The title of my story is why the praying mantis still shakes - part one.

  Long ago, Crocodile had a large farm full of yams. Everybody talked about it in every corner of the village. It was the most beautiful and largest farms in the village.

  As harvest time was approaching, Ikenna announced to the whole village the day of the harvest. Not a single day passed without people talking about this great event.

However, there was someone who was jealous of the crocodile and wanted to spoil his fortune. He was no other person than the leopard, he was so jealous that he decided to uproot all the yams.

  Every evening the leopard went to uproot large tubers of yam from the crocodile's farm and send them to him own farm. Nobody detected his theft, not even his wife and kids. The crocodile himself did not know. 

  Days passed, the night turned into day. Weeks passed and the harvest was fast approaching. Preparations for the next events were underway.

One day........

Watch out for part 2.

The title of my story is the ant and the grasshopper.

One bright day in late autumn a family of ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the had stored during the summer, when a starving grasshopper has fiddle under his arm came up and dully begged for food to eat.

What!! said the ants in suprise. haven't you stored anything away for winter? What in the world were you doing last summer?

"I didn't have time to store up any food", whined the grasshopper, "I was so busy making music that before I knew it summer was gone."

The ants struggled their shoulder in disgust.. Making music were you?" they cried. "Very well now dance!" And they turned their backs on the grasshopper and went on with their work".

Moral lesson: There is a time for work and a time for play.