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Once upon a time there were an old woman and an old man who were living in the countryside. The old man had a rooster and the woman a hen. The woman vas very proud and happy because the hen laid an egg every day but she was a very greedy woman and never offered a single egg to the man. In vain the old man asked the woman for some eggs she never wanted to hear about sharing them with the man.
- "Beat your rooster if you want to eat eggs! My hen didn't lay any egg until I started beating it!" Naïve and thinking only of his appetite, the old man ran after the rooster, caught it and beat the poor animal. -"You start laying eggs or you'll leave the house, because you are just a burden to me!" The rooster, scared, escaped from the old man’s hands and ,dazed, started wandering when he saw on the road a little bag with some coins in it. He was very happy ,took the little bag in his beak and went to the old man’s house. While she was going home, very pleased with its little treasure, the rooster meet a carriage where some elegant ladies and a landowner were .The landowner saw the rooster and told the driver:
- "Go down and bring me the little bag from the rooster’s beak!’ The driver took the little bag and brought it to the landowner. This one put the bag in his pocket and ordered the driver to move on. The rooster, very angry, followed the carriage and yelled: "Cucurigu ,mighty landowner!Give me back ,my little bag with two coins!’" The landowner,irritated by the rooster’s perseverance, seeing a fountain ,ordered the driver to throw the rooster into it!
What could the driver do but
obeying?.He went down from the carriage,caught the rooster and threw it into the fountain! When
the rooster saw the danger, he started drinking the water from the fountain
until he could fly away from there.Then he started running afterthe carriage
again, yelling as loudly as he could: Very angry, the landowner said:
‘ I will take care you, rooster!!! As soon as the landowner arrived at his mansion, he ordered a woman from the kitchen to throw the rooster in
an oven's fire. The woman caught the rooster and threw it into the fire, putting a rock at the
oven's door.But the rooster started then to pour all the water he had drunk from
the fountain and put the fire out flooding the kitchen. Then he removed the rock from the oven’s door and started yelling again: "Well, I found my Godfather with this rooster, says the angry landowner! Take it and throw it into the middle of the cattle, maybe he’ll be crushed by an angry bull and we’ll be over with it!" The driver took the rooster and threw it in the middle of the cattle. That was all the rooster was waiting
for.He started gobblinge one after another all the animals from the cattle and flew
until the landowner’s window, yelling again;
The landowner didn’t know what
else to do to get rid of the rooster!! He took it again and threw it in his cellar where
allhis money was kept,hoping that ,this way, the rooster would choke
itself with one coin. But, the greedy rooster, emptied the landowner’s
coffer full of golden coins, got out from the cellar and yelled again : When the landowner saw that it was not possible to defeat the rooster, he gave it the little bag only to get rid of it.
Happy ,the rooster took his little bag in its beak and went back to the old man’s house! The landowner was shocked when he saw all the birds of his yard following the rooster ,like at a wedding. "I am happy not to have anything to do with this rooster anymore" said the landowner, sad ,because he was poor now!!! Very proud with a whole crowd surrounding him,the rooster got to the oldman's houseand started yelling again: -"Cucurigu,cucurigu!!!
When the old man heard the rooster’s voice, got out off the house and saw the giant rooster surrounded by a lot of birds. He had never seen such a thing before in his life !!. The proud rooster asked for a blanket to be put in the middle of the yard. Quickly, the old man got the blanket and the rooster beated his wings and soon the old man’s yard was full of cattle and the blanket full of money.The old man’s eyes started sparkling of joy, and he didn’t know what to do for his clever rooster. When the old woman saw such a racket, she came quickly to the old man’s yard to see what was happening. When she saw so much money,she couldn't believe it green of envy.She begged : "Please, give me some money, old man!’’
"Eat your heart up, old lady! Did you give me any eggs when I asked you for?. I did what you told me and look what my rooster gave me !Beat your hen too if you want she brings you money!"
The old lady ,greedily looking at the money, and forgetting that what she had told the oldman to do was just a lie,caught her hen and beated it. The poor hen ran to the road escaping from the old woman's angry hands. There, the hen saw a little crystal ball, swallowed it and went home feeling very happy! He flew to her nest and after an hour gave the old lady the good news. The old lady ran as fast as he could to see what treasures the hen had brought home! .When she looked in the nest and saw the little crystal ball, the old lady got so angry that the hen sacred,escapedfromhomeandnever cameagain. So, the old woman became really so poor that she didn’t have even a hen to eat its eggs! The old man was carrying his rooster with him everywhere with pride.He gave the rooster a golden necklace and red boots. He built many beautiful houses with many fruit trees and they lived happy ever after.
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