"Omusubikororin"

Takako Niki
AE2 core class

The title is "Omusubikororin". This is a story that is told in Japan.

Once upon a time, there were a grandfather and a grandfather who were honest. One day he went to the mountain to cut down trees. So she went there having riceballs for him. Then, she said "Honey, I bring you riceballs. Let's have a break". And she opened the pack. The next moment, a riceball was rolling down the hill. So she hastily ran after it. "Wait, wait please". But the riceball fell down in a big hole under the tree. When she wondered what she should do and looked down into the hole, she heard something murmuring. "omusubikororin, suttonton". (It means)"A riceball rolled down here". She wanted to listen more, so she looked down into the hole. But unluckily, she also fell down into the hole. When she woke p and looked around, she found the small and white mice making some sticky rices. (In Japan, we call it Mochi.) As they made those, gold was coming out.
"Wow!" She was suprised at this unbelievable view. Then an older mouse came to her and said, "We want to give you a thank-you present of a riceball. Which box do you want, the bigger one or the smaller one?" Then she said, "I can't bring back the binner one, so I'll take the smaller one". And she came home with the box. In their house, the grandfather had already came home and had been waiting for her. They opened the box together. Then there was a lot of gold and silver in it. But another grandmother who lived next door and was greedy was seeing that. The grandmother wanted to get treasures, so she threw a riceball in the hole and dived in. She said "Give many treasures, or I will imitate the call of a cat". But the next moment, the mice became angry and bit her. So she ran away saying sorry.

Moral: One should be not greedy but honest.

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