အ့နဲစံၣ်ဒီးလီတာ်

ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိး အ့နဲသံၣ်ဆိမိၣ်ထီၣ်န့ၢ်တၢ်ကူၣ်လၢကမၤန့ၢ်ပဒဲတၢ်ဘုၣ်လီၢ် တယံၥ်တခီၣ် ပဒဲဘၣ်တၢ်ညိကွံ၁်အီၤလၢတၢ်ဖှီၣ်တၢ်ယ၁်အလီၢ် တၢ်ဘုၣ်လီၢ်တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ် တၢ်သူၣ်တၢ်သၣ်လၢအမ့ၢ်ပဒဲတၢ်န့ၣ်ကဲထီၣ်က့ၤအ့နဲသံၣ်တၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

So Anansi thought of a clever plan to take over Rabbit’s farm. Soon Rabbit was left poor and homeless.

အ့နဲသံၣ်မၤန့ၢ်တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ် တၢ်သူၣ်တၢ်သၣ်လဲၤဆါလၢက၁်ပူၤ အန့ၢ်ဘၣ်ကၠ့အါမးတုၤအဘၣ်ဆွံနု၁်ဝဲလၢသိၣ်ဃၤဖးဒိၣ်ပူၤ အမၤန့ၢ်ကၠ့တနီၤလဲၤပှ့ၤန့ၢ်ဘုခ့ချံဟ့ၣ်အဒူၣ်ဖိထၢဖိ ဒီးအဆွံနုၥ်တံၢ်ဒီးကၠ့လၢသိၣ်ဃၤပူၤ

Anansi went to the market to sell the fruit and vegetables Rabbit had grown. He made so much money that he filled a big basket with it! With some of the money, he bought maize for his family, and put it on top of the money in the basket.

အ့နဲသံၣ်က့ၤလၢအဒၢးပှဲၤဒီးတၢ်သးမု၁် အဒီထီၣ်သိၣ်ဃၤဒီးကိးတၢ်သးဝံၣ် အဆိမိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်တမံၤဒီးတမံၤလၢအကမၤန့ၢ်အကၠ့ပှ့ၤ

Anansi happily headed home with his basket on his head. He sang as he thought about all the things he was going to buy.

ဖဲက့ၤလၢကျဲန့ၣ်မူခိၣ်စူၤလီၤတမျၢၣ် တဖျၢၣ် တယံၥ်ဘၣ်စူၤလီၤဝဲဖးဒိၣ် ကပီၤအ့နဲသံၣ် ပ၁်လီၤအသိၣ်ဃၤလၢကျဲဃၢၤအဝဲဒၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်သူလၢသ့ၣ်ခီၣ်ထံး ဖဲန့ၣ်အကွါဃီၤလၢသိၣ်ဃၤလၢအလုၢ်အိၣ်ပှ့ၤအိၣ်ထီဘိ

On the way, it started to drizzle. Soon the drizzle turned into a heavy downpour. Anansi left his basket on the side of the road to shelter under a tree. From there he kept a close watch on his precious basket.

မူခိၣ်စူၤဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ဒိၣ်ထီၣ်ထုၤထုၤ အ့နဲသံၣ်တၢ်ဂၢၢ်ဒီးဘၣ်ကၠီၣ် အလဲၤကၠံၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတဆူ "ယကအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ပူၤတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤ" အ့နဲသံၣ်တဲဒီးအကကၠၢ်"ဒ်လဲၣ်ဒ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ် ယကၠ့အိၣ်ဝဲလၢဘုခ့ချံဖၢလ၁်လၢယကျၢၢ်ဘၢပ၁်"

It started to rain even more heavily. Anansi became cold and wet, so he ran into a hole. "I will stay in this hole until the rain stops," said Anansi to himself. "At least my money is protected by the maize I put on top of it."

အိၣ်တကၠိၢ် ကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးတဘ့ၣ်ဟဲယူၤဝးဝးဒီးထံၣ်စိၣ်ဃၤအိၣ်လၢကျဲဃၢၤ အထံၣ်ကၠ့ဒီးဘုခ့ချံအိၣ်လၢစိၣ်ဃၤပူၤဒ်န့ၣ်သိး အကယၢ်ထီၣ်အဒံးမၤဘၢစိၣ်ဃၤ ခိးတုၤမူခိၣ်ယီၤစိၣ်ဃၤ

A little while later, Vulture was flying around and spotted the basket on the side of the road. He saw that there was money and maize in the basket. So he covered the basket with his wings and waited for the rain to stop.

