The Statue that Sneezed

Hello, this is Johnner, and welcome to Story Norrie.

I'm here to tell you a couple of amusing stories from Korea.

The first is entitled The Statue that Sneezed.

Mr Kim was a man who in today's language we might call chilled.

He liked to do nothing better than to sit out in his yard in the sun and play on his loot.

Meanwhile, his family, which included his old parents, his wife, his four children and a puppy,

didn't always have much to eat.

One day his wife said to him,

get up you lazy lay about go and get something for us to eat.

Mr Kim finished the tune he was playing.

Before rising to his feet, stretching and saying,

Sure thing my Primrose petal.

So he went off up the mountain path with a sharp eye for something good enough to keep his family satisfied for a while.

At first he was optimistic enough to think he might spot a lump of gold,

or perhaps a precious stone, or maybe a root of jinsing.

As he went further on up the path and his legs grew more weary,

he thought that some grapes or berries or pears would do well enough.

No doubt anything worth finding near the path would have been picked up already by some lazy good for nothing.

So Mr Kim decided that it would pay to be a little more adventurous.

He scrambled over some rocks and then down into a ravine and up the other side.

Finally his eyes were rewarded with a magnificent sight.

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