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Millet Millionaire

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おりがみをつくろう ( おりがみくらぶ より) Horse　　　Horse face

　Once upon a time, it is a story a long time ago.

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　There was a poor man who has been working hard at a village.

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“Oh, I got hungry. I want to have a full meal”
　He has only had dreams that he eats something because he was always hungry.

　One night, the man had a seriously strange dream.

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　A white horse came from the end of a wilderness.
　The horse, which was filled with light, was bright white.

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　The horse enjoyed eating an ear of golden millet, which grew well heavily.
　When the man stared at the horse, it suddenly swung its head.

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　The ear of millet sprit from its mouth was fallen off in front of the man by fluttering and glittering goldenly in the air.

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“Wow, I must be having a dream.What a dream. It was a golden millet.And what was the divine white horse, and the wilderness where the horse appeared?”

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　The man woke up from the dream and found the wilderness, where that white horse has been,is where he had once visited before.

　He left as soon as the sunrise came up and then reached the wilderness he remembered.

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　That is here. It is the same place in the dream. …Ah!
　Surprisingly, the horse that he had seen in the dream walked toward the man from the edge of the wilderness by holding an ear of millet in its mouth.
　And the horse gave him the ear of golden millet that was being held in its mouth.

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“Oh, thank you.This must be a revelation to cultivate this wilderness and to plant millet.”
　He believed so and started cultivating the wilderness.

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　In spring, he sowed seed.

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　In summer, the sun blazed down.
　He has crawled the field and got rid of weed very hard.

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　In autumn, the millet he planted grew well heavily, and glittered goldenly and waved all around.
　He had the best harvest.

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　The man sold the millet and became very rich. And he has got called a “Millet Millionaire”
　Several years later,

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　The village got suffered from a serious drought.
　As an unprecedented severe cold snap swept over the village,children has starved, scared of the cold and cried over.
　The villagers discussed.

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“Why don’t we ask the millet millionaire for help?”
“That’s a good idea, there are tons of millet and anything stocked in that granary.And as the millet millionaire has once been a poor villager like us, he must help us.”
　Soon after the discussion concluded, the villagers crowded in to the millionaire’s residence.
　The villagers begged him to help seriously, but the millionaire shouted after quietly listening to their hope.

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“Shut up! I don’t want to hear it! There is no millet at all! If you opened my granary without asking, you will became flustered that there is no millet in it! Do you understand? Go home!”

　At the night after the villagers went home.
“Oi! what are you doing on my residence’s mud wall?”

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　The villagers began scratching off hidden millet from the wall and from under the floor of all around his residence.

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　The millionaire thought nothing of villager’s activity and fell asleep.

　Crunch, crunch.

　A sound came from the granary.
“Oh, what, it must be a robber from the village!”
“Whoooaaa!”
　The millionaire was shocked and sunk down to the floor.

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　Crunch, crunch.

　As soon as thousands of rats, which have busily been eating millet, became quiet,suddenly it sounded thud,

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　and the granary and the palace-like residence collapsed together.

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　When a cloud of dust blew over, thousands of rats gathered in a mass at a square of the ruin.
　At the same time they were filled with light, a white horse, who was holding an ear of golden millet in its mouth, appeared.

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　Soon the white horse set its front legs neatly, raised its legs high as if it kicks and slowly run up to the sky.

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“Oh, that white horse is a deity horse that was appeared in my dream”
　The millionaire who didn’t consider other’s sufferings finally realized his foolishness by losing everything.
“Flustered millionaire” has mended his ways and share the rest of millet with everyone.

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　Since then, the man have diligently cultivated the wilderness with villagers and helped each other.

　And they lived happily ever after.

The End

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