အ့နဲသံၣ်ထံၣ်ကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးဆ့ၣ်နီၤလၢစိၣ်ဃၤခိၣ် "အိ တၢ်ဘျုးလီၤ ယသကိး လၢနကွၢ်ဟ့ၣ်ယစိၣ်ဃၤ"အစံးဒီးကၠိးဝၣ်ဃး "ဝံသးစူး အံနဲသံၣ် ယကနၣ်ဘၣ်တဘၣ်ဧါ" ကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးစံး "နစိၣ်ဃၤဧါ စိၣ်ဃၤအကဲယတၢ်ယထံၣ်န့ၢ်လၢကျဲဃၢၤလီၤ" အ့နဲသံၣ်တန၁်လၢအတၢ်နၣ်ဟူပူၤဘၣ် "ယကတဲဘၣ်နၤ အကဲယတၢ်လီၤ"

Anansi saw Vulture sitting on his basket. When the rain stopped, he came out and spoke to Vulture. "Oh thank you, my friend, for protecting my basket," he said. "Did I hear you right, Anansi?" asked Vulture. "You think this basket is yours? No! This basket is mine. I found it here on the roadside." Anansi could not believe his ears! "It’s mine, I tell you!"

လၢတၢ်သးပွံၢ်ထီ၁်အဃိ အ့နဲသံၣ်လဲတဲဘၣ်အခိၣ်အနၢ်လၢပှၤဟုၣ်တၢ်အဂ့ၢ် ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးတဲဒီးတၢ်ခိၣ်တၢ်နၢ်ဒ်အံၤ "မတၤလၢအကညိကွံၥ်သိၣ်ဃၤအိၣ်ပှဲၤဒီကၠ့ဒီးဘုခ့ချ့လၢကျဲဃၢၤဘူၣ်တဂၤဂၤလဲၣ်""ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယကွၢ်ဟုၣ်ယသိၣ်ဃၤထီဘိန့ၣ်လီၤ"အ့နဲသံၣ်စံးဆၢ "အံၤကၠ့ဒီးဘုခ့ချံအမ့ၢ်ယတၢ်လီၤ" ယအိၣ်ကွၢ်ယသိၣ်ဃၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်နဟဲဃီၤတဲဒီးယၤလၢအမ့ၢ်နတၢ်" ကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးစံးဆၢ

Furious, Anansi reported the theft to the chief. But Vulture defended himself. "How could anyone leave a basket full of money and maize unguarded on the road?" "I was watching my basket," said Anansi. "It’s my money and my maize!" "No, I was looking after the basket when you came and said it was yours." replied Vulture.

ဖဲတၢ်ခိၣ်တၢ်နၢ်န့ၢ်ကနၣ်အဝဲခံဂၤထံထံဆးဆးဝံၤ အတဲဒီးအ့နဲသံၣ်ဒီးကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးလဲၤထီၣ်လၢတၢ်ချၢဒးဝံၤ အသုဝဲသုးဖှိၣ်ရိဖှိၣ်လိ၁်သးတဲသကိးတၢ်အီၣ်တၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်ဖးယံၥ်် လၢခံကတၢၢ်န့ၣ်အသုဝဲဆိမိၣ်ထံ"ဆိမိၣ်ဆးလံ""ပာ်လီၤသး"

The chief and the elders listened carefully to both sides, then sent Anansi and Vulture away. They discussed the situation for a long time. Eventually they reached a decision.

အသုဝဲကိးအ့နဲသံၣ်ဒီးကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးဟဲကၠံနုၥ်ဒီးတဘျီ ပန၁်ကၠိးဝၣ်ဃးလီၤ အသုဝဲစံး အတမ့ၢ်ပှၤဟုၣ်တၢ်ဘၣ် နကတိၤကူၣ်န့ၢ်တၢ်လၢတမ့ၢ်နတၢ်ဘၣ် အ့နဲသံၣ်ဘူးတန၁်အတၢ်နၣ်ဟူဘၣ် ဝံၤအဟီၣ်ထီၣ်ဝဲဒၣ်

They summoned Anansi and Vulture again. "We believe Vulture’s story," they said. "He is not the thief. You were trying to claim something that was not yours." Anansi could not believe his ears!

တၢ်ကစီၣ်လၢ""တၢ်ပာ်လီၤသးဒ်န့ၣ် မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢအထီဒါတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လၢအ့နဲသံၣ်ဃဲၤဝဲန့ၣ်လီၤ" ဖဲအ့နဲသံၣ်ဟးထီၣ်အနၣ်ဟူပဒဲနံၤကိးဖှး ပဒဲဟဲက့ၤလၢအ"တၢ်ဘုၣ်လီၢ်""တၢ်ဘုၣ်လီၢ်"ဝံၤအသးထီၣ်သူၣ်တၢ်ဒိးတၢ်လၣ်တၢ်သူၣ်တၢ်သၣ် မ့ၢ်လၢအ့နဲသံၣ်န့ၣ်က့ၤကဲပှၤဖှီၣ်ပှၤယ၁်ဒီးတဘျီ ဒီးတၢ်တဘျီအံၤအသကိးအိၣ်နီတဂၤဘၣ်

The news soon spread that the judgement had gone against Anansi. As he walked away, he heard Rabbit laughing and laughing. Rabbit got his farm back. And Anansi was right back where he started, unhappy and jealous.