The Mosquitoes

My children always ask me about mosquito,
They ask me why rhe mosquito sing in our ears,
They ask me why they keep biting us?
I dont have any idea about this but i want to share a story about mosquito.

One night, long ago, when the world was just beginning, the land now known as the Philippines was ruled by a great monkey king, Amu-ai, who was a kind and generous ruler. One night, just as he lay down to sleep, he heard a terrible sound outside his palace windows.

Beside the palace a river flowed, and in the bush surrounding the river the frogs began to sing. They sang so loudly and so long that soon their song sounded to the tired king like nothing more than shrieks and cries. On and on the sounds went, deep into the night.

At last the king could bear the noise no longer. Amu-ai ran to his window and called to the leader of the frogs, "Come here at once! What is the meaning of this noise? How am I expected to sleep?"

The leader of the frogs bowed low. "I am so sorry, King Amu-ai," he humbly croaked. "I apologize for all of us, but believe me, this is not our fault."

"And whose fault is it then?" the king asked.

"The turtles," the frog leader answered.

"What have they done?" the king asked.

"They are crawling with their homes upon their backs, sir. Every one of them trundles along, and they are so heavy, and so many, that the bank is crumbling beneath them. Pieces are tumbling into our river. We are crying out to them to stop! We fear for our lives!"

"I understand," said the king, "I will speak to the leader of the turtles."

The king summoned the leader of the turtles to his palace. In he trundled, slow and heavy, his house upon his back.

"What is the meaning of this?" the king asked. "Why do you carry your homes when you travel? Can't you see how heavy you are, and how you've frightened the frogs?"

"I beg our king's pardon," said the leader of the turtles. He spoke as slowly as he walked, and his eyes welled with tears, for he did not wish to dishonor his king, and he had never wanted to disturb the frogs. "But I must tell you, we fear losing our homes if we leave them. The fireflies are everywhere, and they carry their fires with them. Just look!"

Together they peered out into the night, and the king saw thousands of tiny torches, so many that it seemed to him the riverbank might at any moment catch fire.

"I forgive you," said King Amu-ai to the turtles' leader, "and I will summon the leader of the fireflies to ask him what he means by this."

He shouted into the night, and a moment later the leader of the fireflies, his fire put out, swept through his window. "You frighten us all," said Amu-ai. "What do you mean by threatening the turtles' safety with your fires?"

"I beg your pardon, Amu-ai," the leader of the fireflies said, as he fluttered his wings fast and furiously. "We must carry our fires with us, for the mosquitoes have invaded our kingdom, and they outnumber us. When they fly into our homes, their swarms are so thick, they threaten to smother us. We are only protecting ourselves."

"You are forgiven then," said Amu-ai, and he called upon the leader of the mosquitoes.

"Why?" asked the king. "Why would you invade your fellow creatures' homes? Don't you realize the fireflies will protect themselves with fire, and when they carry fire, they risk burning down the houses of the turtles, and don't you understand that if the turtles go rumbling across the land carrying their houses with them, the riverbank will crumble and crush our frogs? Please, stop all this trouble."

The leader of the mosquitoes bowed low just as the others had, but he shook his head. "I beg the king's forgiveness," he said, "but the real troublemakers are the crabs. They try to bite us, and they are so much larger than we that our only defense is to seek other shelter. You must speak to the leader of the crabs."

"Go find him and bring him to me," King Amu-ai commanded. "I will speak to him."

The leader of the mosquitoes set off at once, and on his way he gathered his brothers and sisters, his uncles and aunts and cousins, and they in turn called to all their relatives. Soon thousands and thousands of mosquitoes were flying through the land, searching for the leader of the crabs, calling to him, "You are called to see the king!"

Hearing the mosquitoes' racket, the crabs hid from sight, burrowing deep under the ground in their holes. To this day, the mosquitoes search for the leader of the crabs. They fly everywhere. They search in every hole and hiding place that they can find, and in their furious journey, they have learned to imitate the biting crabs. If you get in their way, you will be bitten, too!

Source : https://www.uexpress.com/tell-me-a-story/2000/5/28/the-mosquitoes-search-a-tale-from

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