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<br /><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Once upon a time, there lived a family of crows in an old banyan tree at the edge of a forest.   They had lived there for ages and were very happy.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">However, their h<a href="http://knowin.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/crow.jpg" style="color: #2089cc; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-972" src="http://knowin.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/crow.jpg?w=510" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline; float: left; height: auto !important; margin: 4px 15px 15px 0px; max-width: 98%; padding: 5px;" title="crow" /></a>appiness was not to last much longer. Along black snake came and made his home in a hole at the bottom of the tree.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">When the crows left their nest in search of food, the wicked snake crawled up the tree and ate up the eggs.  Mama Crow had laid.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">When the crows returned, they were shocked to find their eggs missing.  This happened quite a few times and then Mama Crow said, “Tomorrow, I will stay back and guard my eggs. You must bring some food back for me.”</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">So, the next morning, Mama Crow stayed back. However, the snake still came up.  Mama Crow screamed, “Shoo</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">When Papa Crow returned, he found his wife weeping bitterly. “What is it? What happened?” he asked.  Mama Crow replied, “We must leave our beloved home. There’s a horrible snake who steals our eggs. Even today he took all our eggs!”</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The Papa Crow thought for a while and said, “We cannot leave our home. We must chase the snake away instead. Let’s go to Grandma crow. She is wise and will advice us.”  So the Crows flew to a nearby tree where Grandma crow lived.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">They told her their sorry tale and said, “Please Grandma, we need your help.”  The Grandma crow thought for a while and said, “I have a plan but you must do exactly as i say for it to work.”  “We will!” replied the crows eagerly.<a href="http://knowin.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/snake.jpg" style="color: #2089cc; outline: none;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-973 alignright" src="http://knowin.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/snake.jpg?w=510" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); display: inline; float: right; height: auto !important; margin: 4px 0px 15px 15px; max-width: 98%; padding: 5px;" title="snake" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">“Every morning, the queen and her maids come to the river nearby to bathe. They leave their jewelry on the bank in the care of some servants.  You must steal a necklace and attract the attention of the servants so that they chase you.”</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The next morning, Papa Crow carried out Grandma’s plan. He stole the necklace and dropped it into the snake’s hole.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">When the servants tried taking the necklace out of the hole, the snake was disturbed and came out. They were scared and beat the snake to death.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">And so, Mama and Papa Crow were rid of their wicked enemy and lived happily ever after.</div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="embed-youtube" style="display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="317" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HgAInQYKKk0?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" style="max-width: 100%;" type="text/html" width="510"></iframe></span></div><div style="background-color: #fffdfe; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: right;">ดาวน์โหลด <a href="http://www.4shared.com/audio/LXVJdSo7/English_Talking_Book_-_The_Cro.html" style="color: #2089cc; outline: none;">The crow and The snake.mp3</a></div>

The crow and the snake : อีกากับงู

Once upon a time, there lived a family of crows in an old banyan tree at the edge of a forest. They had lived there for ages and were very...

