World Children's Story Classics: Family Stories

Chapter 2 Beautiful Burden

The snail's home is in a large grass. Here, there are many other small animals, such as bees, butterflies, crickets and so on.The little animals had a great time here.

One day, it was suddenly windy and rainy, and it looked terrible.The animals hurried to find a place to hide from the wind and rain.

The snail is not afraid of bad weather, because he has a strong and beautiful hut.The snail stayed in the room beautifully and fell asleep.

At this time, a knock on the door woke him up.

"Brother Snail, open the door! Let me go in to hide from the rain!" A voice said outside the door.

The snail lay on the door and looked out. It was a butterfly. She was soaked by the rain and looked so pitiful.The snail thought, "Let her in? No way! She'll make the house dirty and wet!"

Then the snail yelled viciously, "Go away! Don't bother me, I don't want you to live in my house."

Butterfly had to go away disappointed.Soon, another dripping dragonfly knocked on the door, and the snail shouted: "Damn! Get out! Don't want to live in my hut!"

In this way, the snail drove away many animals that asked him for help.

After the rain, the sky cleared, and the snail went out to bask in the sun.But he thought: "My house is so beautiful, every animal wants to live in it, I should carry it on my back to be safe." From then on, the snail went to the house where Nadu carried it, and the house was so heavy that he could only Slowly crawl and crawl...

(End of this chapter)