The Pebble Shooter Story in English | Stories for Teenagers | English Fairy Tales

once upon a time in

the glorious land of Laos the land of a

million elephants there lived a little

boy by the name of man's day he had no

parents and was lame in one leg but

mansae was a very happy child who was

well looked after by the villagers hello

man say I brought you fresh vegetables

from my garden Oh Leia where's the bills

I've brought him something better a

sugary sweet pie that'll rot all his

teeth the village children would always

play with him but in one particular game

he was the best

Wow how'd you hit that tree that's

mansae for you he can aim it anything no

matter how far it is well the truth was

mansae would spend a lot of time

practicing flicking pebbles at faraway

objects he could even hit at leaves in

the top toast parts of tall trees one

day as he was sitting alone under a

large banyan tree

he started flicking petals at the leaves

wow the sunlight that came through the

leaf made an image on the ground it

looks like a boy dancing and so it did

when the leaves fluttered and the

sunrays moved with them the image on the

ground would move beautifully as his

friends came to find him they were

delighted with the show

let's make something else a who soon he

had created an elephant on one leaf and

then a baby elephant

the children were enjoying the show and

almost didn't see the king and his

soldiers approaching that way but they

turned as they heard the sounds oh no

the king quick let's hide come on man

say the kids hid behind the bushes and

the king and his troops soon came over

to rest but as soon as the wind blew and

moved the leaves around the elephants

showed up near the king and surprised

him oh what's this it it looks like

magic it's beautiful guards find the

person who has created this arts Oh No

they'll come to find us run run wait

wait for me

but the children ran away leaving

mansae' behind even though the king was

a good man two little children he was

still someone great and fearsome I found

a boy here let's bring him to the king

and so poor scared man se was brought

before the king

trembling is it you who made these

images hmm prove it make another one for

man say picked a pebble but just then a

song bird perched himself on a branch

seeing it man say had an idea he flicked

the pebbles at one broken leaf and

formed the image of the bird's body on

another leaf he created the frogs head

and when the leaves moved everyone

watched in amazement amazing it looks

like the bird is singing the song the

king and his men enjoyed and collapsed

to the song of the sunlit bird my boy

you have a remarkable talent I would

like to bring you back to my castle you

would be able to help me a great deal

and so mansae sat in the very carriage

as the king and rode all the way to the

royal palace there mansae was impressed

at being inside now listen carefully to

what I have to say I will soon be

holding a meeting with my ministers one

of which doesn't stop talking oh I mean

the man just keeps on with the blah blah

blah I want to teach him how to listen

to others too so how can I help you must

hide between the curtains and shoot

bitter orange peels into his mouth

[Music]

mansae was very amused and agreed to the

king's plan

he sat behind a curtain opposite to the

minister Eric side soon the meeting

started oh no I didn't ask the King

which Minister it is now then I've

called you all to discuss the thefts in

the kingdom does anyone have anything to

say about it

we're saya I was wondering and I was

thinking maybe we should just ask the

victims I do know that some of them saw

the thief at some points that's amazing

and we can but I don't feel it will take

some time to find the man after all it

is a huge Kingdom and we do have such

nice people Eric I think he wants to say

something but we do have many soldiers

in the kingdom it may not take as much

time as I fear so that's the man well

time to take a break mr. talkative he

shot the peel straight into Eric's mouth

who is very surprised but soon turned

pale what's wrong Herod is everything

fine what's this dreadful thing in my

mouth

[Music]

Eric you're in front of the king it's

alright well what were you going to say

[Music]

will your highness I would think that

the people of this book there may be a

thief in the midst of our people I mean

we can never be too sure oh dear

I guess Eric's a little tongue-tied at

this time thank goodness

where'd your highness if you don't hear

me out I'm sorry for that but I only

wanted to say that why is this happening

every time I open my mouth

something horrible drops in and so this

time he swallowed the peel and decided

to stay quiet for fear of something else

being shot into his mouth well should I

speak now finally Your Majesty what I

wanted to say was that there's a

traveling circus caravan in our kingdom

and that every stop it makes a nearby

house is always robbed that is rather

interesting

so do you want to visit the next place

it stops at exactly Your Majesty that is

a very good idea what do you think Eric

[Music]

Eric was quite impressed at the idea yes

go on

we'll wait agree with what he said

excellent it really is nice to hear many

different opinions isn't it oh yes it is

in this way whenever Eric spoke too much

man say would shoot appeal into his

mouth so Eric remained quiet for the

whole time and had no other choice but

to listen to the others I can't remember

ever having heard their opinions before

do I really took that much after the

meeting was over that a king came up to

Eric well now do you realize that giving

others a chance to speak and voice their

opinions is an important thing yes I'm

sorry for the way I behaved I'll try

hard to change from now on Oh

mission accomplished the king was very

pleased with mansae and allowed him to

stay in the palace he was well fed and

looked after and lived a very happy life

displaying his talent to others and as

for Eric well he was true to his word

and tried hard to allow others the

chance to speak because listening to

others opinions is a very important

thing

we must always care and value other

people's thoughts too

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