farmer left angrily.

“Why is the human creature motionless and the mouse deer tried to static, only nodding his head when the breeze approact it. Tosses him? This one must be a stupid farmer! He is different from the other one leaving!”

The mouse deer tried to approach it.

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