Don’t take blind leaps into the unknown……

I was doing my computer housekeeping this morning, and while I was clearing some of the many emails which always seem to back up on me,  I also had a look into my filing system, which is chaotic.  I found that I had started to write children’s stories some time ago, a pursuit which I had long forgotten about.  Anyway, to cut to the chase, the following is a story I wrote for my granddaughter as a school project. I don’t know what marks I got.  Read this and I hope you have a laugh!!!

THE MONKEY AND THE FROG

Once upon a time there were two creatures who were supposed to be friends. The monkey was very friendly but the frog was very pompous and was always bragging about how far he could jump.

One day, the monkey got fed up with the frog always talking about how good he was at jumping, and he decided to teach him a lesson.

So he said to the frog “I am going to challenge you to a leaping competition. I will jump over this little puddle and we will see if you can do it too.”

“No problem,” said the frog, “anything you can do, I can do better!!!”

And so the monkey took a big jump right over the puddle. “Your turn”, he said to the frog.

The frog puffed himself up and jumped right over the puddle. “There you are, see” he scoffed.

The monkey said “ Ok,  here we go again. I will leap over this bigger puddle” and, with that, he ran and jumped right over the water.

The frog took one look , did a giant leap and landed safely. 

Now, the monkey said to the frog” Well, you are very good at this, aren’t you? “

“I sure am, I am a much better jumper than you will ever be”, the frog boasted.

The monkey now took a scarf from around his neck and said “ Well, how about doing a jump with a blindfold on? I bet you can’t do that!!”

“I most certainly can”, laughed the frog, “ here, let me go first”

And so the monkey tied the blindfold around the frog’s eyes and led him to a much bigger pool.

“Go on, jump now” said the monkey.

The frog took a huge run forward and leapt high into the sky, but, as he couldn’t see the pool, he didn’t know that the monkey had tricked him. He fell into the pool with a giant splash, and , unfortunately,  there was a monstrous crocodile waiting for him with his jaws wide open and the last thing the frog heard was “SNAP”

And so the moral of the story is:

DON’T TAKE BLIND LEAPS INTO THE UNKNOWN