BR 2-04: The Musicians of Bremen

Once upon a time, there was a very mean man.  He was mean to his donkey, his dog, his cat and his rooster. His donkey, dog, cat and rooster are friends.  Especially, he was very mean to rooster.  He said, “I’ll get him tomorrow.  We’ll put his rooster in the pot and eat him for lunch.”  That evening, the rooster crowed as hard as he could to tell them that a mean man will eat us tomorrow.  The donkey said, “Let’s run way.  We can go to Bremen and join the town band.”  The cat thinks I’ll play the violin.  The dog thinks I’ll play the didgeridoo.  The donkey said to the rooster “you can sing.”  The four friends set off at once.  They walked until they came to a deep and dark forest.  They found a house.  There were three robbers in the house.  They ejected three robbers from the house.  Then, they burst into the room, and they ate various dishes, and they slept.  The smallest robber crept into the kitchen.  He saw the shining eyes of the cat.  He thought “Burning coals.”  He put his candle in the cat’s eyes and she leaped at his face.  He ran to the door where there is the dog, and the dog bit his leg.  He ran across the yard and into the donkey.  The rooster screeched flying across the roof.  The robbers never went back to the house again.  The four friends never did go to Bremen, and they never did become musicians.  They liked the house so much they stayed there for the rest of their lives. 

I hope they live happily.  I think it was not good that they became robbers.  However, I thought I was good that they were not eaten to a mean man.  I was glad when I found this book because I have read it written in Japanese when I was a child.  I thought the book which written in English isn’t.  However, I don’t remember content of the book written in Japanese, so I was a little difficult for me, but it was very interesting.

Reference

Susanna Davidson (2007).  The story of The Musicians of Bremen.  England, London: Usborne. 

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