9th Primary School of Larisa –
5th class
―Mother and her four children‖
MOTHER AND HER FOUR CHILDREN (A traditional fairy-tale
from Larissa-greece) Once upon a time, many many years ago, there
lived one mother with her four children:the Tortoise, the
Hedgehog, the Spider and the Bee. Their father had died when the
children were young and mother had to take care of
everything.Since then, she had to be both mother and father.She
worked really hard to bring them up.She had turned night into day.
But there was nothing missing, they had everything……. When time
came, the children got married and made their own home. Their
mother was living alone, happy and satisfied that she had managed
to raise and marry her children despite difficulties and anguish.
She had grown old by then.She got sick once and realized that her
days were numbered. Thus, she wanted one of her children to be
next to her and close her eyes, at this very last moment.For this
reason, she calls an errand-boy living next door, and tells him: -Go
to my eldest daughter, the Tortoise, and tell her that I am
seriously ill and I want to see her.
The errand-boy goes to the house of the Tortoise and says: -AuntTortoise, aunt-Tortoise! The Tortoise comes to the door and the