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လိၢ်ကွဲမုာ်အဆၢကတီၢ်

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အဝဲသ့ၣ်လိာ်ကွဲသကိး မုၢ်အိၣ်ဝဲတနံၤန့ၣ် ကိလူကွဲးမုာ်ဝဲဒၣ် "တနံၤညါအံၤပကလိာ်ကွဲက့မ်လၢအသီတမံံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ

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They played together. One day, Golu said, “Let’s play a new game today.”

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"နဲဒၣ်န့ၣ် နဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ယဲယကယူၤလီၤလၢနချၢဃံ" ဆိထူတဲဘၣ် ကိလူဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဆိထူတခွ့ထီၣ်ခီၣ်ဖးထီ

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“You sit down. I’ll land on your back in one flying leap,” said Chhotu. Golu sat down. Chhotu took a mighty leap.

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တုၢ်! ဆိထူခွ့လီၤလၢကိလူအချၢဃံ "ဝီးဧူၤ" ကိလူနံၤဝဲဒၣ်ဝံၤဒီးတဲဝဲ "ယၤဒီးနီၢ် နဲနဘၣ်ဆ့ၣ်နီၤ ဒီးယကခွ့လီၤလၢနချၢဃံတထံၣ်စ့ၢ်ကီး"

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Thump! Chhotu landed on Golu’s back. “Wow!” laughed Golu. “My turn now. You sit down and I will leap on your back.”

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"နၤနုၤ" "မ့ၢ်,ယၤအံၤလီၤ" "နကမၤဒ်လဲၣ်" ဆိထူသံကွၢ်ဝဲ

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“You?” asked Chhotu. “Yes, me,” said Golu. “How can you do that?” asked Chhotu.

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"ဒ်အံၤယၢၣ်" ကိိလူမၤ မၢအကွၢ်

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"Like this!" Golu showed him.

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တူၢ် တူၢ် တူၢ် ဃီၤသၣ်အါဖျၢၣ်လီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်ကိလူအခိၣ်သၣ်

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Thud… thud… thud… A shower of coconuts came down on Golu’s head.

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ကိလူပျံၤဝဲဒီးစံၣ်ကွံာ်ဝဲ အခီၣ်ဘီၣ်လဲၤတူာ်လူာ်ဆူဘးန့ၣ်

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Golu ran away scared.

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ဃီသၣ်ဆံး လီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်ဆိထူအခိၣ်သၣ်

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One small coconut fell on Chhotu.

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‘ကိညၢ်ဒံး ဆိထူဆိမိၣ်’ ‘ဃီသၣ်လီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်န့ၣ် ဂ့ၤန့ၢ်ကဆီလီၤတဲာ်ဘၣ်ခိၣ်သၣ်!’

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<em>That’s better</em>, thought Chhotu, <em>Better a coconut than an elephant on my head!</em>

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From Let's Read (The Asia Foundation), licence CC BY 4.0.