ဒ့ၣ်သုဖိအမံၤလၢ မီး

ယအဲၣ်ဒီးသဂၢၢ်တၢ်လီၤပျံၤလီၤဖုးလၢကဘၣ်ပလီၢ်သး မီးပတိၤတၢ်ဒီးချံး တဲဝဲ တဲဝဲ ယဘၣ်ဟးထီၣ်ဃိကွၢ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ဘၣ်ဃးဟီၣ်ခိၣ်တဖျၢၣ်အံၤ ချံးလၢအကူာ်တၢ်သ့ တဲပလီၢ်အီၤ တဘၣ်ဟးထီၣ်လၢထံကျါယံာ်ကဲးဆိး မ့မၤဒ်န့ၣ်နသ့ၣ်ကဃ့ထီလီၤ ဖဲန့ၣ်အခါဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံးလီၤဂာ်ဒ့ၣ် ထံမ့တအိၣ်ဘၣ်အဝဲသ့ၣ်အသ့ၣ်ပဃ့ကဲးဆိးလီၤ

"You could leave the river and explore the forest," her friend the terrapin said. "But be careful. Don't leave the water for too long or your skin will dry out."

ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်ဖိမီး အဲၣ်ဒီးဃုထံၣ်ဃုသ့ၣ်ညါဒံးတၢ် ယကဘၣ်ဟးထီၣ်ဃိကွၢ်တၢ် ယကသၣ်ဟးထီၣ်လၢပှၢ်ပူၤ ဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်ဖိမီးကတိၤတၢ် မီးတခွ့ထီၣ်ဆူခိ ဟးထီၣ်ကွံာ်လၢထ့ပူၤ ဟီပ ဟီပ အဝဲတခွ့ထီၣ်ဆူခိဟးထိီၣ်ကွံာ်လၢထံကျိပူၤ တၢ်မုာ်ဘၣ်အီၤလၢပတခွ့ခိီကပာ်လၢၢ်ခီပပာ်နီၢ်ဒီးခီဂာ်ထံသီကျီၤ

Mod was sure her skin would enjoy the warm, dry air. She couldn't wait to begin and hopped right out of the water. Hop, hop, she went, away from the river. She had fun jumping over the rocks, across grass, and over trenches.

အဝဲနၢ်ဟူကပီယူၤ မီးကွၢ်ထီၣ်ဆူမူကပိာ်လိး တၢ်မနုၤအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဖီခိၣ်န့ၣ်လဲၣ် အဝဲသံကွၢ်ယၤ ပှၤတစံးဆၢအီၤနီဆဂၤဘၣ် အသးဒ့ဒီမ့ၢ်တၢ်အၢၣ်ကိၣ်လိၣ်တဖၣ်ကတိၤသကိးတၢ်စ့ၢ်ဧါ

She heard the sound of an airplane. Mod looked up into the sky. "What is up there?" she asked. "I wonder if the clouds are talking." But no one answered her.

မီးလဲၤဆူညါဝံၤထံၣ်ဘၣ် ခွံၢ်အဆိကတၢၢ်တဘျီ ခွံၢ်အိၣ်လၢထံပူၤဖးဒိၣ်အကပၤ နံၤလၢအဂ့ၤ ယလဲၤတၢ်ဒ်သိးကသဂၢၢ်တၢ်လီၤပျံၤဆူတၢ်လီၢ်လၢအဃ့ထီ နကတဲဘၣ်ယၤလၢတၢ်မနုၤတဖၣ်သ့ဧါ တဲနၤ တၢ်မနုၤတသ့အါဘၣ်ပှၤလၢပတညီနုၢ်ထံၣ်ဘၣ်အီၤ တၢ်လီၣ်ဖဲအံၤမူခိၣ်စူၤစၢ် မူခိၣ်စူၤအါမး ခွံၢ်စံးဆၢအီၤ အိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဒီးဘၣ်တုလါအါမးလီၤ

Mod carried on and soon she met a chameleon. "Hello, I am looking for adventure. What can you tell me about the world away from the river?" she asked. "Nothing much, stranger. It rains a lot here. There are lots of flies to eat," replied the chameleon.

ဖဲခွံၢ်ကတိၤတၢ်အခါ အက့ၢ်အဂီၤလဲလိာ်အလွဲၢ် မီးဖုးဘၣ်အသးပျံၤတၢ် အဝဲဃ့လီၤဖးချ့ချ့ ဒီးတခွ့ ဃီၤဆူသ့ၣ်ကဒၢအပူၤလၢအိၣ်သူၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်လီၤ

But suddenly, the chameleon's body changed color! Mod had never seen anything like it. She was frightened and hopped away as quickly as she could.

ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အသူအၢမး ထွံၣ်ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဂူာ်လီာ်ကုၢ်အူသ့ၣ်ပဒၢလၢတၢ်ကတဲာ်ကတီၤတၢ်လီၢ် လၢ တၢ်သူၣ်တၢ်ဖျး အဆၢကတီၢ်အဂီၢ်

Mod quickly found herself facing another strange new creature. It was a hyena, burning bushes to prepare for the planting season.

မီးတအဲၣ်ဒီးဃာ်ကဒါအသးမ့ၢ်လၢပျံၤကထံၣ်ခွံၢ်ကဒီး အဃိအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်ဖဲသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအပူၤ ကထံၣ်ထဲအမဲာ်ချံဖျၢၣ်ဖးဒိၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ပျံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ မီးဘၣ်တၢ်ပဝီၤဃာ်အီၤလၢမ့ၢ်အူဝးတရံး

Mod was frightened of the hyena, but did not want to turn around and face the chameleon either, so she stayed hidden in the bushes. The fire came closer, and closer!

မီးတသ့ညါလၢကလဲၤဆူလဲၣ် မ့ၢ်လၣ်စးထီၣ်အူအိီၣ်အချၢ တဘျီဃီဒ့ၣ်သုဖိဆိကမိၣ်ထီၣ်ထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်ဖဲအထံၣ်ဘၣ်ခွံၢ် အဝဲသံတံၢ်အမဲာ်ချံဃံးဃံး ကီၤကသါဒီးတခွ့တၢ်ဖးထီဃဃာ်ဃီၤအသးဆူတၢ်လီၢ်လၢထံအိၣ်အလီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

With nowhere to run, the flames began to burn her back. Mod looked frantically for an escape. She spotted a small pond some distance away. It was her only hope. She closed her eyes and leapt as high and far as she could.

တဘျီအံၤအသူၣ်ဂ့ၤ အဝဲတခွ့လီးလၢထံပူၤ ဒီးထံမၤပံာ်ကွံာ်မ့ၢ်လၣ်လၢအူအီၣ်အသ့ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တၢ်ဟးဂီၤကဲထီၣ်လံအသး တုၤအဟးထီၣ်လၢထံပူၤ လၢအသ့ၣ်အလိၤပှဲၤဒီီးတၢ်ပူၤလီၢ်ကဖိထံ

SPLASH! Mod landed right in the pond. For the first time in a long time, she was grateful for the cool water, which put out the flames on her back. But the damage was done. When she came out of the puddle, the skin on her back was covered with blisters.

မီးတအဲၣ်ဒီးဟးဒ်သိးကသဂၢၢ်တၢ်လီၤပျံၤကဒီးလၢၤဘၣ် အဝဲအဲၣ်ဒီးက့ၤလၢအဒၢး ဘၣ်ဆၣ်တသ့ၣ်ညါကျဲလၢကက့ၤကဒါဆူအထံကျိလၢပှၢ်ပူၤ လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိ ဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်ဖိဃုန့ၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢအခုၣ်ဒီးခံးသူလၢလၢၢ်ဖီလာ်ဒီးဘှီၣ်ထီၣ်အဒၢသီလၢတၢ်သးအုးအသ့ၣ်လၢအူအီၣ်ဘျါက့ၤကယီကယီဘၣ်ဆၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်ကိၣ်တုၤ

Mod wanted to go home. But she did not know the way back to the river. So the little toad found a cool, dark place under a rock and made a new home. Her burned skin slowly healed, but it was dry and bumpy.

အဝဲအံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အသးလၢဒ့ၣ်သုၣ်အသ့ၣ်ဃ့ထီဒီးကိၣ်လိာ်တဘျ့ဘၣ်ဒီးအိၣ်တၢ်လီၢ်လၢယံၤဒီးထံသ့ မ့မ့ၢ်ဒ့ၣ်အိၣ်ဒီးအဘ့ၣ်ဘျ့ဘၣ်စီးဒံး ဒီးကဘၣ်အိၣ်လၢတၢ်လီၢ် ဘၣ်စီးပှဲာ်ပှာ်ထီသိန့ၣ်လီၤ

This is why toads have dry rough skin, and can live away from water. Frogs still have smooth wet skin and need to stay where it's wet.