The elephant thought, "Why are my legs so thick and ugly. If only I had four fawn-like legs, light and slender."
The duck thought, "Why do I have such a pair of small, thin legs, and it's so troublesome to walk with wide webbed feet."
So the animals talked about changing their legs.
There was a magician in the forest, the familiar owl. It claimed to be able to fulfill everyone's wishes with just a salami as a token of appreciation. So, everyone came to it in droves to get their legs swapped.
The owl reminded everyone, "Gentlemen, my magic is of limited potency. So everyone only has three chances to fulfill their wishes, and more than that will fail. Everyone must think carefully about whose legs to change and how many legs to change before coming back to me."
With an articulate mouth, the elephant finally talked the fawn into moving. So the two of them came together to find an owl to change their legs.
"You have to think it over, and realize that you can't change it back for a year after you've done it." The owl said.
"Think it over, I want four dexterous legs." Sister Elephant said.
"I want four stout legs, mine look too skinny." Brother Fawn also said.
So the owl began to cast a spell and helped them change their legs. Then they went home with joy. With four long legs, Sister Elephant wore high heels for the first time. In front of the mirror, Sister Elephant looked left and right and just couldn't get enough. She used her toes to point to the ground, turned around in place ballet before she was satisfied to go out.
The deer brother is also very happy, in the past people are laughing at it lack of manliness, too thin. This time, when it walked through the basketball court with heavy steps. All the children stopped, opened their mouths wide and looked enviously at its four big thick legs.
It even lifted a sculpture that weighed a thousand pounds as it passed through a square.
And so it went, and both the elephant and the deer were excited for a month. But after that month, they were a little less excited. Why? Sister Elephant realized that she always broke her foot when walking, sometimes even three times a day. Moreover, walking was becoming more and more expensive for her shoes, sometimes she even had to change eight pairs of shoes a month. The wear and tear is too serious, every time to wear to the exposed toes, even if it is a clever cobbler also shook his head and said that can not be made up.
It's a coincidence that, with such a thick arm and leg, the deer brother also gradually feel uncomfortable. One is to walk more and more slowly, simply can not run up. His arms and legs were too heavy, so every time he went out to run, he was always left behind. There were times when he was chased by a couple of wolves, but in the past he could easily leave them behind by three and a half blocks.
A year passed, the elephant and deer came to the owl's residence, begging it to change their legs back. Owl looked at their emaciated appearance of yellow skin, sighed, and immediately changed them back to the original appearance.
Since the elephants and deer changed their legs, more and more animals came to change their legs. No, the goat and the cat came too. Goat for what to change legs with the cat, the original ah, it is so think: if there are four like a cat like short legs, I can not climb to the tree to eat leaves? As for the cat, she was always dissatisfied with her four short legs. She wanted to be a model for a long time, but every time she went to sign up for a competition, people took one look at her legs and refused to let her sign up. Why? Models have to have a pair of long legs.
"You have to think about it carefully, and realize that you can't change back within a year after you change." Owl said.
"Think it over, I want four nimble little legs." Brother Lamb said.
"I want four long model legs so that I am pretty." Sister Kitten said too.
Having just changed his legs, the goat was so happy that he immediately climbed up a big tree and ate the leaves. Everyone gathered around and said, "Look, the goat will be on the tree." The little goat ate the leaves on the tree, can be beautiful.
The kitten sister also finally became a model as she wished, and it won the award in the modeling contest. She is now walking so gracefully that she is like a dancer.
But after a month, they felt as bad as the elephants and deer. The first time I saw this was when I was a kid, and it was the first time I'd ever seen a kid. The goat can always climb trees, and when she comes to the ground, she walks slowly. Whenever she goes out to graze, she can't grab fresh grass. As for the kitten, because her legs are too long and inflexible, she can't catch a single mouse. Everyone laughed at her for being such a good-looking but useless vase.
A year passed, the goat and the kitten also came to the owl's residence, begged it to change their legs back. The owl looked at their thin and emaciated appearance, sighed, and immediately changed them back to their original appearance. Since then, no animal has ever come to the owl to change their legs.
Comment: There is good in everyone. We can't just focus on our own shortcomings and compare our shortcomings to each other's strengths, so we will never be happy.
Sometimes I wonder how to tell this story to a child by saying, "Baby, Mommy wants to ask you a question."
? "Take the test, Mommy."
"How many legs does a kitten have? How many legs does a chick have? How many legs does a pony have? How many legs does a caterpillar have? Today ah, mom will tell you a story about legs. One day, the little animals were all unhappy with their legs. Elephants ......"
Student Essay Writing Guidelines and Divergent Thinking:There are many essay topics that can be written after reading this fairy tale. For example, I want to change my face, I want to change my mom, I want to change my desk. Plot design, on their own face, mom's nagging, naughty table into the dissatisfaction, and then to the dream or really change the regret. The main idea of the article, and ultimately distilled into the human truth can not be replaced.