Different English through stories

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1. Three Brothers:

 

Once upon a time there lived three brothers. They were Ali, Hassim and Khaieel. Before their father died, he asked his sons to divide the wealth into three equal shares. After their father’s death, they divided the wealth into three parts.

 

Ali started a business in the same place. Hassim and Khaieel let the place to seek knowledge and learn from the opportunities. Ali’s business improved very well and he had all the facilities of luxury and lived happily.

 

One day he found Laila a wise maiden who had magical powers. They got married and lived happily. She led a loving life, serving her husband.

 

Ali’s brothers visited all the places in the kingdom. Their part of wealth was spent up. So they became beggars. One day they came to Ali’s shop and begged. Ali took some coins and went near the beggars. When he was ready to give the coins, he recognized their voices. Ali was shocked at their look.

 

“What happened to you?” said Ali in a stammering voice.

 

“We lost what ever you gave us. O brother! Our business failed because of our carelessness”. They confessed

 

Ali said. “Don’t worry brothers. What we have now is ours, come on. We shall go to our home. They went to Ali’s house with a wicked plan to kill their brother Ali at any cost.

Laila also looked after them very well. But she found out their wicked plan to kill Ali through her magical power.

 

Ali gave them each thousand gold coins and said, “You start some business here and come up in life.”

 

Hassim said, “We have a plan to go east. You also come along with us. You bring Laila also. There we can earn more and shall live together.”

 

Khaleel also accepted the idea of Hassim. Ali and Laila accepted their idea. But Laila knew the cunning plan of Hassim and Khaleel.

 

All of them set off on a voyage to the east. The two wanted to kill Ali in the voyage itself. Laila watched them carefully with her magical power.

Hassim and Khaleel pushed Ali into the sea. Laila followed them alertly she took Ali to the ship again with a rope. When they returned home, She with her magical power had cast spell on the brothers and sent them to their house as watchdogs at the gate.

 

When Ali and Laila returned home, Ali saw two dogs in the gate tied with a rope. Laila said, “The dogs are your wicked brothers. I turned them into dogs.”

 

Ali became sad and said “Please forgive them and make them as men again”.

 

But Laila said, “Now it is not possible because the spell is for a limited years. Until then I can not change them.”

 

So they lived as dogs for ten years and then were changed as men. Then they felt sorry for their behavior and lived with Ali helping him in the business.

 

2.  The Three Wisemen and The Camel

 

Once there lived a man in a small village in Arabia. He had a camel. Whenever he went on a journey, he went along with his camel. At one such journey, he lost his camel unexpectedly. He was in search of his camel. He asked everyone, “Have you seen my camel.” But everywhere his effort was in vain.

 

One day when he came through a city he met three wise men on his way. As usual he asked the wise men “Have any one of you seen my camel?” The three wise men thought for a while and began to speak. The man asked them curiously, “Have you seen my camel on your way?”

 

The first wise man asked him, “Is your camel’s one eye blind?”

 

The man replied quickly, “Yes, yes my camel’s one eye is blind.”

 

“Have you seen my camel on your way” the man asked the second wise man.

 

The second wise man asked him, “Is your camel lame?”

 

The man became curious and said, “Yes, yes he is lame!”

 

“Have you seen my camel” again he asked the third wise man.

 

The third wise man asked, “Was your camel carrying honey on one side and grain on the other side?”

 

On hearing these words, the owner of the camel became happy and asked them’ “Have you all seen my camel? Please tell me.”

 

Now the three wise men replied, “We had never seen your camel?”

 

“You three are fooling me now” Don’t make fun of me”, the man said in anger.

 

The three wise men said calmly.” We are not fooling you man. We didn’t see your camel anywhere”. The man got angry and took them to the King for enquiry.

 

He said to the King, “The three men had stolen my camel my Lord”.

 

He also described what they had said. The king asked the three what had happened. The three men denied that they had never seen it. The King asked them then how they could tell the identity of the camel lost.

 

The first man told the king that he had seen the grass eaten on only one side. “So I assumed that the camel must be blind in one eye”, He said.

 

The second man said that he had seen the grains scattered on one side and the honey on the other side. “So I assumed that the camel was carrying the grains on one side and honey on the other side”, He said.

 

The third man described that the hoof marks of the camel were lighter on one side than the other. “So we came to a conclusion that the camel must be lame”, He said.

 

The courtier including the king wondered about the cleverness of the three. So the king declared that they were not thieves and he asked the owner of the camel to search on the way the three wise men had come.

The camel man went out of the court bending his head in search of his camel. The king appointed the three, as his ministers and ruled according to their advice.‌‌

3. The Prince and The Ogress

 

Once there lived a Prince. His name was Zayian. One day he went for hunting in the forest. When he was going into the deep jungle, he saw a beautiful girl.

