How Monkeys Got Their Red Bottoms
Once upon a time, there was a village called
Dancing.
A group of young girls and boys lived in that
village.
Every night after dinner, they would light
a fire and dance around it.
One evening a monkey came to the dance, wearing
smart clothes and a stylish hat.
He came and sat in a corner on a stone.
No one recognised that he was a monkey.
He also played melodious music with his drums.
Every night, the monkey would come and play
and the girls dance with him happily.
The girls loved him more each day.
They also started showering him with gifts.
One of them gave him a ring, the other gave
him cookies The boys were extremely jealous,
as the attention of all the girls was always
focused on the monkey.
“Who is this new fellow and what is he doing
in our village?” the boys asked one another
and decided to keep a close eye on him.
That night they watched him quietly from a
distance.
The boys simply could not believe their eyes
when they saw that the person the girls loved
so much was a monkey in reality.
It had a hairy body and a long tail.
That night the guys laughed their hearts out
and finally slept peacefully.
The boys decided to play a prank on the monkey.
They burnt some wood and put it around the
stone where the monkey sat every day, and
covered it with leaves.
Like every evening the monkey came and sat
on its usual place, only this time it did
not feel the same.
“OOOUUUUCHHHH!” screamed the monkey and
jumped up from its seat.
The hot stone had burnt his bottom through
his pants.
The monkey jumped into a bucket full of water
to comfort himself.
The boys laughed at the girls for falling
for a monkey and told them how they had taught
him a lesson.
When the girls got to know what the boys had
done, they scolded the boys and said that
it didn't matter if he was a monkey or a boy.
What mattered was, that he was a kind soul
and a good friend.
They asked the boys to go and apologize to
the monkey.
But it was too late.
The monkey had already left the village to
never come back.
Ever since, monkeys have had red bottoms.
