The Giant Crab and Other Tales: Part A

The Giant Crab:

Retold by W.H.D. Rouse

·         This crab lived alone in a lake.

·         He always killed one of the animals from the forest that drank water from the lake.

·         He would nip at them and they would drown and become dinner.

·         He grew bigger and bigger each day.

·         The elephants planned against him. They put some elephants on watch and the others drank and bathed.

·         Finally the crab snuck up and the wife of the elephant getting attacked begged for the crab to show mercy.

·         The crab was flirt and flirted with the elephant’s wife.

·         He asked for a kiss and the crab went in for a kiss and the injured elephant jumped on his back.

·         The elephant cracked the crabs shell and crushed him to pieces.

·         The elephant and his wife were declared king and queen of the land.

·         The claws were unable to break and they floated down the river to the king’s son who made them drums and they wounded those drums when they went to war. 

Giant Crab