A MAGIC DOG : New children's story 2019

Writer: Gladness Raymond

Translator (from Swahili to English) : Glory Kalinga

There was a family where a father, mother and three sons were with their dog. One day the father had to go to war because he was a soldier. He had married his wife and children but he also wrote a will, so that if he did not succeed, children should not fight because of the inheritance.

After a while without getting any information from the battle, the mother decided to go and look for her husband if he needed any help, but unfortunately, she found her husband died, due to a heart attack the mother died too.

The children received information that their mother and father had died and they were buried with all military dignity, they decided to look at the abandoned parents and find it a written paper that, the first child gives the home they live in, the second child given a farm and the third child given the dog they had.

Life was going on but the third child had nothing to eat and give his dog, more than his poetry. But the Dog said if you could give me a bag and leaves used as food for the animals you see my importance, the child decided to give the dog what it needed.

The dog after being given what it needed, it went to the bush with many rabbits and put the leaves in a bag of grass and put it next to a hole, with a rabbit then slept on the side as if it died. After a while, they came into four rabbits in the bag and caught them to the king.

When the dog reached to the king, it said "my teacher of poetry brought this gift for you", the king received the gift with two hands but wondered who this poet was!?

The dog continued to send various gifts to the king and this increased the curiosity of the king about the wise dog.

One day a clever dog found that the king and his daughter were traveling to see different places in his country. The dog rushed to his teacher and told him to go and sit on the river as if he wanted to sink while waiting for the king's car to ask for help.

When the king's car passed, the dog shouted "help! help! my poetry teacher is drowning!" Since the king knows the name well, he sent guards to help him.

When the teacher was saved he had no clothes to wear as his clothing was stained, so he was given royal attire, was very attractive and appeared to be wearing the royal attire, the king's daughter told him so while on the way to the house of the teacher.

In the town where the child was living, was the unused house where nobody lived, the dog decided to decorate it, once it had the king's car approaching, it went and said: "welcome in my poetry teacher's house, we live together since he has no other relative than me".After the king's daughter heard this, she was sorry and asked her father for a marriage with the teacher, and the king had no objection.

On the wedding day, after the marriage is performed, there came a young man who introduced himself as the person who made the teacher and the king's daughter meet, but the crowd did not believe him, he then turned into that magic dog then he became a normal person again. He then narrated them "Our father had four children but I was sick and the only way to be saved was to live like a dog, and that's why I was left to the last child because he has true love. The teacher was very grateful to find her brother and lived happily all the days ahead.