She was searching for something. He had never seen such a beautiful girl ever before. She came near him and said, “You young man, please help me to get out of the forest”.

 

Prince readily agreed to help the girl. Both were on the horse and rode out of the forest with in minutes.

When he was nearing the Plains, they saw beautiful flowers all around in all colours The girl asked the prince to stop the horse and got down from the horse to pluck some of the flowers.

 

The Prince waited on the horse. The girl was moving away plucking the flowers and was soon out of sight.

The Prince waited for some more time. But she did not turn back. So he got down from the horse and went towards the direction she had gone, But he couldn’t see her there.

 

He came near a rock. There he saw the girl talking to somebody. He went near them without their knowledge.

The beautiful girl was really an ogres and she was talking to an ogre. She said…”A prince is waiting out side the cave on a horse. I will bring him soon” she said in a happy voice.

 

The Prince knew she was none but the beautiful girl. “Being an ugly faced ogress, she had changed her figure to attract the prince.

 

He decided to put an end to her. So he quickly moved to the horse and waited on the horse expecting the ogress girl. When she came near the prince and said, ‘’Can we go?”.

The prince sprang on her with his sword and killed her in no time. So he put an end to the wicked ogress and returned to his palace safely.‌‌

 4. The Little Hunchbacked

 

Once upon a time in ancient Kashgar, on the borders of great territory, a tailor lived with his wife. The couple were deep in love with each other.

 

One morning the tailor was working busily in his shop. A little hunchbacked came and sat by the shop’s door. He held a tambour that he played and sang many sweet songs. The tailor was very impressed by the talents of the little hunchbacked.

 

He thought, “I’ll take him home. When I am at the shop my wife is lonely at home. He will entertain my wife well.”

 

So the tailor took the little hunchbacked house in the evening. His wife had already arranged hot dinner on the table. On seeing a guest, she brought a plate and soon they were introduced. Three of them had a good dinner and joked with each other. The little hunchbacked ate a fish. But, as ill-luck would have it,

he swallowed a fish-bone. Soon enough, the little hunchbacked started choking. The tailor patted his back hard while his wife gave water to him to drink but the little hunchbacked did not recover. He choked on the fish-bone and soon lay dead by the dinner table.

 

The tailor and his wife felt very sorry at their guest’s demise. Then they grew worried. They feared that the guards of the king would come to accuse them of murder. They were scared to go to prison. So the couple thought that they would make a plan so that it would be appeared that someone other had caused his death.

 

After thinking for a long time, they decided to leave the hunchbacked at a Jewish doctor’s clinic-cum-residence.

After a while, the tailor and his wife carried the dead body of hunchbacked to the doctor’s house. They knocked at the door which led to a steep stairway to the doctor’s house. As it was dark a maid came down the stairway with halting steps. On enquiry, the tailor said, “We have brought a man who is very ill.

Here take this advance money for the Jewish doctor. Tell him to rush down here.” The maid went upstairs to call her master. Meanwhile, the tailor and his wife put the dead body of the hunchbacked on the stairs in a sitting position at the top stair. Then they ran away from the spot.

 

Now the young Jewish doctor came out running to see the ill patient whose advance payment he had received. As he ran out, he tripped over the body of the hunchbacked which he could not see in the dark. The collision caused the body of the hunchbacked to on down the stairs. As the Jewish doctor reached the hunchbacked,

he thought that he had killed him when he rolled down the stairs. Now it was the turn of the Jewish doctor to fear. He quickly carried the dead body straight to his wife’s chamber. There he told his wife what had happened. His wife started crying bitterly.

The Jewish doctor thought that he would now have to surrender and confess to the murder of the little hunchbacked. But his clever wife stopped him. She said, “You’ll be foolish to confess and go to prison. Do as I tell you. Both of us will carry this corpse to our roof. From there we’ll step on to our neighbour’s roof.

I know that our Muslim neighbour is not at home now. We’ll throw the body into his house by lowering it in through the chimney.” The doctor agreed and soon he and his wife carried out their plan successfully.

 

The Jewish doctor’s neighbour, the Muslim, worked at the Sultan’s palace. He provided oil and butter for the royal kitchen.

He had a store-room in his house where he kept his goods and many rats and mice roamed in freely. When the doctor and his wife lowered the dead body of the hunchbacked through the chimney, it went straight into the store-room.

 

That night when the Muslim-neighbour entered the storeroom with his lantern, he saw a thief standing by the wall, the roof above where the chimney was. He thought that the thief had entered through the chimney.

He picked a stout stick and started beating the thief. He yelled, “You thief, you’ve been stealing my butter for months and I thought that the mice were doing it.”