Mongolian Mythology
"The Greedy Dog"
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, there was a greedy dog living in the Altai Mountains.
One day while the greedy dog was walking along, he found a nice bone on the ground near a bridge. He stopped to pick up the bone and looked accross the river to the other side. He thought it looked nicer on the other side of the river and decided to go on accross the bridge. As the greedy dog was walking across the bridge with the bone in this mouth he looked down into the water. There in the water he say his own reflection and thought is was another dog with a bone. The gredy dog thought to himself "I am going to take that bone wawy from the other dog as it is bigger than the bone I have." So the greedy dog jumped off the bridge into the water. He splashed around for a while, but never found the other dob and lost his own bone at the same time.
|
