Narration: How the Whale got his throat

TITLE: How the Whale got his throat
AUTHOR: Rudyard Kipling

NARRATION: The whale ate all the fish and the dish and the kish and the bish and the vish and the hish and there was no more fish left except for one tiny little fish called the Stute fish. And the whale said "I'M HUNGRY!" And then the little fishy said "Have you ever tasted man?" And the whale said, "NO!"

The whale asked "HOW DO THEY TASTE?" The little fish said they taste chubby and nubby. And the whale said, "FETCH ME SOME." The little fish said, "Go to 4 east west and 5 east 10th street." And the whale swam as fast as he could to 4 east west and 5 east 10th street. And he found there as the fish had said a man in the middle of the sea on a raft wearing a pair of blue pants with a pair of suspenders. And there he gobbled the man up in one gulp, he sucked up the sea.

In the whale's stomach the man danced and pranced and manced and tanced and wanced and danced until the whale go the hiccups. *hiccup [sound effect here]* The whale said,"STOP IT", but the man said, "No I will not until you take me home."

So the whale swam to the sailor's home. And then the man jumped out and went home. But before he did that he took his knife and cut his raft and made a grate and tied it with his suspenders and clipped it on to the whale's throat. So from then on, the whale did not eat anything but tiny fish. The end.

REVIEW: I thought this story was very silly because suspenders are not water-proof and they would fall apart when they touched water. The end of my review. I liked the fishy part of the story and the other parts I did not get at all.

Narration: The Enchanted Princess (part 1)

TITLE: The Enchanted Princess (from the collection, Stories From Bengal)
AUTHOR: Betsey Bang

NARRATION: There was a raja and he had seven ranis. They had no sons. And then a man gave them a root and told them to pound it well and eat it and they will have sons. So the five eldest ate so much that there was none left for the other ranis, Middle Rani and Little Rani. The other ranis laughed at them and said that if they had children it would be an owl and a monkey. They gave birth to baby boys and there were five boys and Middle Rani had an owl and Little Rani had a monkey. And then everybody cheered because they had sons. But no one asked about Middle Rani and Little Rani and they were put work in the garden as slaves. Little Rani had to get fuel for the palace and Middle Rani had to sweep the garden and feed the birds.

The princes grew up to be big and they ran around and around and around. They were not nice. They rode their pegasuses and beheaded people. But the owl and the monkey grew up in the garden. One day, the owl and the monkey got out of the garden and went to the gatekeeper. The gatekeeper asked "Who are you?" and they said, "I'm the monkey prince." "And I'm the owl prince."The gate keeper opened the gate and they went to the raja, and the monkey prince sat on his lap and the owl prince sat on his shoulder. They said "Father!" And the raja had tears in his eyes, he cried for joy.

One day, an enchanted princess came and the ranis wanted their sons to look for her kingdom, so they set off in peacock boats. The monkey and the owl princes said "We need to go too in our own peacock boats." So they went home, and the ranis said, "Our sons should go too." So they made little canoes and painted them a beautiful color.

REVIEW: So far I think that it is a rather long story. I think that it is a very unusual story because there is almost no way humans could give birth to a monkey and an owl. That means this story is not a true story. Those two girls could not have given birth to an owl and a monkey. And that's all I think about it so far.