Monkeys fishing the moon

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One night, a monkey was playing by well.

It looked into the well and found a moon inside.

The little monkey cried out immediately;

“Oh, no! the moon fell into the well!”

A big monkey heard and ran over to took a look, it also yelled,

“Oh, no! the moon fell into the well!”

An old monkey heard and ran over to take a look, and also cried out,

“Oh, no! the moon fell into the well!

We have to figure out a way to fish it up”

So all the monkeys climbed up the big tree by the well.

The old monkey hung upside down on the tree,holding the big monkey’s feet.

The big monkey was hanging upside down, holding the feet of the other monkey.

The monkeys were holding each other in this way and hung all the into the well.

The little monkey hung it the very bottom.

It reached out for the moon to fish it up .

But as soon as it’s hands touched the water, the moon broke into the pieces.

The little monkey said nervously ; “Oops, I broke the moon!”

Everyone started blame to the little monkey.

After a while, the surface of water returned calmness, and a round and bright moon apeared in the well.

The little monkey reached out his hand again to fish for the moon, but as soon as it touched the moon, it broke into pieces again.

The mokey fished several times without success.

Everyone complained: “It’s so exhausting and the moon still can’t be fished up. We want to do this anymore.”

It this time the old monkey looked up and saw that the moon was still in the sky.

It breathed heavily and said, No need to fish it up, no need to fish it up, the moon is hanging in the sky, the in the well is it’s reflection.”

The monkeys looked up it the moon and all loughed.

This story tells us that we must observe and think carefully before taking any acctions.

Don’t be like monkeys who think they are smart enough, Otherwise all efforts may end up in vain.

I am Yingwen. here on my blogs we have three blogs we are sharing and posting informative posts about personalities, places and about special topics and english stories for english learner while also have a blog on chinese stories for chinese leaners

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