An Old Feel Good Tale

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I have heard this tale so many times in my life. Here is how it goes....

My mother went to a neighbour's house and she noticed that there was a bountiful harvest of fruits on the pangkin.

"Cik Ani, mana dapat buah banyak-banyak ni?"

"Alah, Cik Bada, si Meli bawak balik tadi, dia ambik kat atas bukit tu. Dia kata dia pegi dengan Usop. Usop tak ada bawak balik sikit?"

"Tak ada pun..."

"Eh, banyak buah atas bukit tu, saya ingat mesti si Usop ada bawak balik sikit kat Cik Bada?"

"Tak ada...."

When she returned home, she asked my brother, who was maybe twelve or thirteen years old then. For I must be two or three years old, for I don't remember a thing about it.

"Usop, Mak nampak banyak buah kat rumah Cik Ani tadi. Dia kata Meli dengan engkau pegi ambik? Apa tak bawa balik rumah sikit?"

"Alaaaaa Mak, buah curi biar saya sorang aje makan, Mak dengan adik2 saya tak payahlah makan....."

Heh heh heh, come to think of it, it is so true. Pandai jugak my brother tu, benda tak baik dia tak bawak balik rumah sumbat kat adik-adik.

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