A long time ago there was a family living alone in the middle of a forest. There were two children, a boy called Baba and sister whose name was Nyasha.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
After some time both parents died and the two children went looking for a place they could live in another area.\u00a0 They found a cave in a rock, which was just the right size to use as a house for the two of them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Baba went out to go hunting and also to look for food, while Nyasha\u2019s job was to cook and do other domestic work.\u00a0 Whenever he came back home there was a particular song he would sing and his little sister would recognize his voice and open the door to let him in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was the song Baba sang to Nyasha: \u201cOpen the door for me, my sister.\u00a0 I have a rabbit, oranges, and rice.\u201d And the sister could open the door.\u00a0 They loved each other and took care of each other.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
But while this was happening, there was an animal in the forest listening.\u00a0 This animal had come to love Nyasha.\u00a0 And every time the boy came home after hunting and sang his song, little did he know that the animal was also listening.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
One day while the boy was out hunting, the animal came and tried singing the same song that the boy sang.\u00a0 But he got some of the words wrong, and Nyasha knew her brother\u2019s voice, and hearing a strange voice instead of Baba\u2019s, she refused to open the door.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The animal went and hid in the nearby bush in order to listen more closely to the song. As the boy approached home that evening,\u00a0 little did he know that the animal was nearby and was listening closely to learn the right passwords and how to imitate Baba\u2019s voice when he sang the song.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The following day when the boy was away the animal came and sang the password song properly and Nyasha opened the door.\u00a0 The big animal scared her and she started to scream.\u00a0 But the animal said, \u201cI come as a friend, not an enemy.\u00a0 I am lonely and would love to be your friend. Will you please come with me? I won\u2019t harm you.\u201d\u00a0 So the girl followed him into the forest.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
When Baba came back\u00a0 home that evening, he sang the song as usual, but the door was not opened. He pushed it open, only to find his little sister was missing.\u00a0 She had told him that someone had tried to sing the password song, so he went out and started searching, following her tracks, and the animal\u2019s tracks, into the forest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Eventually he came upon the animal lying under a big tree and\u00a0 asked, \u201cWhere is my sister?\u201d\u00a0 When the animal refused to respond, he threatened to cut him into small pieces if he didn\u2019t tell him.\u00a0 So the animal said she is cooking food in my house, andl led Baba to his sister.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Baba took Nyasha back home and commanded the animal never to look for his little sister agai.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The animal felt sad, but left them alone after that.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00a0Story Shared by MUKAKABONA JACQUELINE<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n LESSONS LEARNED:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u2713 To take care of our siblings<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u2713 To love animals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u2713To share with our siblings<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A long time ago there was a family living alone in the middle of a forest. There were two children, a boy called Baba and sister whose name was Nyasha.\u00a0 After some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zebra-group"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusinginternational.org\/betterworldforkids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}