Short Story for Boys and girls written by: Obed Madrid Calvo.
A gnome that was living in the forest, was at home boiling chestnuts with his cooking pot to cook the soup he really liked.
Then, his friend, Mr.Snail appeared at the window and called him.
- “Good morning happy gnome” – greeted the snail.
- “Hello Mr.Snail, do you want to taste my chestnut soup?” – said de gnome.
- “Mmm, smells really nice!”- the snail accepted.
Mr. Snail told the gnome about a place in the field where were many chestnuts.
- “I found lots of them yesterday, when I went for a walk” – told the snail to the happy gnome.
The snail and the gnome finished their delicious breakfast and went to collect more chestnuts to have dinner together.
There were not more chestnuts when they arrived. Somebody had collected them before.
- “There are no more chestnuts left! where are they? where are they?!” – Screamed the angry gnome.
-”Don´t worry, I´m sure there are more somewhere near here, let´s have a look”.
They were searching for the chestnuts around the forest when started raining, looked for a place to shelter and found a little wooden house. The door was open and they were wet, so the gnome said:
- “Let´s get in, nobody is inside”
-”We can´t get in without being invited” – replied the snail.
But the happy gnome did not want to get more wet, so put the snail over his shoulders and got into the house.
- “Mr.Snail! look! the chestnuts of the forest!” – the happy gnome exclaimed.
- “But somebody took them before, these aren´t ours”
But the gnome wanted all the chestnuts for him, took the sack and began to walk under the rain.
Suddenly, a lightning broke the branch of a tree, and fell on the happy gnome. Mr.Snail, who was following him, tried to help him, but the branch was too big.
Then, a wise little rabbit appeared. He had seen what had happenned at the wooden house, and helped him to get rid of the branch.
-”Maybe, none of this would have happened if you had not taken those chestnuts, that are not yours”
- “These chestnuts are mine, I have collected them!” – the gnome insisted.
Seeing that the gnome was not thinking, the rabbit took him back to the little wooden house.
-”Look, happy gnome, look through the window” – said the rabbit to the gnome.
He obeyed and looked through the window, he saw a little mom rabbit, sitting at the table with her three kids. They were sad because there was barely nothing on their plates.
-”The mom rabbit had collected those chestnuts for dinner, and now they only have four pieces of bread; meanwhile, you have there enough chestnuts for everyone” – said the wise rabbit.
-”Yes!happy gnome!” – exclaimed Mr.Snail -”You can cook chestnut soup for everyone!”
The happy gnome realized that he had done wrong. So went inside the house and apologized to the mom rabbit. As she noticed that the gnome was repentant, forgave him and accepted Mr.Snail´s idea”.
They all had the happy gnome´s delicious soup for dinner. Ate, laughed, played…and that is how they became friends.
THE END
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