Monu Saves His Friend莫努救友

Monu the mongoose1 crawled2 out of the ditch3 in the back garden. Hismother was already out with his three little brothers. They had long bodies withshort legs. They did things fast. They were already good hunters4 like their mother.

But Monu was not smart like his brothers. He didn’t like chasing5 mice andgarden rats like they did. He didn’t even like to go for frogs and lizards. And hedisliked snakes most of all！ His brothers laughed at him.“Little coward6！ ”theylaughed at him.“Poor scared baby！ ”

Monu thought chasing grasshoppers were fun. It was also fun to climb up treesand look inside birds’nests7. Monu liked the taste of birds’eggs. And he likedeating roots and berries. But his brothers said that it was a disgrace8 to be socoward. They fought with snakes and often killed them.

Monu’s brothers liked meat best. All of them had sharp9 teeth. It was veryuseful for tearing10 meat and cutting them up into pieces. They did it when theyattacked11 rats， mice and frogs.

“Ma， why do you keep chasing rats and mice like a cat？”Monu asked one day.“I don’t，”said his mother.“The cat attacks mice on the sly12. We don’t！ We alwaysattack animals openly and directly. Why ask？ All you ever do is eating eggs andberries. You should have been a bird and not a mongoose！ ”said Monu’s brothers.

猫鼬莫努从后花园的水沟里爬了出来。（剩余2830字）