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=The Crocodile, the Farmer and the Kancil= 1.This story is set at a river in Java.

2.The main characters are mainly animals as with most indonesian storys. The main characters are, as the title suggests, The Crocodile, The Farmer and The Kancil.

3.The story starts at a river in Java, a devious crow tricks a crocodile into leaving his river to die from dehydration in the desert, by tempting him with promise of a better river with much more food. The crocodile realising he has been tricked tries to travel back to his river but is to weak to walk. Although luckily a kind farmer finds the crocodile stranded in the bush and hoists the crocodile into his cart and takes him to a river near his farm. Being the crafty crocodile that he is, he tells the farmer that he is to weak to get from the cart and into the water, so the trusting farmer gets his ox to drag the crocodile into the water, once the crocodile was barely in the water he tries to kill the farmers ox. However, a clever Kancil tells the farmer to hit the crocodile with a stick, so the farmer lifts up his hefty staff and brings it down on the crocodiles head, forcing him to retreat.The crocodile then vows revenge against the Kancil. The Kancil comes to drink from the river, and sees a dark figure under the water and says that if it were a log it would float away, so the crocodile floats down the river and the Kancil has a quick drink and then runs away. The crocodile is not tricked the second time and when the Kancil says once again "if that is a log it will float down stream" but the crocodile stayes were it is so the Kancil decides it must be a log, the crocodile snaps and gets the Kancil in its jaws and laughs "hehehe", but the Kancil tricks the crocodile into letting it go by saying that only smart crocodiles could say "hahaha". The crocodile thought that he was smart so he opened his jaws to say "hahaha" and the Kancil sliped away.

4.The moral to this story is that it is far better to be kind and honest than to be mean and crafty.

5.This story's characters are different than many other fairy tales (Goldylocks, three little pigs etc.) as they aren't pigs, horses or other generalised farm yard animals, but are crocodiles and kancils showing emphasis on the types of animals that are in Indonesia and that are celebrated or important.

6.I would call this story a folk tale as it focusses on morels and the difference between right and wrong.