Hello dear Steemians,
Once upon a time in Thai village, lived a tree frog and his widowed mother. The tree frog loved his mother, but he was a troublemaker. He was a kind of child who went west when his mother told him to go east and did this when she told him to do that.
Mother tree frog said, "Jia, jia". Today was warm and sunny. Go play with your friends in the stream. "Jia, jia".
In turned out that the tree frog went to play alone in the mountain. The next day, mother tree frog said, "don't go too far today. I've heard a snake has appeared."
However, the tree frog went to meet his friends instead. "Jia, jia". Don't you want to go on an adventure? "he said, let's go find a snake!".
This kind behavior continued on and on. The mother tree frog's heart was troubled. One day the mother caught a disease. However, the tree frog still didn't listen to his mother. The mother tree frog's health was getting worse and she knew it wouldn't get better. Before she died, the mother tree frog said to her son, "When I'm dead, bury me by the stream, don't bury me in the hill".
Actually, the mother wanted to be buried in the hill. As she knew her son well, she told him the opposite of her wish.
"Jia, jia. Mom, please don't die. Jia, jia."
However, it was already too late.
The tree frog was said. "Jia, jia. Mom is dead because of me," he thought. "I never listened to her words, therefore she got sick. I will do Mom's last wish."
The tree frog did what he thought was correct and buried his mother by the river. Then he came to see his mother's grave every day.
On rainy season, heavy rain started fall down. The rain didn't stop and continued for many days. The rain raised the water level in the river to the mother tree frog's grave until it was covered in water. The tree frog got worried.
"Jia, jia. My mother got washed away! Jia, jia," cried the tree frog sadly.
Since then, frogs cry by the rivers every time the rain falls.
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