A Lion Raised by a Cat

A cat was lost in the forest. He saw that one female lion died and a cub remained by her side. He took it and started to bring him up. Then the lion cub grew and became big. He began to hunt and eat other animals.

One day the lion wanted to eat his foster cat. The cat found out, ran away, and climbed up a tree. The lion lay down at the bottom of the tree and pleaded him: 

‘’My mother's most beloved and my guardian, if you have taught me all your virtues, why haven't you taught me to climb the tree?’’

The cat responded:

’I kept this for myself: it would have been difficult for me if I had taught you all my tricks.”

             The King and the Artist

A one-eyed king had an artist he didn't like and was looking for a reason to put him to death

Once the king ordered the artist:

- I want you to draw me!

The artist said in his heart: Now the day of my end 

has come. If I paint both eyes, it will still kill me: it is not like me.

After much thought, the artist came up with this method: he drew a deer, gave the king a gun, closed his blind eye, and shot the deer with his healthy eye.

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The artist presented this picture to the king. The king could not find a reason and the artist escaped death

             Tongue-engraved heart

A man and a bear became brothers. Once the man invited the bear to his house and welcomed him well. When saying goodbye, the man kissed the bear and kissed his wife.

The woman was disturbed by the bear's fatness, spat and said:

- I can't deal with a filthy and smelly guest!

The bear has left, without saying anything.

After a while, this man went to visit the bear and took an axe with him. thinking "On the way I will cut wood and bring it home!" 

They met each other and started talking. Then the bear said:

- Hit the axe on my head and wound me!

The man refused, but the bear did not let go. The man took the axe and broke his head. The bear went to the forest and the man came home

A month later they met again. The bear's head was healed.

The bear said:

-Look, brother, I am recovered from your axe’s wound, but not from your wife's tongue-engraved heart.

            The Miser and  His Gold

A man buried a lot of gold in the ground. Every day he went and visited that place. Another man noticed all this and said to himself:

- I will go and dig the place that he visits so often, I will find out what he is hiding.

He came at night, dug up the gold, and took it away, burying a big stone instead.

- I buried the gold, I didn't want to spend it. It was stolen, and instead of it, the stone was put.

Woe to you! why are you crying? If you didn't spend it, how does it matter, whatever you have in the ground -be it gold or stone!

One day the man wanted to see his gold, so he dug it up and when he saw a stone instead of gold, he started crying and wailing. A thief came and asked:

- Why are you crying?

The gold thief replied:

      The Turtle and a Scorpion

A turtle and a scorpion became friends, set out on the road, and got to a river to cross. The scorpion got tired, he did not know how to swim, and could not get to the other side.

The turtle said:

 Sit on my back, I'll carry you there!

The scorpion sat on the turtle's back. When the turtle swam into the water, the scorpion started biting on his shell.

The turtle asked:

- I don't want to do what I am doing, but we are such a family, that we must bite everyone, the enemy and the lover.

What are you doing brother?

The turtle dived, threw the scorpion into the water, and said:

- Brother, I don't want it either, but if my family doesn't wash off the poison, our skin will swell and we will die.

The book is written by students of the 10th class, LEPL Tbilisi N207 Public School. 

Tamta Saralidze

Tiko Ekvshaurashvili

Salome Zhuki