by
Kelli USA
There was a boy who lived in the jungle. His family didn't have much money to buy things, but one day his father brought home to him a brand new pair of shoes, and a brand new pair of pants, and a brand new jacket. The boy was so happy to have new clothes that he put them all on right away. He was admiring himself in the mirror when his mother asked him to go to into the jungle for firewood so she could cook breakfast. So the boy went off into the jungle.
After a while the boy met a tiger who said, "roar! I've got you cornered, and now I'm going to eat you!"
The boy said, "oh no! Please don't eat me, Mr. Tiger!"
The tiger said, "why shouldn't I eat you?!".
The boy said, "I....I....I'll give you my brand new pants, if only you don't eat me!"
The tiger said, "what am I going to do with a pair of pants -- I'm a tiger, not a boy!"
The boy said, "you could put them on -- I'm sure you'd look very handsome, and you'd be the envy of eveyone in the jungle!"
The tiger thought this over, and finally decided he liked the idea, so he agreed. He put the pants on and off he went to show off his brand new pair of pants. And the boy went on his way.
After a while the boy met ANOTHER tiger.
He said, "roar! I've got you cornered, and now I'm going to eat you!"
The boy said, "oh no! Please don't eat me, Mr. Tiger!"
The tiger said, "why shouldn't I eat you?!".
The boy said, "I....I....I'll give you my brand new pair of SHOES, if only you don't eat me!"
The tiger said, "what am I going to do with a pair of SHOES -- I have four feet, not two!"
The boy said, "you could put them on your EARS -- I'm sure you'd look very handsome, and you'd be the envy of eveyone in the jungle!"
The tiger thought this over, and finally decided he liked the idea, so he agreed. He put the shoes on his ears and off he went to show off his brand new shoes. And the boy went on his way.
After a while the boy met YET ANOTHER tiger.
H said, "roar! I've got you cornered, and now I'm going to eat you!" (or something like that).
The boy said, "oh no! Please don't eat me, Mr. Tiger!"
The tiger said, "why shouldn't I eat you?!"
The boy said, "I....I....I'll give you my brand new JACKET, if only you don't eat me!"
The tiger said, "what am I going to do with a JACKET -- I have FOUR LEGS, and a jacket has TWO ARMS !"
The boy said, "you could put it on with your two front legs in the arms of the jacket -- I'm sure you'd look very handsome, and you'd be the envy of eveyone in the jungle!"
The tiger thought this over, and finally decided he liked the idea, so he agreed. He put the jacket on and off he went to show off his brand new jacket. And the boy went on his way.
After a while, the boy heard a lot of noise going on around the corner. It sounded like somebody was having an arguement. He peeked around from behind a tree and there were all three of the tigers that he had given his clothes to! They were arguing about who had the best clothes.
"My jacket looks better on me than those shoes on your ears, or those pants on you!", said one of the tigers to the other two.
"No, no!", said one of the other tigers, "my PANTS look better on me!"
"I look better with these fancy SHOES on my ears, than EITHER of you!", said the third tiger.
The tigers started trying to catch each other. One dashed around a tree, and another followed him, and the third tiger followed both of them, and before you knew it, all three tigers were chasing each other round and round the tree!
They went faster and faster, until they were just a blur of motion, and you couldn't tell what they were anymore! Faster and faster they went! They went so fast, in fact, that they started to MELT! The stripes melted and dripped down their sides, and before you knew it, the tigers weren't tigers anymore -- now they were all just a melted yellow puddle on the ground. Of course, now they couldn't run anymore, being all melted and all, so they stopped.
The boy watched all this from behind the tree, and when he saw what had happened, he cautiously went up to the puddle of melted tigers on the ground.
"Well," said the boy, "I guess they won't be needing my clothes anymore", and he put his clothes back on. The he noticed that the melted tigers, now that they were all melted and mixed up, looked something like butter, so he stuck his finger into the mess and tasted the mixture.
"Mmmmmm!" he said, "it IS butter! Yum!"
He scooped up as much as he could into a bucket, and he set off for home, remembering to gather firewood on the way.
When he got home, his mother saw the firewood and butter he had brought and said,
"what a good boy you are! Now, I'll fix you some pancakes with butter for breakfast!" And the boy ate pancakes until he was stuffed! In fact, he ate FIVE-HUNDRED (500!) pancakes, to be exact! And then he laid down and took and nap and dreamed about his new clothes.
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