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Tell Me A Story
The Jackal and the Lion’s Share
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The days were growing shorter, the weather cooler, and all the animals of the veldt knew they needed to begin to pre-pare for winter. One day the lion and the jackal happened to meet each other, and as they talked, they came to a conclu-sion: They would share the burden of hunting for winter.
The lion was stronger and faster, and a better hunter, but the jackal was a clever fellow, and so it was he who suggested the plan. “You do the hunting, lion,” the jackal said, “and I shall transport the game to my den. I’ll prepare the meat and divide the spoils.”
The lion agreed to the plan. He set off to hunt, and each day for one long month he caught and killed several animals. When he had done his duty, he called to the jackal that came to carry the meat home to prepare.
The long month was a great success. At month’s end the lion returned home to see his family. He looked forward to some restful time together, and he was confident his wife would be pleased with all his hard work.
To his dismay, when he reached home, he discovered his wife and his young cubs were nearly starving to death. “What happened?” he cried. “Didn’t the jackal bring you my share of our hunt?”
The lion’s wife shook her mangy head. “He brought us barely enough to keep us alive. He told us you had failed in your hunt.”
The lion roared with fury, and he set off at once to find the jackal. When he reached the jackal’s den, he found only the jackal’s children sitting around a fire. They were sleek and fat and happy. Clearly they had eaten well.
“Where are you parents?” the lion roared.“We do not know,” the children trembled at the sound of
that roar.The lion was furious. He stared at the children. “I will find
your father, and your mother, too. And they shall die! If you see them first, you may tell them so!”
“We shall,” the jackal children whispered. “We promise we will give them the news, but please don’t harm us.”
The lion stormed out of the den, in search of the jackal.The jackal had been ready for this. He and his wife had
prepared by removing all their belongings and carrying them to the very top of the highest cliff they could find. The top of the cliff was reachable only by climbing a steep, difficult, twisting path. Only creatures as sure-footed and fast as the jackals could make their way along such a treacherous trail.
The lion, striding through the veldt, suddenly heard a shout, and when he looked up, he saw the jackal standing upon the krantz — the cliff. “Well, Uncle, helloooooo,” the jackal shouted. “How are you this fine morning?”
“How dare you call me Uncle!” the lion roared. “You are a thief and a liar and a cheat!” His voice thundered across the miles, echoing in the valleys. “You have nearly destroyed my family, and you will suffer!”
“Oh, Uncle, please, let me explain,” the jackal howled. “It was my wife. She is a beast! It was she who stole your share of our game. I can promise you this, Uncle: She will pay dearly for this!”
With that he began to beat a stick upon a rock, and the echo sounded as if he were striking hide. As he hit the rock, his wife screamed to make it sound as if the stick struck her.
Well, the lion could not stand the awful sound and imme-diately cried, “Stop, stop it now!”
The jackal stopped pounding the rock. “Why don’t you come up here and join me for a meal? You must be terribly hungry,” the jackal cried. “All because of my wife’s thieving ways!”
“I will indeed,” said the lion. He began to climb towards the krantz, but the trail was too rough for him. After much effort, he called, “I cannot make it up this trail! You’ll have to come down.”
The jackal was always two steps ahead of the lion. He said, “I have a better idea. I’ll lower a rope and carry you up here to join me in a feast. Everything is ready for you.”
“Very well,” said the lion.The jackal lowered a rope, and the lion wrapped it tightly
around his body. The jackal began to haul him up the side of the mountain, but the rope had a slash in its middle —thanks to the jackal’s plan— and when he was halfway up, the rope broke. The lion crashed to the ground, landing with a thud.
After he recovered his senses, the jackal called out sympa-thetically, “You poor fellow. Again, this is my wife’s fault.” And once again he began to hit the rock, and his wife faked a long wail.
“Stop, don’t hurt her!” the lion begged. “Surely there’s some way I can eat some of your food and take some back to my family.”
“There is, indeed!” said the jackal. “I shall drop a nice, fat eland haunch I have just cooked right into your mouth. And after that I shall drop more food for you to take home to your family.”
“Marvelous,” said the lion. “That is a perfect plan.” He opened his mouth and tilted his head up toward the top of the krantz.
But the jackal had prepared a hot stone. He wrapped this inside a ball of fat and shouted, “Open wide,” as he hurled it over the cliff.
Right into the lion’s mouth that hot stone dropped. And when that hot stone reached the lion’s stomach, he got a ter-rible tummy ache.
No one knows exactly what happened to him, but the jack-al never saw him again. The lion and the jackal have been en-emies ever since the day the jackal stole the lion’s share.
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My favorite part of the school day is being a bus helper. I like being a bus helper because I like helping the kindergartners and the teachers, too.
I like the green badges and the gold pins we get. The thing I like most is that all the bus helpers are so nice.