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<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.karn.tv/images/stories/tale/tell_en/6-1.gif" /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Once upon a time in a great castle, a Prince's daughter grew up happy and contented, in spite of a jealous stepmother. She was very pretty, with blue eyes and long black hair. Her skin was delicate and fair, and so she was called Snow White.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Though her stepmother was a wicked woman, she too was very beautiful, and a magic mirror told her this every day, whenever she asked it. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the loveliest lady in the land?" The reply was always; "You are, your Majesty," until the dreadful day when she heard it say, "Snow White is the loveliest in the land." The stepmother was furious and, wild with jealousy, began plotting to get rid of her. Calling one of her servants, she bribed him with a rich reward to take Snow White into the forest, far away from the castle. Then, unseen, he was to put her to death. The greedy servant, attracted to the reward, agreed to do this deed, and he led the sweet little girl away. However, when they came to the fatal spot, the man's courage betrayed him and, leaving Snow White sitting beside a tree, he mumbled an excuse and ran off. Snow White was thus left all alone in the forest.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Night came, but the servant did not return. Snow White, alone in the dark forest, began to cry bitterly. She thought she could feel terrible eyes spying on her, and she heard strange sounds and rustlings that made her heart thump. At last, overcome by tiredness, she fell asleep curled under a tree.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Snow White slept fitfully, wakening from time to time with a start and staring into the darkness round her. Several times, she thought she felt something, or somebody touch her as she slept.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">At last, dawn woke the forest to the song of the birds, and Snow White too, awoke. A whole world was stirring to life and the little girl was glad to see how silly her fears had been. However, the thick trees were like a wall round her, and as she tried to find out where she was, she came upon a path. She walked along it, till she came to a clearing. There stood a strange cottage, with a tiny door, tiny windows and a tiny chimney pot. Everything about the cottage was much tinier than it ought to be. Snow White pushed the door open.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"l wonder who lives here?" she said to herself, peeping round the kitchen. "What tiny plates! And spoons! There must be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">seven of them, the table's laid for seven people." Upstairs was a bedroom with seven neat little beds. Going back to the kitchen, Snow White had an idea.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"I'll make them something to eat. When they come home, they'll be glad to find a meal ready." Towards dusk, seven tiny men marched homewards singing. But when they opened the door, to their surprise they found a bowl of hot steaming soup on the table. Upstairs was Snow White, fast asleep on one of the beds. The chief dwarf prodded her gently.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Who are you?" he asked. Snow White told them her sad story, and tears sprang to the dwarfs' eyes. Then one of them said, as he noisily blew his nose:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Stay here with us!"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Hooray! Hooray!" they cheered, dancing joyfully round the little girl. The dwarfs said to Snow White:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"You can live here and tend to the house while we're down the mine. Don't worry about your stepmother leaving you in the forest. We love you and we'll take care of you!" Snow White gratefully accepted their hospitality, and next morning the dwarfs set off for work. But they warned Snow White not to open the door to strangers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Meanwhile, the servant had returned to the castle, with the heart of a roe deer. He gave it to the cruel stepmother, telling her it belonged to Snow White, so that he could claim the reward. Highly pleased, the stepmother turned again to the magic mirror. But her hopes were dashed, for the mirror replied: "The loveliest in the land is still Snow White, who lives in the seven dwarfs' cottage, down in the forest." The stepmother was beside herself with rage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"She must die! She must die!" she screamed. Disguising herself as an old peasant woman, she put a poisoned apple with the others in her basket. Then, taking the quickest way into the forest, she crossed the swamp at the edge of the trees. She reached the bank unseen, just as Snow White stood waving goodbye to the seven dwarfs on their way to the mine.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Snow White was in the kitchen when she heard the sound at the door: KNOCK! KNOCK!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Who's there?" she called suspiciously, remembering the dwarfs advice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"I'm an old peasant woman selling apples," came the reply.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"I don't need any apples, thank you," she replied.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"But they are beautiful apples and ever so juicy!" said the velvety voice from outside the door.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"I'm not supposed to open the door to anyone," said the little girl, who was reluctant to disobey her friends.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"And quite right too! Good girl! If you promised not to open up to strangers, then of course you can't buy. You are a good girl indeed!" Then the old woman went on.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"And as a reward for being good, I'm going to make you a gift of one of my apples!" Without a further thought, Snow White opened the door just a tiny crack, to take the apple.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"There! Now isn't that a nice apple?" Snow White bit into the fruit, and as she did, fell to the ground in a faint: the effect of the terrible poison left her lifeless instantly.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now chuckling evilly, the wicked stepmother hurried off. But as she ran back across the swamp, she tripped and fell into the quicksand. No one heard her cries for help, and she disappeared without a trace.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Meanwhile, the dwarfs came out of the mine to find the sky had grown dark and stormy. Loud thunder echoed through the valleys and streaks of lightning ripped the sky. Worried about Snow White they ran as quickly as they could down the mountain to the cottage.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">There they found Snow White, lying still and lifeless, the poisoned apple by her side. They did their best to bring her alive, but it was of no use.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">They wept and wept for a long time. Then they laid her on a bed of rose petals, carried her into the forest and put her in a crystal coffin.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Each day they laid a flower there.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Then one evening, they discovered a strange young man admiring Snow White's lovely face through the glass. After listening to the story, the Prince (for he was a prince!) made a suggestion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"If you allow me to take her to the Castle, I'll call in famous doctors to waken her from this peculiar sleep. She's so lovely I'd love to kiss her!" He did, and as though by magic, the Prince's kiss broke the spell. To everyone's astonishment, Snow White opened her eyes. She had amazingly come back to life! Now in love, the Prince asked Snow White to marry him, and the dwarfs reluctantly had to bid good bye to Snow White.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #003333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">From that day on, Snow White lived happily in a great castle. But from time to time, she was drawn back to visit the little cottage down in the forest, to her dwarf friends.</span>