“My wife is ill and she can recover only if she eats a monkey’s heart.” “I want to kill you.” said the crocodile. On reaching the middle of the river, the crocodile began to sink. The frightened monkey asked him why he was doing so. The crocodile told the monkey that he could ride across the river to the other bank on his back. The monkey was very happy and readily agreed. So the crocodile went to the rose apple tree and invited the monkey home to meet his wife. At the same time, he did not want his wife to die. But the thought of killing his friend made him very unhappy. The crocodile was stupid enough to believe his wife.
The crocodile’s wife thought to herself, “If the monkey eats only these sweet rose-apples, his flesh must be sweet too. The crocodile convinced her of his friendship with the monkey.
She pretended as if she did not believe that her husband, a crocodile, could be friends with a monkey. The crocodile’s wife loved the rose-apples, but she grew jealous of her husband spending so much time away from her, in the company of his new friend.
The crocodile told the monkey that he had a wife and that they lived on the other side of the river. So the generous monkey plucked many rose-apples and gave them to the crocodile for his wife. They would share rose-apples and talk about everything they knew. “You are always welcome,” said the monkey.Īfter that, the crocodile started visiting the monkey every day. The crocodile thanked him and asked him if he could visit the monkey again. The kind monkey offered him a few rose apples. He swam up to the tree and told the monkey that he had travelled a long distance and was in search of food as he was very hungry. One day, a crocodile came out of the river. A long time ago, there was a monkey who lived in a rose-apple tree by the side of a river.
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