My work(children's story) ~1~ A wild boar on the rock

Today, I don't write about Japanese culture.
Personally, I am writing a short story when I have time.
I am thinking that I ask someone to read my works for children in the future.
I want to do such activity in the future.
I wrote the first draft in Japanese. And I am not native at English. So, I think
made some mistakes.

I just show it here. It is kind of long. So, if you don't have time,
please skip it. ^^;

A wild boar on the rock

  A man, whose name is Sugitaro, was living in a small village. Sugitaro looked shabby because he always wore brown patched clothing. Everybody in the village could recognize Sugitaro in the distance because of his clothing. When people found Sugitaro, they always tease him.

  Sugitaro made a practice to clean around a big stone that is located at the end of the village. That rock was called “Bear’s stone”. Bear’s stone was named by people of the village. Bear’s stone looked like a big bear standing. And it was said that the bear’s stone was the God of the animal in the mountain near the village. But the shape of the bear’s stone looked so weird. Nobody but Sugitaro came near to the bear’s stone.

“After I was dead, who clean this bear’s stone? What can I do…?”

 Sugitaro cleaned around the bear’s stone and laid a yellow lily on the bear’s stone as usual.  And he went to work to his field in the mountain. He spent days like that way.

 By the way, there was a man, whose name is Tasuke, was living in the village. He was very great hunter. He always hit game. As soon as he found a hare in the distance, he aimed at it. He could hit it immediately. His skill of hunting was excellent and known well not only in the village but also in the neighbor’s village. All people praised his skill. All people respected for him.

 One day, Tasuke went hunting at the mountain near the village. The day was special day. Because Tasuke kept hitting 95 times without any mistakes until that day. He got excited to imagine what kind of animal he hit at the 100 attempt. A lot of people followed him to see his hunting. They wanted to see until when Tasuke kept breaking the record of hunting.

 His hunting started. He immediately hit 4 rabbits one after another.

“Wow!! Great!!”

 All audience got excited.

 Tasuke was inflated with pride.

“You see!? I am the best hunter in the world! ”

“How great!”

People got excited again.

 Tasuke found a wild boar on the rock. The wild boar has a fine bristle. The color of the bristle was golden and shining.

“That’s my game. Look!”

 Tasuke run up the path of the mountain. And he hid behind the bush. He approached to the golden wild boar and got his bow and arrow ready. It became quiet. Everybody watched at Tasuke. The moment Tasuke were going to shoot, people heard a sound.

Peeeh peeeeh peeeh!!

It was a whistle. The wild boar got surprised and run away. Tasuke shot an arrow toward the target. The arrow seemed to hit the hoof, but the wild boar run into a bush. He has gone to somewhere.

People sighed with disappointed.

Tasuke looked at the audience and shouted.

“Who did it!?  I’ll push him over the cliff!”

The audience became quiet with fright.

Tasuke was mortified because he could not find the nuisance. He could not help but going back to his house in the village. But when he was walking on the path, he found a man standing near the rock. It was Sugitaro. Sugitaro was on the way to his home from his work at the field.

 “Hey, you did it, right!?”

 Tasuke shouted.

“ Tasuke, the golden wild boar has some babies. You shouldn’t kill it.”

 Tasuke got mad and shouted again, hearing what Sugitaro said. But Sugitaro did not mind about that and he went back to his home.

 Since then, people in the village became to ignore Sugitaro. It was said that once Tasuke got to know someone were talking with Sugitaro, he or she would be left out of people in the village. Sugitaro was in a fix. When he tried to talk to someone, he or she always run away. But he did not find a good way. He just keeps working in his field as usual.

 A few days later, Sugitaro found a golden wild boar lay in front of the bear’s stone.

“Oh, here you are. Are you OK? You hurt your hoof.”

 Sugitaro heard a small sound in the bush. When he saw in the bush, there were four babies of the wild boar.

“Yeah, you rear babies. I thought you had babies. I was right. Hey, wait a minute.”

 Sugitaro tore his clothing and treated injured hoof.

“You must be hard to find foods for a while.”

 Sugitaro gave the half of his lunch to the wild boar.

“You shouldn’t come to village. People like the hunting. It is dangerous place to you.”

  Sugitaro went to his field to work.

 Many days have passed since then. It was the beginning of winter.  A man, who ate a rabbit, died. The rabbit was hunted at the mountain near the village. Since the incident, terrible things happened occasionally. A lot of people died in succession. People feared of the mysterious illness. A lot of old man and children died. The grandfather and grandmother of Tasuke died of the mysterious illness. Besides that, Tasuke’s child caught the illness. Because of this affair, people lost the time for hunting. There were no people who go to mountain for hunting.

“It’s awful…our village will collapse soon.”

 All people in the village got lost. All people looked absentminded. The village became silent.

  One night, there was a sound outside the house. People in the house heard the hurried footsteps. He was walking with light steps.

  Rumor had it that some deer came to the village in order to seek for their foods. But someone saw a wild boar running on the lane of the village.

 After that night, the mysterious illness seemed to be disappeared miraculously. Tasuke’s child did not die because of the mysterious illness. 

 People said that the wild boar someone saw at the night was the golden wild boar. People said that the golden wild boar is God and he came to our village to get rid of the demon.  

  The spring has come. It was a good season for hunting.  Tasuke was so excited about the season. And he departed for the mountain as usual. A lot of audience followed to see his great hunting.

  When he tried to look for the first game to hunt in the mountain, he saw something running up to the rock. That was the golden wild boar. Tasuke and the audience became silent.

“That’s the wild boar, he helped our village.”

“Tasuke, he must be God. We had better not hunt him.”

People made noisy.

Tasuke did not aim at the golden wild boar.

The golden wild boar on the rock viewed the bushes, which are extended to the valley.

The bristle on his back was shining.

“He has a bandage over his hoof.”

“Is that Sugitaro’s clothing?”

People thought Sugitaro treated the wild boar when Tasuke hit the hoof.

 Since then, people have never teased Sugitaro. People invited Sugitaro to the festival of the village. Tasuke gave Sugitaro foods and new clothings in apology for his behavior.

People found that the bear’s rock was great God of the mountain. And people kept the rule to clean it every day. Now there are a lot of people who give the offering for the bear’s stone. All people in the village became to respect for God of animal and stopped the rough hunting.

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