Once upon a time, there were a brother and a sister who lived happily in a deep mountain village.
While their parents worked on fields, the two stayed in their cottage all day long.
“A tiger might come, so make sure that you lock the door!"
Their parents reminded them repeatedly and left for work.
The brother and the sister quickly entered into the room and locked the door quickly.
They played games and had big, round potatoes baked on a brazier.
While they waited for their parents to come back,
Waft, waft, waft!
The smell of good baked potatoes spreaded all over the mountain.
Then, after smelling them, a hungry tiger rushed down
to the brother and the sister’s house in one leap.
The tiger kept sniffing around.
“Mother and father? Are you here already?”
Seeing the dark shadow outside the door,
the younger sister tried to open the door.
“Wait a moment!”
Moving her aside,
the older brother carefully looked around the outside from the chink in the door.
At that moment, his face went pale.
“T, t, t, tiger …”
The brother looked around the room.
“Is there anything to drive out the tiger?
“Brother, what about this pillow?”
“No, anything else?”
“What about tying him up with this straw rope?
The younger sister picked up a bundle of straw rope in a corner of the room.
“Brother, this needle is too small, isn’t it?”
The sister showed him a sewing box
and the brother quickly picked up a needle.
Then, he poked the tiger
with the needle right through the door.
“Oh, what’s this? Ouch! Ouch, it stings!
The angry tiger looked around.
“OK, I’ll get into the hole!
You bad kids! I will eat you up!”
“The tiger got into the furnace. Let’s get out of here quickly!”
The brother and the sister sneaked out of the room.
with only his tail left outside of it.
The tiger slowly crawled into the furnace.
The brother quickly put some water on a bundle of rice straw.
The wet straw soon made smoke, which
filled up the furnace.
The brother and the sister ran into the room and locked the door quickly.
Sniff, sniff, sniff, what smell is this?
Ouch! It’s hot! Save me!
Cough, cough, cough, cough.”
“Roar, roar!”
After much struggling, the tiger managed to escape from the furnace and got
really angry.
“You bad kids! I will eat you up.”
I will get inside the house."
Going round and round the outside of the cottage, the tiger suddenly jumped up high.
“Roar, roar!"
Landing on the roof, the tiger smashed the roof
of the cottage with his large, thick hind paws. Thud-thud!
It looked like the house cottage would be knocked down.
“Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!”
“Crack!”
Finally, the tiger’s hind leg
popped through a big hole.
Shocked, the brother and the sister ran out the room as fast as they could.
“Ouch! It’s so hot!”
Watching the tiger screaming, the younger sister giggled.
“Look, brother! The tiger is milling.”
Stuck with his body in the roof,
the tiger was moaning, because he couldn't move at all!
And because of the hot potatoes laid on the floor,
the tiger kept moving his two paws up and down,
as if he was milling.
Seeing the tiger milling, the brother and the sister
ran into the kitchen and brought a pouch of millet.
The sister roasted the millet on the brazier,
and the brother poured it beneath the tigers’ paws.
Then, the tiger milled it,
thud-thud!
“Is there anything else to mill?”
The brother and the sister brought wheat, barley and dried peppers
to let the tiger mill.
“Wow, he milled all of them!”
The brother and the sister smiled wide, looking at the milled grains and peppers.
Well, guess what happened to the exhausted tiger
that had milled all day long?