There was once a monkey, a poor one, in the forest, who liked to play a lot, so one time, in the night of a big fire, in the forest, so that monkey was broken in a way, not ordinary, and he liked to play, and to do the playing with the animals in the forest.

His mother was afraid of what he was doing and told him that the play of the continuous might change to fear, so he is wrong and affects those around him, except that the monkey did not listen to the speech of his mother, and he played every day with the animals and annoyed all the people, and one time of the days, that monkey was playing the house of the animals and was walking a lot from the village, and he had left without his mother knowing.

The mother went with his clothes to the place where there were the trees and the fruits and the fruits and was walking the village, and he was very sad, on that, and then the mother went to him and did not tell anyone that he had played with the fire in the forest, and while the mother was smelling, she smelled a smell of smoke.

The mother said, “There is a smell of smoke, not ordinary, do you smell this smell, O my son?” The monkey said, while he was crying, “I do not smell anything, O mother,” and the mother continued, oh mother after some time there was a strange smell, so the mother became very sad, and the monkey continued saying with sadness, very sad.

After a long time, then the mother heard suddenly someone knocking at the door of the house with a sound and a knock, and she was afraid, saying, “Wake up, O people of the house, there is a terrible fire,” the mother woke up, and got up, and she tripped on her leg as the leg of the monkey her son also tripped, the monkey cried with a sound and learned from the crying and got up to run away with a tongue.

And after the burning of all the things until they left what they were living in it, all burned with the fire, here the monkey learned and said, “I was the one who did that fire, when I was playing, I wanted to play with you all, so I did that playing,” and all the animals looked at him with a great anger and condemned him for what he did, and they told him that he caused to the loss of all the things and he deserves this fire and more, because he burned them all and caused to the injuries of them.

So the monkey confessed to his act and promised them that he will not do that again, but after what?

Translated from: The Lying Monkey and the Fire