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DWARFISH DOG
There was a man who fed a dog who could give him all kinds of service. One
day the man went to work in the field, but before he left his house, he
had told his wife to let the dog carry the food for him in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, when his wife had finished cooking she tied the basket
of food to the dog's neck and told him to carry it to his master.
The dog
ran towards the field where his master worked, but when he was half way
from home, there flowed a small river which was not shallow enough to be
crossed by walking. And as there was no boat there, and the dog could not
avoid it, he began to swim across the river, for it was mid-day and almost
lunchtime. When the dog swam across the river, the food became soaked in
water.
But he ran straight to his master.
The master untied the basket from the neck of the dog and opened it. On
seeing that the food was soaked in water, he was very angry with the dog
and struck him with a stick. The dog was annoyed with his master and
thought " I am very powerful, but the stick is much more powerful
than I am. He hit me, so I had better pray to the god to change my body
into a stick. Please change me into a stick! "
When the dog prayed to the god he came and changed the dog into a stick as
he wished. The stick dog flew everywhere and hit everyone. All the people
were annoyed with the stick-dog, then they asked the god to change the
stick, so the god made fire to burn the stick-dog. When the stick-dog saw
fire burning him, he thought that fire was much more powerful than the
stick, then he begged the god to change him into fire.
The god changed the
dog into fire as he wished. The fire-dog spread everywhere burnt
everything. The world was very angry with the fire-dog, then they asked the god to
weaken it. The god brought down rain to stop the power of the fire. The
fire-dog thought that fire was not as powerful as rain, so he begged the
god to change his body into rain.
The god changed the dog into rain as he wished. The rain-dog played havoc
with agriculture. The world was very angry with rain, then
they told the god to weaken the rain. The god brought wind to stop the
rain. The rain-dog was over powered by the wind, then he begged the god to
change him into wind. The god changed the dog into wind as he wished.
When the dog became wind, he blew every thing away, uprooted trees,
destroyed boats, houses and kill many people. The world was very angry
with the wind-dog and they asked the god to check wind. Then a hillock was
put up before him. The wind-dog could destroy everything but could not
destroy the hillock. The dog thought that the hillock was more powerful
than he, then he asked the god to change him into a hillock. The god
changed him into a hillock as he wished.
When the dog was made a hillock, the buffalo gored and destroyed him, then
the dog begged the god to change him into a buffalo as he wished. When the
dog became a buffalo, people could not use him, because he was very strong
cord running through his nose. As the buffalo-dog could not break the cord
he thought that the cord was more powerful than a buffalo, so he asked the
god to change him into a cord. The god changed him into a cord as he
wished.
The god changed the buffalo-dog into a cord but later there came a
dwarfish dog near the cord and ate up the cord, because it was made of
leather. When the cord-dog saw that a dwarfish dog was more powerful than
he, then he asked the god to change him again into a dwarfish dog. The god
changed the cord-dog into a dwarfish dog as the cord-dog wished.
The cord-dog became again a dwarfish dog that he had been in the
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