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ဘါတံဒီးဘးဘျံး

Bunty and Bubbly

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ဒီးထိၣ်

...and with birds.

အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်ဂဲၤလိာ်ကွဲကဘီလၢပှၤချံးအီၤလၢစးခိ

She loves to play with paper boats.

အဝဲအဲၣ်တၢ်အူးထီၣ်ဃိာ်မဲးစ့ၢ်ကီး

She also likes to make sand castles.

ဖဲဘၤတံဟဲက့ၤတုၤလၢအဟံၣ် အမိၢ်တဲဘၣ်အီၤလၢကဘၣ်လဲၤအိၣ်လူၢ်ထံ ဘၣ်ဆၣ်အဝဲတလဲၤဘၣ်

When Bunty goes back home, her mother asks her to clean up. But she refuses.

“ယတအဲၣ်ဆးပၠာ်ဘၣ်” အဝဲကိးဃါတၢ်

"I hate soaps!" she screams.

ဘၣ်တနၤ အဝဲမံမီၢ်ဝဲလၢတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဟဲအိၣ်ဝးတရံးအဃိာ်မဲး ဒီးမၤအၢမၤသီအနီၢ်ကစၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

One night, she has a dream. The germs are all around her castle, and are attacking her.

ဘၤတံး တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်ဃိၢ်လူၤအီၤ အဝဲစံၣ်ဃ့ၢ်လၢာ်သးဒီးကိးပသူထီၣ် “မၤစၢၤ… မၤစၢၤ!”

Bunty is chased by the germs. She runs for her life and screams, "Help… Help!"

တဘျီဃီန့ၣ် ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဘၤတံးအိၣ်ဖျါထီၣ်အသး“ဘၤတံးဧၢ ပျံၤတၢ်တဂ့ၤ” အဝဲစံးဘၣ်အီၤ “လဲၤကနိဒီးတၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်” ဆးပၠာ်အစီၤပၤဟ့ၣ်လီၤအကလုၢ်လၢဆးပၠာ်သဘှဲအသုးမုၢ်သံၣ်ဘိအအိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

Suddenly, Soap King Bubbly appears. "Bunty, don’t be afraid," he says. "Go attack the germs!" the Soap King orders his army of bubbles.

ဒီးဆးပၠာ်သဘှဲအသုးမုၢ်သံၣ်ဘိဟီထီၣ်ကွံာ်တၢ်ဆူးတၢ်ဆါအဃၢ်လီၤမၢ်ခဲလၢာ်ခဲဆ့န့ၣ်လီၤ

The army of bubbles chases the germs away.

ကိးနံၤဒဲးန့ၣ်ဘၤတံးကသူဆးပၠာ်လုၢ်ထံ ဒီးအဝဲကထူးအမဲဒီးထွါကွံာ်အလိၤတုၤအကဆှဲကဆှီန့ၣ်လီၤ

These days, Bunty likes to use soap, and she brushes and scrubs herself clean.

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