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Rated: E · Short Story · Family · #1744116
Bored? read this to entertain yourself. :) Enjoy
I was sitting down outside my house when the kids next door came up to me and asked me
"Grandpa, could you tell us a story?"

"Sure, sure," I replied,

" A long time ago, there was a kid named Billy who was known as the laziest kid of all but he is wise and clever. There is so much happening in his life.

One day, he comes upon an apple tree bearing ripe fruit. Being too slothful to climb the tree and take the fruits, he instead decides to lie beneath the tree and let gravity do its work. There he remained, waiting for the fruit to fall into his gaping mouth. The apple eventually fell into his mouth and he went back home with a grin on his face.

As soon as Billy gets home, he was instructed by his mother to purchase mud crabs at the market. Being too lazy to carry them home, he sets them free in a ditch and tells them to go on home, as he would be along later. His mother immediately asked him where the crabs were, and he replied that the crabs was on the way to their house. A couple of minutes later, the crabs started walking directly into his house, entering from the door to the living room then to the kitchen. His mother was shocked and decided that Billy should find a bride so he will be lazy no more. He then asks his mother what sort of woman should he look for. His mother replies "a woman of a few words."

Three days later, Billy searches long and hard, but all the women he encounters seem to talk too much. Finally, he comes upon a house where an old woman and her daughter live. Upon seeing the girl, he proposes "Will you marry me?" The girl simply stares at him. He tells himself, "Ah, here is a woman of a few words," and lifts her up and takes her back to his mother. His mother chastises him, for he had brought back a corpse.

A couple of years later, he changed and now living a good life with his family



the end"

"aweee, Where is he right now?" the kids asked
"He is right here, telling you the story"
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