The Four Companion

So, each night, my nieces choose one book to read before bed. So far, Katherine has chosen one book in particular many times. I have decided to copy it here. It is a hard book to read, as you will soon see. It was written in Thai and translated into English. I wrote spelling, grammar, and punctuation exactly as it appears. I promise!

The Four Companion








Once upon a time, an ass carried the sack of flour. It was an old to work hard and was expelled from the mill.

The ass travelled along the way and met a dog. The dog told "I escape from the house because my owner wants to kill me, I'm too old to chase." The ass persuaded the dog travelled together.

Both travelled through the wide yard. They met a down-and-out cat on the floor. The ass asked the cat "Why do you live here?" The cat said "My boss will throw me into the pond because I'm too old to chase rats." By the way , the ass told the cat that "You should travel with us"

Three friends walked to the village. They saw the high-pitched singing cock on the gate. The cock said with tears "I need to scream loudly for the last time as I will be killed." Three friends persuaded the cock to escape together.

The four friends travelled and stopped in the forest. They saw a house. They decided to stay at the house. It was the robber's house. The robbers were eating dinner. They made a plan to get rid of the robbers from the house.

The four friends planned to stand on each other to show their shadows on the window. And then the four screamed loundly. The robbers got afraid of them. They though their voices were ghost voices so they escaped from the house.

Then , the four friends came into the house and ate the food delicious.

At midnight a robber decided to go back to the house. He saw the cat's eyes which were a bonfire in the dark. The cat got frightened and jumped to scratch the face robber. The dog suddenly bit his leg. The ass saw him and kicked him strongly. The cock got frightened so it sang loudly and struck with it's wings heavily

Finally , the robbers escaped from that house. The four friends lived in that house happily.

Katherine is smart enough now to know that although we're saying "donkey", that's not the word that's actually written on the page. Very interesting bedtime reading...

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