The Diligent Baker
In ancient times, in a small village lived a diligent baker named Mandi. Mandi used to make delicious sweets that all the village’s inhabitants loved, especially chocolate chip cakes and biscuits. She used to make fresh sweets every day. If anything remained from them at the end of the day, she would distribute them to the needy children in the village and make other types the next day.
But in front of the diligent baker Mandi, there was another baker named Barni. He was an envious, wicked man who would feel intense jealousy from Mandi because all the village’s inhabitants loved her sweets and bought from her, while he sold nothing.
Barni said to himself, “I must make the bakeries favor Mandi and buy from my store.” So he started a trick with the sweets’ price and started selling the two cakes for one price. So some bakeries came to him, but they found his sweets weren’t fresh and not delicious like Mandi’s, so no one bought from him again. His anger from Mandi increased.
One day, one of the village’s notables came to the diligent baker Mandi and told her that there was a big celebration for his son’s birth after three days, and he wanted to buy a large cake plate of delicious sweets from Mandi’s small cakes to present in his son’s birth celebration. So Mandi began working hard. She brought the finest types of chocolate, flour, and best ingredients. She began preparing the big cake plate for the birth celebration.
On the other side, her wicked neighbor Barni heard about the notable’s request and decided to sabotage her work because if the notable was pleased with her sweets, he would always buy from her and his partner. So he waited until she finished preparing the cake and closed her store, then went to her home, then sneaked inside her store with a bag full of rats.
The wicked neighbor Barni first stole the large cake plate Mandi had made and transferred it to his store, then opened the bag and released the rats inside the store to eat the rest of the sweets.
In the morning, Mandi went to her store happy and ready to sell the big cake plate for the birth celebration. But as soon as she opened the store, she found rats everywhere eating the sweets, and the notable’s cake wasn’t present. She was extremely sad and wondered where those rats had come from.
Her wicked neighbor entered her, laughing silently, and told her that he was ready to prepare a large cake plate for the notable’s palace celebration to present in his son’s birth celebration. Immediately, Mandi realized he was the one who did that and stole her cake to sabotage her work.
But she didn’t despair. She had three hours until the delivery time. Immediately, she went to her home and because she was skilled, she began making a big cake in the shape of a wonderful ship. She quickly prepared the ingredients and made a cake she hadn’t made more beautiful than before. She went to the palace and presented them the cake, and told the notable she had made him a big cake like no one had made in the village before.
When she presented it, the notable was pleased and all those present were happy with the cake, as its taste was delicious, which made Mandi’s bakeries increase and her store grow, while her wicked neighbor Barni was forced to close his store.
Lessons Learned from the Story: One of the lessons children should learn from this story is the importance of diligence in work. Also, we must not despair and give up quickly, trying to achieve our goals until the end.
Girl Tuta the Beautiful
In ancient times, in the village of Rosemburge, there was a small family living in a home near the forest. The family consisted of the mother and her three children - Kula and Zoi and Adward. The village was famous for planting beautiful mulberries. It was the main product in the village, so the family used to make jam from the delicious mulberries.
One day when the family gathered in the morning for the breakfast table, delicious beautiful mulberry bunches were present on the table. While the family members were conversing, the children noticed a small white worm on one of the jam bunches. Adward shouted, “This worm will kill it!”
His sister Kula said, “Don’t do that,” and told them, “Come, oh Kula, pick that worm far from the jam immediately.” So Kula picked a mulberry tree leaf and carried the worm on it, intending to leave it in the forest. She went out and her sister Zoi with her. They were supposed to leave the worm on one of the trees. But Zoi noticed that the finch bird was standing on the tree, so she told her sister, “We mustn’t leave it here so the bird doesn’t eat it.” So they walked in the forest until they found a beautiful red mulberry tree, so they left the worm there.
In the evening, the family sat at the table to eat dinner with the delicious jam taste. The children began eating until they were full, but all the jam had become empty. The mother told them, “We’ve eaten all the jam and no longer have any jam to put for the winter.”
The girls said, “No harm, oh Mother. We’ll go in the morning to gather beautiful mulberries from the forest to make jam for the winter.” In the morning, Zoi carried the white basket and Kula carried the blue basket. Their mother told them, “Well done, oh daughters, but go, but you must return to the home before the sun sets.”
The girls entered the forest and walked a long time. They found black mulberry trees and green mulberries, but they didn’t find beautiful mulberries. They walked more until they found a place with many beautiful mulberry trees. They filled the baskets. But the evening had approached, so they decided to return to the home, but they realized they had lost the path to the home. So they began to walk in the forest until the evening, and they sat in the forest until the morning. Zoi told Kula, “I’m concerned we’ll see a huge fire from our home in the morning.”
In the morning, they tried to search for the path again but to no avail. The evening came again, so Zoi and Kula sat in the forest and they both felt fear. Suddenly, their mothers appeared as a small beautiful fairy. She led them until they reached a place full of beautiful mulberry trees, then disappeared. The girls recognized it was the same place they had gathered the mulberries from yesterday evening. They were exhausted from long walking and hunger as well, and the world was dark, so they began crying.
And Kula said, “I wish I could find dinner because I’m hungry.” Suddenly, dinner appeared in her hands. She told Zoi, “Look what you found in your hands?” Zoi said, “I wish I could find dinner and a delicious drink as well.” Suddenly, a drink and delicious dinner appeared in her hands. So the girls ate until they were full. Suddenly, their mothers appeared as two beautiful and healing women. So they slept until the morning.
With the sunrise, the girls found themselves among the beautiful green mulberry trees, butterflies flying around them, and the sun’s rays shining everywhere. They remembered they were in the forest, and suddenly their mothers the fairy appeared again, so they were very happy.
Suddenly, an old man came out from among the trees. He was walking carrying a white basket and had a pot of honey with grapes in the shape of beautiful mulberries. He told the girls, “God bless both of you. I’m the king of beautiful mulberries. This is the fairy I sent to help you because you helped me before.”
The girls were amazed at him because they hadn’t seen him before. He told the girls he was the same worm that was in their home, and that he transforms into the shape of the worm every year to know the value of good people, and that they must thank him for saving his life. He told them he would send the fairy with them to show them the path to the home, and that they would find much help in his home because of their good, compassionate hearts.
Indeed, the fairy led them both until the home. When they reached the home, their mother was waiting anxiously about them. So they told her about the king of beautiful mulberries and the fairy. Their mother said, “My children, your brother Adward told me an old man passed by the home and left you a basket.”
When they opened the basket, they found two rings of gold and earrings in the shape of beautiful mulberries. There was also a bracelet for Adward as well in the shape of a worm. Adward felt ashamed of himself and decided he wouldn’t harm any creature after now.
Lessons Learned from the Story: We must love all creatures and not harm them ever.