div-Wua-eUb-dka-jtuld
  

raU-zid-Hwb

wNa-Lfn: tYs-Ek-Ebk, jjShx-Lfn: jjes HE-eK-rcia


Sla-Dp 1

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Wca-FI:

eI-tiv-QUh-RNa-lbka-jVia-qk-ek-lis-dPf qcd-whk-qK-jFoJk-Hfh-GEh-ep-fI-wpf-dhls-WIeiv vbla-Dpg-Shls-Hfh-jaiJa-eNs jqugl-Grh-jwoJk-GF-sbkn xbca jjtK eI-Qif-fp-wyJa.


WiJs-raygs xp-aod-wpJ-Whka-LS-raygs Fiv-BUb-jDPs-SoJa-Hxh.
xia-eogs-eNs-Rhls
“xp-vm? xp-vm? QUh-FK-Ebcn-whln-Hfh,
whln-Hwb-lld-xk-rabcn-GrnbA figs-Dpg-jria
xia-vmg-jVia-jtugls-SK-rtod Sla-xia-lld doJa-Foa-jsa.
whln-Bkd-qid-Qbla whln-jRif-cNd rtkn-qm-jjthc,
Chk-whln-Zua-aigs-BUb-apJ, Wos-vmg-Sbks-rnis div-Cud-jjRhc.”

There once was a lazy bird, up in a tree
who said,
Please, please won’t someone feel sorry for me?
I’ve laid a large egg. Quite large, as you see,
and it wasn’t much fun, when it came out of me!
I need a vacation. I’ve done enough work.
If I sit here much more, I’ll go simply berserk!”



Dia-Gf-aiJa raU-ahln Eug aU-aU dmg-qkn-Cos nbks-dkn-xk,
aod-wpJ-Whka dmg-DI-Dbk Cla-rkn-GF cUb-cbk.

aks-rkn-GF-jjRs-wyJa vkf-nkcA rahk-jrsok-Eod-sod.
aU-aU jspn-rahk-jvPgs jjthc-Ckx: “jRpn! jVia-rnis-vm aks-aod?”

Then a small friendly mouse, known as Nuu-Nuu, walked by,
with a book in her bag, and that bird gave a sigh.

The bird’s sigh was so loud, and so sad, and so long,
that Nuu-Nuu looked up, and asked, “Hey, there, what’s wrong?”



aod-wpJ-Whka dK-qPv-Sk-xPvA, lox-n{x qhlx-Did-Dkn,
“rkd-jFoJk ek-xkf-Ebcn-whln-Hfh xia-Wos-FK-fp-rtkn,
dK-tY-ak-zid-Hwb jjDa-whln-Fid-vyf rtu foa-dcbk-nPgs-fp.
qNs-jjSb-Vpa-wyJa-xk-jDPs-qpJ, whln-FK-HV-Dia-Dp.”

“jjSb-cbk-Hwb RP! RP!” aU-aU-roc. “xia-rabcn-Grnb-lYhx-tYhx!
ebca-whln jVia-qNs-raU, Wos-dlf-Hwb-aiJa vmg-rYhx!”

The bird fluttered her eyelids, then asked with a smile,
“Do you think you could come help me out for a while?
Please come sit on my egg, for an hour or so.
Just climb right on up here, and then I can go.”

“But that egg,” Nuu-Nuu laughed, “it’s as big as a blimp!
And me, I’m a mouse, my friends call me ‘Shrimp!’”



“whln-RUh! LS-jFoJk-ahln” aod-jcoJk. “jjSb-vmg-xp-via-rk,
wm-jc-tk-HV-rt{a-Wkc-fNc whln-dmg-xk.
rabcn-Hwb Wos-FK-vmg-Dia-jBia jqkK-jVia-tK-fU-Rhla jjxba-vm,
Fogs-BUb-Chk-vyf-fNc jxugl-whln-div-xk jFoJk-HV-Ltf vmg-Shls-tm.”

aU-aU-jcoJk: “whln-nPa-fp-FK-Ebcn-jFoJk Fid-Wkc-raygs,
jjSb-wK-aK-aigs whln-wm-lbka-VyJx Grh-rkn-Wckx-jWigs-Sys.
aigs-BUb-thk xia-rahk-jvugl, jjSb-lbka-VyJx xia-xbca-rtkn.
whln-xp-VyJx-roc-Grxb jjtK Bkd-lbka Grh-Qbla-Wkn.”

