The Smartest Parrot
Once upon a time, in the small house in farming area, there lived a man and his wonderful parrot. He got the parrot from his old friend. The parrot had a special skill. It could say anything. Except one word, “Catano”, the place where it was born.
The man very excited to have this wonderful parrot, but he could not understand why the parrot could not say “Catano”. Although he tried hard to teach the parrot, it would not say that word.
At the first, the man was very nice to the parrot. He fed the parrot three times a day and gave it the best food he had. While the man was still trying to teach the parrot to say “Catano”.
One day, after the man had been trying so many times to make the bird say Catano, the man got mad because he felt it was useless to teach the parrot. The man picked the parrot and threw it into the chicken house. There were three old chickens there. He wanted to cut the chickens and the parrot for his meal. “Say Catano, or I will kill you!” the man said. After that he left the chicken house.
The next morning, the man went back to the chicken house. He opened the door and he was surprised by what he watched. The two chickens killed, and the parrot stood in front of the last old chicken. The parrot said to the chicken, “Say Catano, or I will kill you!”.
Ifa Nabilla