The Boy Who Became a Stone

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One day a little bay named Elonen sat out in the yard making a bird snare, and as he worked, a little bird called to him:"Tik-tik-lo-den"(come and catch me). "I am making a snare for you," said the boy; but the bird continued tocall until the snare was finished. The Elonen ran and threw the snare ouer the bird and caught it, and he put it in a jar in his house while he went with the other boys to swim. While he was away, his grandmother grew hungry so she ate the bird, and when Elonen returned and found that his bird was gone, he was so sad that he wished he might go away and never come back. He went out into the forest and walked a long distance ,until finally he came to a big stone and said:"Stone, open your mouth and eat me."And the stone opened its mouth and swallowed the boy. Whe his grandmother missed the boyshe went out and looked everywhere, hoping to find him. Finally she passed near the stone and it cried out:"Here he is." Then the old woman tried to open the stone but she could not, so she called the horses to come and help her. They came and kicked it, but it would not break. Then she called the carabao and they hooked it, but they only broke their horns. She called the chickens, which pecked it ,and the thunder, which shook it, but nothing could open it, and she had to go home without the boy.