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Jayvee A. Perez 09-24-19 Grade 8-St - John English 8

Sang Kancil is a clever mouse deer who is always escaping from animals that want to eat him through clever tricks. In this story, Sang Kancil sees fruit on the other side of the river but knows the big crocodile Sang Buaya lives there. He tricks Sang Buaya into thinking the king is having a feast and gets all the crocodiles to line up across the river so he can walk on them and count them. Sang Kancil counts each crocodile as he crosses to the other side of the river. When he reaches the other side, he reveals there is no feast and that he has tricked Sang Buaya to cross safely to his new home with the tasty fruit.

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Jayvee A. Perez 09-24-19 Grade 8-St - John English 8

Sang Kancil is a clever mouse deer who is always escaping from animals that want to eat him through clever tricks. In this story, Sang Kancil sees fruit on the other side of the river but knows the big crocodile Sang Buaya lives there. He tricks Sang Buaya into thinking the king is having a feast and gets all the crocodiles to line up across the river so he can walk on them and count them. Sang Kancil counts each crocodile as he crosses to the other side of the river. When he reaches the other side, he reveals there is no feast and that he has tricked Sang Buaya to cross safely to his new home with the tasty fruit.

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Jayvee A.

Perez 09-24-19
Grade 8-ST.JOHN ENGLISH 8
Outwitting a Crocodile
A Traditional Malaysian Folktale
Retold by Chok Yoon Foo from Malaysia
Sang Kancil is a clever, tricky mouse deer who is always finding himself in predicaments with animals that want to eat him
or harm him, but he cleverly manages to escape each time. In this story, Sang Kancil outwits a big, bad crocodile.

Sang Kancil was a clever mouse deer. Whenever he was in a bad situation, he always
played a clever trick to escape. In this story, Sang Kancil outwitted Sang Buaya, a big,
bad crocodile, who wanted to eat him.

There were many trees whereSang Kancil's lived along the river, so he never had
trouble finding food. There were always lots of leaves. He spent his time running and
jumping and looking into the river.

Sang Buaya, the big bad crocodile, lived in the river with other crocodiles. They were
always waiting to catch Sang Kancil for dinner. One day when Sang Buaya was walking
along the river, he saw some delicious fruit on the trees on the other side the river.

Sang Kancil wanted to taste the tasty-looking fruit because he was a little tired of
He stepped on each crocodile, eating leaves. He tried to think of a way to cross the river, but he had to be careful. He
counting each one, and finally didn't want to be caught and eaten by Sang Buaya. He needed to trick Sang Buaya.
reached the other side of the
river. Sang Kancil suddenly had an idea He called out to the crocodile, "Sang Buaya! Sang
Buaya!" Sang Buaya slowly came out of the water and asked Sang Kancil why he was
shouting his name. He asked Sang Kancil, "Aren't you afraid I will eat you?" Then he opened his big mouth very wide to
scare Sang Kancil. SangSang Kancil said, "Of course, I am afraid of you, but the king wants me to do something. He is
having a big feast with lots of food, and he is inviting everyone, including you and all the other crocodiles. But first, I have
to count all of you. He needs to know how many of you will come. Please line up across the river, so I can walk across your
heads and count all of you." Sang Buaya was excited and left to tell the other crocodiles about the feast with all the good
food. Soon, they came and made a line across the river. Sang Kancil said, "Promise not to eat me because or I can't report to
the king how many of you are coming. They promised not to eat him.

Sang Kancil stepped on Sang Buaya's head and counted one. Then he stepped on the next one and said, "Two." He stepped
on each crocodile, counting each one, and finally reached the other side of the river. Then he said to Sang Buaya,"Thank
you for helping me to cross the river to my new home."

Sang Buaya was shocked and angry. He shouted at Sang Kancil, "You tricked us! There is no feast, is there?" All of the
crocodiles looked at Sang Buaya angrily. They were angry because he let Sang Kancil trick all of them.

Sang Kancil loved his new home on the other side of the river because he had a lot of tasty food to eat. Poor Sang Buaya
was not so lucky. After that, none of the other crocodiles ever talked to him again .

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