Morgan Erchman, age 9 (winner)East Pennsboro Elementary School
Grade 4
My favorite part of the school day is when the teach-er reads to us. It is so fun! My teachers makes funny voices, too. She makes expressions when she reads and we all laugh. I love when she reads to us.
Emily Parrish, age 9 (winner)Plainfield Elementary School
Grade 4
My favorite part of the school day is writing be-cause you can express your feelings in your own words and write your ideas down into a story.
Plus, once you pick up your pencil, ideas will start popping into your head like popcorn in a microwave. But my favorite kind of writing is when they give you a cliff hanger to finish!
That’s why writing is my favorite part of the school day.
Maddy Drye, age 9 (winner)Upper Allen Elementary School
Grade 4
My favorite part of the school day is when we have reading groups. I like reading groups because I like to read.
Lily Bechtold, age 6Newville Elementary School
Grade 1
My favorite part of the school day is tech ed. I find it fun because we get to use materials to design our assignment. We also get to design things on com-puters so we can get a basic understanding of what we do.
We are going to do some projects that look really fun to me, like making a car out of foam. We also will be using measurements to make furniture out of pa-per for a little wooden man.
Plus the room is nice and cold, so it’s easy to con-centrate on what you’re doing. That is why, to me, tech ed is the best subject in school.
Colin QuigleyNew Cumberland Middle School
Grade 6My favorite part of the school day is art class. I love to draw and do crafts. Too bad art class is only on day three.
When I grow up, I want to be an artist. I wish we had art class every day.
Brynn Butler, age 10Plainfield Elementary School
Grade4
My favorite parts of the school day are math and sci-ence. I like math and science because it helps me with my grades. I also like them because we have math tests and science tests.
In math, I like addition and subtraction. I am still learning about multiplication and division.
In science class, we do science experiments. We watch movies about water and animals that run on water.
My teacher makes math fun because she lets us play rounding games. She makes science fun because we use different kinds of paper and eye drops to test wa-ter. In science, we talked about how many drops of water you can put on a penny.
Seth Franklin, age 9Plainfield Elementary School
My favorite part of the school day is math. I like math because I like multiplying, adding, subtracting and dividing. I like math because sometimes we use the white boards.
I also like math because I really like adding big numbers. Another reason I like math is because I get it from my dad — he liked math too.
I like math homework because of all the challeng-ing math problems. Math also helps you in life be-cause you need to learn how to count money.
Caitlyn Feathers, age 9Plainfield Elementary School
Grade 4
My favorite part of the school year is PSSAs. PSSAs are my favorite part because I like reviewing
what I learned for the whole school year.I also like the thickness of the test. That is what I
like best during the school year.
Maggie Curtis, age 9Fishing Creek Elementary School
Grade 4
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Mysterious Migration
Monarchs Rule! Every fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies fly thousands of miles to their winter homes in California and Mexico. No other butterfly migrates this way, flying back and forth like birds do. It is a mystery how the butterflies know where to go each year. Other butterflies don’t teach the monarchs where to fly. It’s every monarch for itself. This is very unusual. Most other migratory animals learn where to go from an older animal. The Mini Page talked to monarch experts to learn more about this amazing and beautiful insect.
Migration When animals migrate (MY-grate), they move from one area to another during certain times of the year. Then they move back to their original homes when the seasons change. This travel can help them find food or survive temperature changes.
Flying to warmth Like their tropical ancestors, modern monarchs cannot survive the cold. Each fall, North American monarchs must fly to warmer climates. Most monarchs spend the winter in one special area in the Mexican mountains, the oyamel (oh-yah-MEL) fir forests. The branches provide a protective covering that helps keep the monarchs from getting too hot or cold. The shape of the branches and needles allows thousands of butterflies to cluster together for protection. Monarchs in the far north begin migrating in early August. The closer to Mexico they are, the later they take off. Monarchs begin arriving in their winter refuges in late October.
Monarchs from the East and Midwest fly to Mexico each fall. Monarchs from the West winter in California.
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Extreme MigrationFinding their way No one knows how monarchs navigate, or figure out the right direction. How do they find their way to a place they’ve never been to before? Their parents and grandparents were born during the journey back north and have never seen the winter refuge. Their great-grandparents have already died. Monarchs seem to be able to figure out where they are from anywhere on the planet. Somehow, they gain information from their surroundings. Sometimes monarchs are forced off their route. Storms might blow them hundreds of miles away. But they can still figure out how to get back on course. Experts think monarchs may be checking the position of the sun. Maybe monarchs are able to detect levels of blue and ultraviolet light. Maybe they can sense the Earth’s magnetic field. No one really knows.
