Dongeng Bahasa Inggris

The Golden of Cucumber ( Timun Emas )

A long time ago, a farmer and his wife lived in a jungle. Everyday they went to a tree for praying to giving a baby. When they were praying, a giant passed. The giant gave them a cucumber seed. He said to the farmer, “You will have a baby girl, but you have to promise me to give the child to me when she is seventeen years old. They agreed, because they wanted a baby very much. The giant gave them the seed, then they went home.

Next day, they planted the seed in the yard. Day by day the vine got bigger and bigger. A flower bloomed and finally it became a small gold cucumber. The cucumber grew rapidly, then became a big cucumber. When they arrived, they laid it on the floor. Slowly the farmer cut it. Wow! They were surprised. The farmer said to his wife, “Look! My wife, there is a baby in it. His wife replied, “Yeah! How cute the baby is” They were very happy and they named her Timun Emas.

When she was seventeen years old, the giant came and said to the farmer, “I am coming to take your daughter”. The farmer tried to calm the giant by saying, “Ooo … do not worry. She is playing in the garden now. Let my wife get her”

Meanwhile his wife found Timun Emas and gave her four things in a cloth bag and said to her, “My daughter, the giant has come to take you. Bring this bag with you for fighting him”

“What can I do, mother?” asked Timun Emas

“Run as fast as you can, “ said the farmer’s wife. “Throw one of three things whenever the giant comes close”

Then Timun Emas ran as fast as she could.

Meanwhile the giant was impatient. He go into the hut and looked for Timun Emas. From the garden he saw Timun Emas running towards the jungle. Then he ran after her. She took out the first thing from the bag for fighting the giant. Unfortunately, she was didn’t succesed. The, she took out the second thing from the bag, but didn’t succesed.

Timun Emas threw out the last thing, a handful of shrimp paste. The ground where the giant running suddenly turned into a sea of mud. He was trapped there. He screamed and sank into the sea of mud. Timun Emas quickly went home. The farmer and his wife were very happy.

“Mother, Father, I am still life” shouted Timun Emas.

“Oh, my dear” said the farmer and his wife while embracing her.

“Thank God, our daughter is safe”, said the farmer and his wife again. They were very happy. No more fear. They did not want to lose their daughter anymore. The giant was died.

The End