“lbka-Ltf!” aod-jcoJk, “jFoJk-FK-Rhls-jqs rtu jjEbc-Qhk-dmg-Hfh!
jjSb-Rpv-wyJa-xk-fNc-apJ jqkK-whln-zhkc-Dpg-FK-HV!”

“whln-FK-jRif” aU-aU-jcoJk. “Fogs-rxiJa-GF Bbk-Hfh-dis-coa-lpd.
whln-FK-vmg-HV-Ge wK-aK-jFoJk lld-HV-qu-Vpd.”

“I know you’re not big,” the bird said, “That’s okay.
I just need a short time now, to go off and play.
But the egg won’t get cold. It’s hot season, you know,
I’ll be back very soon. When I’m back, you can go.”

Nuu-Nuu said, “I’d be happy, to help out a bit.
Let me ask just one thing: Can I read, while I sit?
Because sitting is dull, but reading is not.
And I’m eager to read this new book that I’ve got.”

“You can read,” said the bird, “you can knit, you can sew,
But please! Hurry up! I’m itching to go!”

“I’ll do it,” said Nuu-Nuu. “You can trust me with things.
I promise to stay, while you go stretch your wings.”



jjSb dbla-WI-jcoJk-eYf-Dhkn-wls aU-aU FK-Fov-HV
aod-dmg-DK-nka-vPa-wyJa jjtK jjlba-tos-Dks-DPf-GSh.

aks-aod ria-xk-n{x, wK-aK-Dpg-dI-tis-vPa-rap,
“qov-dia-Grxb” aks-Rhls-Geb jjtK aks-dmg-jcoJk-Smg-cbk...

But before the last word had quite left Nuu-Nuu’s mouth
The bird flew right straight up, and she then headed south.

And she gave a big smile, as she flew from the tree.
“See you later!” she chirped, and then she said...



“vks-Dp...”
apJ-Wu-WI-jcoJk-Dis-rxof jjtK WI-jcoJk-eYf-Dhkn Dpg-aod-jcoJk,
aks-jcoJk-eNs-ahln, Wbln jjtK jvok.
eNs-aiJa-Wbln-rtkn Foa aU-aU zis-jjthc-eiv-eoa,
aU-aU Hfh-jjSb-WPf-cbk aks-aod-FK-div-xk Ga-lpd-vmg-foa.

Maybe.”
But that last word she said, that last word of all,
she said in a whisper, so quiet and so small
That the sound never got to the ears of Nuu-Nuu,
Who thought she’d be done in an hour or two.



wK-aK-raygs-Qbka-HV aU-aU aigs-lbka-VyJx BUb-civ-civ,
jjSb-jjax-jvPgs-jDugl-Gf aks-aod-dmg-nis-vmg-Dia-div.
aks-lbka-lpd-rahln-raygs jjthc-dmg-BYf dPa-wls-rcka
Foa aU-aU lbka-VyJx-Fov aks-aod-dmg-nis-vmg-div-vhka.
Sk-jcia-tiv-wlv-zhk aU-aU rtiv jjtK Suga-wyJa-Ga-Sla-jEoJk.
aks-jjax-jvPgs-lpd-jDugl-raygs, jjSb-aod dmg-vmg-div-Wu-jdogk.

Nuu-Nuu sat for a while, and she read from her book,
But the bird was still gone, when she stood up to look.
She read a bit more, then she stopped for a snack.
When she finished her book, the bird still wasn’t back.
The sun set. Nuu-Nuu slept. Then she woke up at dawn.
She looked once again, but the bird was still gone.



HW-jjSb-jRula-BUb-Gdh, aU-aU jtpn-jlpJa-lhkn Grh-xk-jjcb,
“VyJx-jdogk-lbka-Fov-jjthc jlok-VyJx-Grxb xk-Grh-jjfb.”

vmg-foa aks-dmg-Hfh-lbka-VyJx roc-Dp-els, ekx jjtK epg.
“jxugl-Gf-am?” aks-WPf. “aod-LS-aiJa Fygs-FK-div-xk-qpJ.”

Nuu-Nuu’s home was nearby, so she called to her brother,
“I’m all done with my book. Could you bring me another?”

Soon she read that book too, and a third, and a fourth.
“So when,” she kept wondering, “will that bird fly back north?”



aks-aod-BUb-Ge? aks-dI-tis-eI-tka-GF jjtK xp-Wckx-eYd.
“whln-FK-vPa-jRif-rnis?” aod-jcoJk. “dka-tbls-jRul jjea-eK-raYd,
whln-Wca-aigs-Eox-cPc-Smg-HV Grh-Qbla-Wkn-Wckx-DYd.”

