Naughty Grasshopper

: شوخ ملخ   لیکواله: اسما کاکړ

    Written by: Asma Kakar

Once there were three grasshoppers: Jumping, Big Eye and Green living in a vast desert. They were always walking together.

One year drought caused the desert to grow nothing.

One day Jumping and Green went out from their homes to find something for eating. They met Big Eye and asked her about her business. Big Eye said that she is hungry. Green gave her a dried leaf of a tree for eating but Big Eye denied and said that once her father was the king of the desert and the servants would bring her food.

Green and Jumping left the Big Eye alone. Big Eye searched here and there but she could not find her servants. She became very hungry. Meanwhile, a gray grasshopper visited Big Eyes and said that she is also tired of eating dried leaves. She asked Big Eye to go with her and she would find her some fresh foods. They reached a top of a hill and suddenly the wind fell them down in a deep pit. Big Eye hurt her leg and Gray hurt her head.

After a few minutes, they came up from the pit with difficulties. They were injured and also very hungry. Gray found some dried grasses and ate them but Big Eye said that she is a princess and she would never eat dried grass.

A wind blew the dried grass and nothing left on the ground for eating and soon Big Eye became unconscious.