May. 20 , 2007
The Frog, Toad, and Swan (5)
When Nestor and Satyr were thinking something, Nymph was about hundred meters ahead. She shouted at them:"Hurry… Come on …" , and Her white swings flapped excitedly. They had to quit respective thoughts and quickened their pace, and half an hour, they were already in the forest.
Nestor often went the forest to pick some vegetables for his medicine test. But Satyr rarely went into this forest, nor did Nympth, because she had been busy with her adventures faraway. In fact, she didn’t came to the forest, mainly because there was a dirty ugly snake who adored her very much. But Nymph didn’t like him, every time when she thought of the limbless snake, she felt creepy. She didn’t tell Nestor and Satyr about the snake, for she knew they both hated snakes.
Nympth dance her way in the forest. Nestor and Satyr temporarily forgot their hostilities, and they followed her closely. They thought nothing but hear Nympth’s singing while they stared at her. They seemed to be breathing her singing into every cell of their body, as if they were drinking wine. They were fully intoxicated, however something dangerous was approaching them.
Nympth’s nice figure and grace gait made Nestor and Satyr felt there was an indescribable hot flow through all over their energetic body. They were then blind to everything but Nympth. Nympth felt kind of strange. She heard no sound from behind, so she turned around, and saw they both seemed excited yet very quiet. She wanted to break the uneasy atmosphere, and said:"Let’s have some games, how about riddle ?" Her words seemed to wake them up, after two seconds or three, they said in unison :"That’s good."
Satyr was good at guessing riddle, but Nestor fear it. But before the latter had any time to worry, Nymph began the first riddle:
"What can run but never walks,
Has a mouth but never talks,
Has a bed but never sleeps,
Has a head but never weeps?"
Just less than one minute, Satyr gave the answer: river. A river can run; a river had a mouth; a river had a bed; a river had a head. Nymph smiled at Satyr. Nestor looked gloomy. Satyr gave the second riddle:
" When is a door not a door? "
This seemed a little difficult, Nymph thought it hard with two brows knotted, and Nestor kept scratching his head. Satyr looked satisfied while he looked at the funny face of Nestor, though he also worried if Nymph could get the answer. It seemed a long time passed, finally, a smile came to Nymph’s lips. "It’s a jar." she said excitedly, "A door is not a door when it’s ajar."
It’s Nestor’s turn to gave riddle, but he searched the riddles in his mind that he heard when he was a kid. Finally, he got one:
Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.
A second after Nestor finished his riddle, Satyr answered:"Teeth." "Wow, Satyr, you are a great riddle-solver." Nymph said smilingly at him, "if we met Sphinx, you must be the only survivor from her among us." Satyr smiled gloatingly, it seemed Nymph was already his lover. Nestor was crestfallen, he felt he lost her forever.
The Frog, Toad, and Swan (5)
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