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ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဲဆၢအီၤ ဟဲက့ၤမၤကွၢ်လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤမီၤ

The snail said, "Come and see on Sunday."

ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကတီၤပာ်ကၠးခိအဘ့ၣ်တကယၤဒီးကွဲးတၢ်ကတိၤတထံၣ်လီၤဂာ်လီာ်သးလၢကၠးခိလိၤကီးဘ့ၣ်ဒဲးလီၤ

The snail prepared a hundred pieces of paper and wrote the same message on them.

ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဆှၢလီၤကၠးခိတဖၣ်ဆူအသကီးအအိၣ်ဒီးတဲဘၣ်အဝဲသ့ၣ် ဖဲပဒဲဟဲကီးယၤပဝဲတဖၣ်တဖျၢၣ်လၢ်လၢ်ကဘၣ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤ ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ

The snail handed out the pieces of paper to his friends and said, "When the rabbit comes here calling me, one of you must say: I am the snail."

ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံချိၢ်တဲဘၣ်အသကီးတဖၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံတၢ်လီၢ်ဖဲပဒဲဒီးချိၢ်ပလ့ၤကဘၣ်လဲၤခီဖျိဝဲန့ၣ်လီၤ

Then the snail told his friends to hide behind the bushes where the rabbit and the snail were to pass.

လၢမုၢ်အိၣ်ဘှံးနံၤပဒဲဟဲတုၤဒီးတိကီးချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ပဒဲတဲဝဲ ဟဲဲပကပြၢလီာ်သး ဘၣ်ဆၣ်ယကနၢၤနၤနီၢ်ကီၢ်လီၤ

On Sunday, the rabbit arrived and found the snail. The rabbit said, "Let´s have a race. But I will win."

ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖၣ် ရဲၣ်လီၤအသး လၢသ့ၣ်ထူလီၢ်ခံဖဲတၢ်ပြၢအကျိၤ ဒ်သိဖဲပဒဲဟဲတုၤတဘျီလၢ်လၢ် ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖၣ် ကကီးဖှးထီၣ် ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ဖဲတၢ်ပြၢအခါ ပဒဲကီးထီၣ် ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဧၢ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤဧၢ

Snails lined up behind trees on the racing track so that each time the rabbit passed, a snail would shout, ‘I am the snail…’ During the race, the rabbit called out, "Snail! Snail!"

ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်အိၣ်ခူသူၣ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံတဲဆၢတၢ် ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ ယၤယမ့ၢ်ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ

One of the snails hidden behind the bushes answered, "I am the snail! I am the snail!"

လၢခံကတၢၢ် ပဒဲတၢ်ဘှံးအသးဒိၣ်မး အဝဲမံနီၤဒီးတဲဝဲ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤ တၢ်ဘှံးယသးဒိၣ်မး နနၢၤတၢ်လံ ချိၢ်ပလ့ၤတဖျၢၣ်ကွၢ်ဃီၤတၢ်လၢသ့ၣ်ပဒၢအလီၢ်ခံ

Finally, the rabbit was very tired. He lay down, saying, "Snail, I am so tired; you have won." One snail watched from behind the bush.

လၢတၢ်န့ၣ်အဃိချိၢ်ပလ့ၤမၤနၢၤတၢ်ပြၢမ့ၢ်လၢအတၢ်ကူာ်သ့လီၤ

So the snail won the race because he was clever!