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The Legend of Karitina

   Translated from the original

            Chinese folktale                            

Once upon a time...

    ....there was an old man and 

woman who lived in a small small 

village near the forest. They were a 

very nice couple, but were lonely 

wanting a child. 

One day the old man went into the forest 

to chop wood, while his wife had gone to 

wash the laundry by the river.While the old 

woman was scrubbiing her clothes she saw a 

giant peach floating on the river. 

Oh my, that sure is one big peach", the old 

woman said. The old woman called the peach 

over and the peach like magic hobbled 

towards her. "This peach is one strange 

peach, but it sure looks delicious",   the old 

woman said hoisting up the peach..

The woman strained to lift the peach up 

and had great difficulty making it home. 

That night, the old man was so tired, 

fatigued, and hungry ready for dinner.

"Wow, how mysterious! I've never seem a 

peach as big a that, but it sure looks 

delicious.", the old man said.

The old couple together hoisted up the 

mysterious giant peach into the home.

They slowly and carefully cutted the 

giant peach. As they kept on cuttting 

and cutting, they had saw that this 

peach wasn't a real peach. But since 

they were a curious couple they kept on 

cutting and cutting....

 Untill, "Wahhhhh Wahhhh", a little boy 

popped out of the big peach. 

"Oh my, this peach wasn't food, it was a 

gorgeous baby", the old woman said. "My 

my, let us raise him. I always wanted a 

baby, you know.", the old man said both 

suprised and happy. "Well then, the baby is 

ours!", said the old woman happily.

Did you hear about 

that criminal that 

everyone is afraid

of?

One day when Karatina grew up at the age 

of 10, he had overheard a wise couple of 

people talking about a criminal in the town. 

They talked about how he was murdering 

people, stealing money, taking babies away, 

and how people were trying to figure out 

what was wrong. 

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