Monday, January 30, 2012

enjoy this short story from me

WHY BABIES CAN’T TALK. Very long time ago, babies were able to speak as soon as they were born. They did not cry when they wanted food, or when they were too hot or too cold or uncomfortable in any way. They just opened their mouths and told their mothers what they wanted. This made it very easy for their mothers to look after them. Unlike nowadays when babies just cry and their mothers have to guess what their babies want. In fact, it was very easy to take care of children by parents that way. However, the babies were not very wish. They never reasoned like adults. Wise people do not talk about all that they see or hear. But the foolish babies did not know this. If someone comes to the house with only one leg or any other physical deformity, a baby would definitely react by saying,’ go away, one-legged man!’ The man would be angry and the baby’s mother would be ashamed. She has to apologise to the person, and she would begin to wish that babies did not know how to speak after all. It was such an unbearable character of babies. They caused a lot of troubles with their foolish talk. They often created disharmony between neighbours. During those days, a certain woman used to steal from people but never caught. She often did that when nobody is seen in the house. She does her stealing through very clever means. One day, she decided to steal from a nearby house as usual. She entered the house as if she was going to take some burning wood from the house to light hers. The owner of the house was not in. only her little baby was lying on a mat in the room. The woman saw some money on a table. She went closer and touched the money. She said ‘I can take this money since there is no one here, only a little baby, no one will know that I took the money ’. She quickly made it to her house after hiding the money under her clothes. When the baby’s mother returned, she shouted, ‘who has stolen my money?’ The baby at once told her. He said, ‘Mother, I know the thief. She is the woman in the next house.’ He described how the woman took the money and hid in her clothes and made it home. The story of the baby spread like bush fire. Everybody wanted to hear his story. They cheered him. They clapped their hands and shouted’ Thief! Thief!!!! at the woman who had stolen the money from the house. She was very ashamed. She pleaded for forgiveness and took a vow not to even steal a pesewa from anybody again. Oboadeέ, Maker and owner of All Things (GOD), heard the story. He also heard that babies often made rude and foolish pronouncement because they were not old enough to be wise. He planned to do something about that to prevent babies from doing that. So, He took some water yam, cut it into two equal parts and scrapped some of the raw yam with knife. He put the scrapped yam into the baby’s throat. Since that time, babies have not been able to talk. Whenever they try to say something, a little raw scrapped yam comes out of the mouth instead. As they grow older and wiser the white substance becomes less and lesser in their throat, they begin to talk little by little. When they are old and wise enough, they can talk as their parents. ALIU ALHASSAN.

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