Naskah Story Telling Contest

CINDERELLA

            Once upon a time, there was a girl named Cinderella who lived with her step mother and two step sisters. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house.

            One day, the two sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.

            “Why are you crying, Cinderella?”, fairy godmother came and asked Cinderella. “Because I want so much to go to the ball”, said Cinderella. Magically, the fairy godmother change a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella! But you must leave before midnight”.

            Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again  and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could, and one her glass slipper was left behind.  

            A few days later, the prince proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the glass slipper. Cinderella’s step sisters tried the slipper, but too small. And finally the prince found Cinderella’s foot which fitted with the slipper. Finally she was driven to the palace. They were married and live happily ever after.

THE RABBIT AND THE TURTLE

            One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so slow. The turtle challenge him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire to the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought. The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. Even if the turtle passed him, he would be able to race to the finish line ahead of him. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.

            However the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere. He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle waiting for him.

THE LION AND THE MOUSE

            Once when a lion asleep, a little mouse began running up and down upon him. This soon wakened the lion, who places his huge paw upon him and opened his big jaws to swallow him

            “pardon, O King!”, cried the mouse, “forgive me this time. I shall never repet it and I shall never forget your kindness. and who knows, I may be able to do you a good turn one of these days?”. The lion was so tickled at the idea of the mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his pas and let it go.

            A few hunters captured the King and tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little mouse seeing the sad plight in which the lion was, ran up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the beast. “was I not right?"

SNOW WHITE

            A long time ago, there was a little princess named Snow White. But her father as married again when her mother died. The new queen was wicked and hate Snow White. She treated Snow White as a servant. Snow White grew very beautiful . the queen felt jealous and every day she asked her magic mirror “who is the fairest in the land?”, the mirror always answered “You are the fairest one of all”. But one day the mirror answered that Snow White was the fairest in the land. The queen ordered the huntsmen to take Snow White into the woods and kill her, but the huntsmen told Snow White to run away because of his kind heart. She fled into a little hut where seven dwarfs lived. When she entered the hut, it is very untidy and she tried to clean up the room. In upstairs she found seven little beds, she was tired and laid on one of them.

            When the dwarfs came home, they were very surprised to find the Snow White. And the seven dwarfs decided to let her stay. The queen knew that Snow White was living and disguising herself as witch. She visited the dwarf’s hut and offered Snow White the poisoned apple. As soon as she bite, she sank into unconsciousness.

            The dwarfs was thinking that she had died and put her in a glass coffin. A few days later a prince found her, and he kissed her. Finally Snow White opened her eyes and sat up with a smile. Everyone was happy. Snow White and the prince married, and live happily ever after.

THE FIRST MONKEYS

            Many years ago, there was a king and queen who lived in Mindanao. The King was cruel an d the queen was greedy. The King collected a lot of money from his people and gave it to the queen to buy expensive food, wine, and clothes.

            One day, the King gave a party in the palace garden. There were six tables placed in the shade of some tall trees. Some people joined the party. Suddenly, an old woman entered the garden. She approached each table and begged for food. No one gave her any, and the King told his guests to chase her away. “Your Majesty, please have a pity on me! I have not eaten any food for several days.” The queen became angry “Go away old woman! This party is only for rich and important people “Chase her away”, the King cried. Everyone chase her.

            Suddenly, there was a great crash of thunder and a bright flash of lighting, the old woman changed into a beautiful girl. “you are not human being!”, she said. “no one wanted to help me. Because of this I shall change you into monkeys!”, she clapped her hands. Immediately the spoon turned into tails and fixed themselves on the back of the king. The beautiful dress and clothes turned into long hair. Their finger and toe grew longer, and they could only chatter like monkeys.

            They ran back to the palace, but the guard chased them away and threw stone at them “go away!”, the guard shouted. They had nowhere to go, so they hid in the forest and hills where they have lived ever since.

THE FIRST BANANA       

            Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl called Maria. She was tall, with black eyes and long shining hair, her skin was a clear light brown. One morning, while she was collecting firewood she met a young man. He looked like a hunter, he was tall and handsome. No one knew who he was or where he came from. Maria liked him. He liked her too.

            Maria did not know this but he was an anito or a spirit from the sky. They became friends but the young man never asked Maria to become his wife.

