ဘၣ်မနုၤလၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်တအိၣ်ဘၣ်လဲၣ်

ကဆီထံအိၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီးဖဲန့ၣ် ဟးလိၣ်ကွဲးဒီးအီၣ်နီၢ်လါဟ့လီၤ

Hippo was there too, going for a stroll and eating some nice green grass.

ကဆီထံတထံၣ်လၢပဒဲအိၣ်ဖဲန့ၣ်ဘၢ် လၢတၢ်တပာ်သးဘၣ်အဝဲယီၢ်ဘၣ်ပဒဲအခီၣ် ပဒဲကီးဃး ကဆီထံ ကဆီီထံ နတထံၣ်နုၤ နယီၢ်ဘၣ်ယခီၣ်အံၤ

Hippo didn’t see that Rabbit was there and she accidentally stepped on Rabbit’s foot. Rabbit started screaming at Hippo, "You Hippo! Can’t you see that you’re stepping on my foot?"

ကဆီထံဃ့ဝံသးစူပဒဲ ယဝံသးစူနၤသပှၢ်တၢၢ် သးကညီၤပျၢ်န့ၢ်ယတၢ်ကမၢ်နီၤ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ပဒဲတကနၢ်ဘၣ် ဒီးဃါကဆီထံနပာ်သးယီၢ်ယခီၣ် မုၢ်တနံၤနကသ့ၣ်ညါ လၢနကဘၣ်လီးက့ၤလီၤ

Hippo apologised to Rabbit, "I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you. Please forgive me!" But Rabbit wouldn’t listen and he shouted at Hippo, "You did that on purpose! Someday, you’ll see! You’re going to pay!"

ပဒဲလဲၤအိၣ်မ့ၣ်အူဒီးစံးဝဲ "မ့ၢ်အူ" ကဆီထံယီၢ်ဘၣ်ယခီၣ် နဘၣ်လဲၤဆူးအူ ကဆီထံ ဖဲအဟဲထီၣ်အီၤထံအီၣ်နီၢ်အခါ မ့ၣ်အူစံးဆၢအီၤသ့ဝဲသၢၣ် တံၤသကိးပဒဲ ယကမၤဒ်နတဲဘၣ်ယၤအသိးလီၤ

Rabbit went to find Fire and said, "Go, burn Hippo when she comes out of the water to eat grass. She stepped on me!" Fire answered, "No problem, Rabbit, my friend. I’ll do just what you ask."

ဖဲးနၣ်အလီၢ်ခံ ကဆီထံအီၣ်နီၢ်အခါအိၣ်စီၤစုၤဒီးထံကျိ ပူၤ မ့ၢ်အူအလၢ်သပျီၢ်ထီၣ်တဘျီဃီ ကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ်

Later, Hippo was eating grass far from the river when, "Whoosh!" Fire burst into flame. The flames began to burn Hippo’s hair.

ကဆီထံစးထီၣ်ကိီးဒီးကၠံာ်ဃုထံ အဆူၣ်အူအီၣ်လၢာ်လံၤ ကဆီထံဟီၣ်ဝဲဒံး မ့ၢ်အူအီၣ်ယဆူၣ် ယဆူၣ်ဟါမၢ်လၢာ်လံၤ ယဆူၣ်ဂ့ၤဂ့ၤ

Hippo started to cry and ran for the water. All her hair was burned off by the fire. Hippo kept crying, "My hair has burned in the fire! My hair is all gone! My beautiful hair!"

ပဒဲသးခု လၢကဆီထံအဆူၣ်အူအီၣ် တုၤခဲအံၤ ကဆီထံတအိၣ်ယံၤဒီးထံလၢၤဘၣ်မ့ၢ်လၢၤအပျံၤမ့ၢ်အူ

Rabbit was happy that Hippo's hair was burned. And to this day, for fear of fire, the hippo never goes far from the water.