Super flier Many tropical butterflies can fly long distances. But none of them can fly as far as the monarch. It can fly as far as 2,000 miles on its journey to Mexico. The monarch also flies higher than any other large insect on the planet. It can fly up to 10,000 feet above the Earth’s surface. Hundreds of thousands of monarchs could be flying overhead, and we might not even see them because they are so high above us.Soaring through the air
Monarchs ride up into the atmosphere on thermals. A thermal is like a current of hot air rising above the Earth. Monarchs soar
up in the thermals the same way birds such as hawks do. The monarchs then glide out on the wind toward their destination.
Saving energy Gliding allows monarchs to fly for two to three months. They need to flap their wings only about every 20 to 30 feet, saving wear on their wings.
Monarchs feed on a saltbush at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. Thousands of monarchs from the East Coast rest at the refuge before continuing on to Mexico.
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Mini Spy . . .Mini Spy is watching some monarch butterflies in the park. See if you can find:• cat • word MINI • dragon • teapot• horseshoe • bird • peanut • butterfly• frog • bucket • man’s face • bandage
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Meet Kristen Bell Kristen Bell stars as Marni in the Disney movie “You Again.” She has been in several movies and TV shows. She has appeared on Broadway in plays such as “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” Kristen, 30, grew up in Huntington Woods, Mich. She first went on stage as a banana in a community play when she was 11. She starred as Dorothy in her high school production of “The Wizard of Oz.”
She later studied musical theater at a school for the arts in New York. She does volunteer work for several animal charities. She adopted a black Labrador that had been rescued after Hurricane Katrina.
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All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category?
Peggy: What is a king’s favorite butterfly?Cheryl: A monarch!
John: How can you revive a monarch butterfly?
Rick: With moth-to-moth resuscitation!
Becky: Why did the little boy throw the butter off the mountain?
Carly: He wanted to see some butter fly!
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The Life of a Monarch
The Mini Page StaffBetty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist
Unusual life cycle Not all monarchs will ever see a winter refuge. Most of the monarchs that fly south in the fall are the great-grandchildren of the butterflies that flew south the year before. The adult monarchs that spend the winter in Mexico can live nine months. Experts believe this is the longest life span of any adult butterflies. However, they don’t live long enough to show their children how to reach their winter homes.Metamorphosis Like other insects, butterflies go through metamorphosis (meh-tuh-MORE-fuh-sus). They go through these stages as they grow up: 1. Egg
2. The larva, or caterpillar
3. The pupa (PYOO-puh), or bag-like chrysalis (KRI-suh-lus), protecting the changing insect
4. The adult. About a month after leaving their winter homes, monarch females begin laying eggs. Adult butterflies growing up from these eggs have much shorter lives than their parents. They live only about one month. The only group of monarch butterflies that can live nine months are those that will be migrating thousands of miles.
Monarchs in danger People are destroying milkweed plants by mowing them or spraying herbicides. They want land for crops or buildings. Poor people in Mexico are cutting down the oyamel fir trees for firewood and building materials. The forests are disappearing. If the monarch loses its only host plant and its main winter home, it will be in serious trouble. People in Canada, the United States and Mexico are joining together to protect monarch habitats.The important milkweed
The only thing monarch larvae can eat is milkweed. The females lay their eggs on these plants. Milkweeds have a substance in them that is poisonous to most birds. It hurts monarchs just a little. When monarch larvae eat the milkweed, this substance becomes part of the butterfly’s body. If a bird eats a monarch, the bird becomes so sick it throws up. The next time the bird sees a monarch, it knows not to eat it. This is one of the reasons monarchs can fly higher than other big insects. Most birds flying that high leave the monarchs alone, but they gobble up other insects.
The Mini Page thanks Dr. Orley R. “Chip” Taylor, director of Monarch Watch; and Robin Will, refuge ranger, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, for help with this issue.Look through your newspaper for stories and pictures about wonderful things in nature.Next week, The Mini Page is about video game art.
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You can help by planting milkweed in your yard or school grounds. Plant flowers butterflies like for food. Keep a journal of butterfly patterns in your area. Have you noticed any changes in the population?
Millions of monarchs migrate to the oyamel forests in Mexico each fall.
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Supersport: Chris JohnsonHeight: 5-11 Birthdate: 9-23-85Weight: 191 Hometown: Orlando, Fla. Another football season has kicked off, and Chris Johnson’s ready to rumble. Now in his third NFL season, the Tennessee Titans speedster is a premier pro running back. In 2009 he rushed for 2,006 yards, becoming just the sixth player in league history to reach the 2,000-yard mark.
With blazing speed and bulldog determination, Johnson might have a shot at breaking the single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards set by the Los Angeles Rams’ Eric Dickerson in 1984. Johnson, who set or tied 18 school records at East Carolina University, also is a talented pass receiver. He had 503 reception yards last year in addition to his rushing totals. He was named the Associated Press Offensive Player of the Year. Johnson lists several favorites on the Titans’ website: favorite car, 1973 Chevy Caprice; favorite food, pizza. But his favorite thing seems to be running for big yardage on a football field.
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