And where was the bird? She was starting to gloat.
She said, “Why should I fly? I would much rather float.”
Which she did. In a chair on a Mekong Cruise boat.



ebca aU-aU xp-jjSb-lbka-div-lbka SK-rtlf-nkx,
rabcn-Hwb-jVia-figs jRula-Woc, rhls-ala jjtK rhls-aO.

rhls-aO!?!? Vif-LD¾...!
“jjSb-whln-FK-Shls-jRif-Smg-HV.”
aU-aU aks-jld-wls-jRok-jcoJk,
raU-ahln-Dpg-jRok-jEugl-GF-Hfh.

And so Nuu-Nuu just sat there. She read and she read.
That egg was her kitchen, her bathroom, her bed.

Her bathroom!?!? Oh, Phew!
“But I do what I must,”
said Nuu-Nuu, our hero,
a mouse you can trust.


tK-fU-jjths-xk-jCPs, wpJ-ZYba-VPc-wyJa SK-rtlf-jc-tk.
VPc-xk-SPf-QPc-rais aU-aU, SPf-Qox jjtK SPf-woa-Sk.

aU-aU SoJx-aO-Ek jjtK SiJs-Fld-Bls-jDPs-Hwb.
jjthc-Fogx-cbk: “aod-vmg-RUh-vm? xia-dkn-jc-tk-rtkn-jjthc-Hf½!”

The dry season came. Sand and dust filled the air.
It got on her skin, in her eyes, in her hair.

Nuu-Nuu boiled up some tea, then set down her cup,
And asked, “Doesn’t she know, that her hour is UP?”



jjSb-aod-wpJ-Whka vmg-Hfh-eoa-GF jjtK vmg-Hfh-dis-coa.
aks-dI-tis-aigs-jjVs-Eos-Qox Grh-skx-dcbk-DYd-Woa.

eI-tiv-aod vmg-xp-Lxs jjtK vmg-Hfh-eoa div-jc-tk.
aks-eoa-jjSb Fld-jrtoJk Dpg-cks-BUb-Smg-rahk.

wK-aK-fugx, aod-dmg-jcoJk: “div-vm ...? ly!.. vmg-div-fp-dcbk!
jjac-Gf Hwb-dmg-jVia-wls-jRok, Rpv-fugx-jrtoJk-Grh-jxok-xoc.
jjtK-whln-FK-vmg-div-HV-aigs-Hwb vbla-raU-ahln-nbNc-Geb Grh-jFiv-roc.”

But that bird didn’t know. That bird didn’t care.
She just sat on the cruise boat, arranging her hair.

For the bird had no watch. She had no sense of time.
What she had was a drink, full of vodka and lime.

And she said, as she sipped: “Go back? No indeed!
She can have that old egg. This drink’s what I need!
I am not going to sit, where that silly mouse peed.”



Smg-xk, aU-aU WPf-cbk via-rk-wls-aks Hfh-Qbka-qoJa.
jxugl-tK-fU-rakc-jwoJk-xk, jRif-Grh aU-aU jdpf-dis-coa.

aks-Hfh-eia-nk-jjthc-cbk FK-Rid-ek-Hwb Grh-div-aod.
“jjSb-FK-jRif-jjac-Gf? Hwb-FK-lYba” aU-aU jcoJk Bbks-jeoJk-Led.
“jqugl-Rid-ek-rabcn-Hwb, whln-FK-Shls-jRif-Grh-fp dcbk-apJ,
jjSb-rabcn-Hwb qif-Grnb-qP-tyd, ebca-doJa-whln-qif-xp-jjSb-Dmg-apJ.”

For a time, Nuu-Nuu thought that her problems were through.
Then the cold season came, with worries a new.

She had promised to keep that egg safe from all harm.
“But how,” Nuu-Nuu asked, “can I keep my egg warm?
To take care of this egg, will take more than I’ve got.
For this egg is enormous. And my bottom is not.”



aU-aU Fygs-jlpJa qpg-ahls, jqugla-ZUs jjtK Wlv-Woc,
Grh-qk-dia-xk-aigs jDPs-Hwb-Grnb-Grh-Dogc.
vmg-foa Wlv-Woc, jqugla-ZUs jjtK qpg-ahls,
dmg-nbks-Skx-dia-xk rk-Hwb-Grnb Bbks-Vls-fls.

Nuu-Nuu called on her cousins, her family and friends,
She said, “Please! Will you help? I need all your rear ends.”
So her brothers and sisters and all of their friends,
They all came to help. And they brought their rear ends.

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