CUCKOO BIRD

Once upon the time, there were two orphan siblings living near the foot of a mountain. Since their parents died, the both orphans were very miserable. The elder brother was very kind to his sister and took care of her all the time. Every day the brother always went to look for the potatoes for their food.

When the potato was boiled well, the brother orphan generally cut the head and the end of potato to eat and passed the middle part to his sister. One day, his sister wondered why he did this, so she said to her brother, "Hey brother! Let me eat the head and the end of potato this time". "No, sister! Those parts are not delicious," he told his sister. She thought to herself, "my brother is very mean, having good food, he eats alone."

The next day, he prepared himself to dig potatoes as usual. Suddenly his sister sobbed behind him and groaned, "Brother! I don't want to stay at home, let me go with you, too."

Although he implored her, she insisted to go with him. He consoled her, "Sister! Please stop crying. I don't want to see you crying any more. Of course, I take you with me this time and stop crying!"

He took his sister's hand and walked across the field and through the forests very far away under the beam of sun light. Sooner or later, they came to a forest, he turned to his sister and said, "It is very strange today. We walk nearly a whole morning, but we can't find out any potato". Both brother and sister kept walking on, and then they found out a bunch of potatoes.

They started digging around the potatoes. When the girl saw a big potato, then she thought, "This potato is very big. When it is boiled well, how delicious it will be". While imagining, her brother dug out the deep hole until the end of potato.

Then he pulled out the potato. Suddenly the land was collapsed down and covered his head into the hole. At that time, his sister didn't see him falling into the hole, she supposed that her brother played a trick on her. So she carried the potato and ran first without looking back.

On the way home, she ran and stopped, ran and stopped until she got home. She rushed to wash the potato and boiled it. When it was well cooked, she cut the head and the end of potato to eat. Just eating a little bit, she spitted the potato out and said with tears, "Ah! This one is not delicious at all. It is very crispy and bitter taste. It is not tender like the middle part. What is my brother said is really not wrong".

Then she felt conscious that she thought her brother was not good. Now she made her strong decision that when her brother came back, she had to obey and respect him all the time. Thinking so, she sat up in front of, t he house to wait for her brother. She was very upset while };he was waiting for her brother a whole day.

At night she sat by the fire to get rid of her fear. She waited for a full night, but her brother didn't come back. She shed tear with despair. She tried to look at everything in a silent situation. She could not stand any more because she had never lost her brother such a long time before.

She could not stop her fear, so she went out to look for her brother with sorrow. She made her effort to find him everywhere in the forest. She cried and shouted, "Brother! Where are you? Do you hear me? You are my life. I can't live without you. You must come back to me." She ran up and down from one bush to another bush without eating and drinking, and she got lost in the forest alone.

She tried to look for her brother for a few days, but what had happened could not return at all. Her brother could not hear her. He had suffocated in the soil. He could no longer take care of his lovely sister. Because she was starved for many days, she was very exhausted, and then she fainted in the forest.

Because of her misfortune, while she just fainted, her soul came out to be born as "cuckoo" since then. Therefore in every dry season when people dig the potatoes, the cuckoo always cries, "Tohou ... " every day. This is the sound she cries for her brother. That is why the sound of cuckoo is heard and its sound is heard louder and louder in dry season until today.

- The END -

ANGER GETS DAMAGED, ANGER GETS LOSS AND ANGER GETS WRONG.