            “I have no parents or brothers or sisters”, she said “you do too. I am sure we could be happy together”.  “I didn’t want to tell you this, but I am an anito. I can’t marry a human being. I have return to the sky.”, the young man said. Maria was surprised. She did not know what to say. “Please let me go”, said the young man. “I had hoped you would never find out who I am”

            There was a blinding flash of light and the young man disappeared. But Maria was holding on to his hands so tightly, he left them behind. Of course Maria was frightened. She ran home and buried them in her garden. Soon she saw a strange plant growing where she had buried them. The plant grew fast. Then some fruits appeared. It was yellow and shaped like a man’s hand with fingers on it. It was first banana.

WHY MOUNTAINS ARE MADE OF STONE

            Do you know why mountains are made of stone?

            At the beginning of the world, a man named Ekon live in Luzon. He liked to build thing, He thought it would be excellent idea to build a bridge to the sky, he built it of stone, he worked for years. All of his family helped him to build the bridge. But the sky always seemed to be long distance away.

            When Ekon became an old man, his wife and children told him that he would never finish it. “If I can’t finish it, my children’s children will do so”. But just before he died, his wife and children told him that they could not find any stones. So Ekon became very angry and disappointed. He pulled down the bridge, it became tumbling down with a great roar.

The stones made great heaps all over the country. These great heaps of stone are what we now call mountains. Ekon was buried under one of them himself

THE RABBIT AND THE BEAR

            Once upon a time there lived as neighbors, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit was a good hunter, neither was the bear. The bear always asked the rabbit to hunt for him, and the rabbit could not refuse the bear’s demand because of afraid.

            Every week, the rabbit went to the woods to shoot buffaloes. However the bear was very greedy, he did not allow the rabbit to get any meats. Poor rabbit.

            The bear had five children. His wife always gave her youngest boy an extra large piece of meat. Secretly, he would take the meat outside and pretend to play ball with it. Then the baby bear would kick down the meat towards the rabbit’s house. In this way, poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear

THE CLEVER TURTLE

            There was once a king who loved sons and nephews very much. One day, they saw a green turtle near the palace. They thought it was a monster. They started to cry. The king told his servant “Go and kill the monster!”

            The king’s chief cook said “I don’t know what monster it is. Let’s throw into the fire!”, the cook’s wife said “no, I don’t want to waste my firewood. Drop a big rock on the monster and crush it!”

            An old man said, “push him into the sea. There will be storms and it will surely drown.” When the turtle hear this, it shouted “you can burn me or crush me with a rock. But please don’t throw me into the sea. I’m so afraid of drowning in a storm.”

            The king said “The monster is more afraid of the sea than everything else. Throw it into the sea!” the servant threw the turtle into the sea. The clever turtle swam away happily.

THE CAT AND THE FOX

            Once, a cat and a fox were traveling together. As they went along, picking up provisions on the way. A stray mouse here, a fat chicken there. They began an argument.

            “you think you are extremely clever, don’t you?”, said the fox “do you want to know one of my tricks? Why, I know a whole sack full of tricks!”. “Well, I admit I know one trick only, but that one, let me tell you, is worth a thousand of yours!”

            Just then, close by, they heard a hunter’s horn and the yelping of a pack of hounds. In an instant, the cat was up a tree, hiding a mong the leaves. “this is my trick”, he called to the fox. “now let me see what yours are worth.”

            But the fox had so many plans for escape that he could not decide which one to try first. He dodged here and there with the hounds at his heels. He doubled on his tracks, he ran at top speed, he enter a dozen burrows, but all in vain. The hounds caught him, and soon put an end to the boaster and all his tricks.

FINAL TEXT

MAGICAL APPLE

           

            Once upon a time, there was a poor young man who lived in a village. He was a kind person. This young man liked helping people. One day when he was going to cross a river, an old woman was going to cross the river too. The woman was too weak to walk so he took the woman on his back and brought her to her house. The woman thanked and gave him an apple.

            On his way, the man was very hungry, he ate the apple the woman gave him. Suddenly, he heard someone saying “I have something in my stomach. It was queen’s ring”. He returned around and to his surprise he saw two ducks talking. The man realized now that he could understand the animal’s language after eating the apple. He quickly caught the duck and killed it. He took the queen’s ring from its stomach. The following day, he went to the palace and gave the ring back to the queen. The queen was very happy to find her ring again. She gave the young man a lot of presents. The young man became wealthy. Then he married a beautiful girl and live happily ever after.