| My
fable is: Once upon a time
there was a zoo in New York with a lot of old animals. Every day less
and less people would come and visit the zoo and the people who did
visit would only visit the elephants.
The elephants thought they were the
biggest and best. They would make fun of the small animals especially
the small frogs. “Look at how small you are. You are nothing compared to
us”, the elephants laughed at the frogs.
The frogs heard this every day but what could they do? They were
really small compared to the elephants.
One day all the animals had a zoo
meeting. All the animals were there. Even the ants from outside the zoo
could come because the ants were friends of all the animals. “What are
we going to do? The zoo worker said that they were going to get rid of
us in a few days”, an animal screamed. The
ants had overheard the workers talking about getting rid of the animals.
All the animals were scared because they didn’t know what get rid of
them meant.
The elephants suggested that they
escape. “We need to get out of here”, the
elephants declared. “How are we going to get out of here? If we were to
get out, where would we go?”, the frogs
inquired. All the animals were thinking and then the elephants shouted,
“We can knock down the gates!”.
All the animals were excited. They
couldn’t wait to get out of that zoo.
The ants had seen that there was a
ship at the docks that was leaving to go to Africa
the next night. It was official. The elephants were going to
knock down the gates and the animals were all going to get on the ship
to Africa the next night.
The next day, the frogs went over to
elephants as they were packing their bags and asked, “Why are you guys
going to knock down the gates? I mean no offense but you will make a lot
of noise”. The elephants looked at the frogs
like they were crazy. The elephants just laughed at the frogs. “And will
you push the gates open yourself? Listen, you are small, and we are big
so just stay out of our way”, chortled the
elephants.
That night everyone was ready. All the
animals surrounded the gates waiting for the elephants to open them. The
elephants started to charge to the gate. Every step the elephants took
made a louder sound. Just before the elephants got to the gate the
midnight workers showed up. The animals scattered from the gateway and
hid. The elephants were left with the workers. The workers put the
elephants back in their cages. All the animals jumped from their hiding
places and stood there wondering what they were going to do.
It was then that the frogs saw that
there was a button above the gates. If they pushed it, hopefully it
would open the gates. The frogs jumped up higher and higher until they
finally hit the button. The gates swung open without a sound. The
animals scampered out the gate doors. They ran down to the docks to
catch the boat. The animals all piled onto the ship as it headed out to
sea towards Africa.
The elephants watched wistfully from
their cages as the ship left the docks. The frogs turned around and
sang, “Look at this; big things can come in little packages. Even though
we’re small, we have a lot to offer". |