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Jose Rizal Ang Pagong at Ang Matsing

The tortoise and the monkey found a banana tree floating in a river. They decided to split it, with the monkey taking the top part with leaves and the tortoise taking the bottom part with roots. Over time, the tortoise's tree grew fruit while the monkey's died. When the monkey saw the ripe bananas, he ate them all without sharing. Later, when the monkey was injured after stepping on shells planted by the tortoise, the tortoise got her revenge by tricking the monkey into trying to drown her, only to escape and laugh at the monkey instead.

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Jose Rizal Ang Pagong at Ang Matsing

The tortoise and the monkey found a banana tree floating in a river. They decided to split it, with the monkey taking the top part with leaves and the tortoise taking the bottom part with roots. Over time, the tortoise's tree grew fruit while the monkey's died. When the monkey saw the ripe bananas, he ate them all without sharing. Later, when the monkey was injured after stepping on shells planted by the tortoise, the tortoise got her revenge by tricking the monkey into trying to drown her, only to escape and laugh at the monkey instead.

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ANG PAGONG AT ANG MATSING

Jose Rizal
(Taong 1889 nang inilathalâ ni José Rizal sa Trubner’s Record ng London ang "Ang Pagong at ang Matsing" bilang isa sa “Dalawang
Pabulang Silanganin”. Ang kuwentong bayang ito na bersiyon ni Rizal ay isinulat mismo sa Ingles.)

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The tortoise and the monkey found once a banana tree floating admidst the waves of a river. It was a very fine tree, with large green
leaves, and with roots just as if it had been pulled off by a storm. They took it ashore.

“Let us divide it,” said the tortoise, “and plant each its portion.” They cut it in the middle, and the monkey, as the stronger, took for
himself the upper part of the tree, thinking that it would grow quicker for it had leaves. The tortoise, as the weaker, had the lower part,
that looked ugly, although it had roots.

After some days, they met. “Hello, Mr. Monkey,” said the tortoise, “how are you getting on with your banana tree?”

“Alas,” said the monkey, “it has been dead a long time! And yours, Miss Tortoise?”

“Very nice indeed, with leaves and fruits. I cannot climb up to gather them.”

“Never mind,” said the malicious monkey, “I will climb up and pick them for you.”

“Do, Mr. Monkey,” replied the tortoise gratefully. And so they walked toward the tortoise’s house. As soon as the monkey saw the
bright yellow fruits hanging between the large green leaves, he climbed up and began plundering, munching and gobbling, as quick
as he could. “But give me some, too,” said the tortoise, seeing that the monkey did not take the slightest notice of her.
“Not even a bit of the skin, if it is eatable,” rejoined the monkey, both his cheeks crammed with bananas. The tortoise meditated
revenge. She went to the river, picked up some pointed shells, planted them around the banana tree, and hid herself under a coconut
shell. When the monkey came down, he hurt himself and began to bleed.
After a long search he found the tortoise. “You must pay now for your wickedness; You must die. But as I am very generous, I will
leave to you the choice of your death. Shall I pound you in a mortar, or shall I throw you into the water? Which do you prefer?”
“The mortar, the mortar,” answered the tortoise; “I am so afraid of getting drowned.”
“O ho!” laughed the monkey; “indeed! You are afraid of getting drowned! Now I will drown you!” And going to the shore, he slung the
tortoise and threw it in the water. But soon the tortoise reappeared swimming and laughing at the deceived, artful monkey. ⌘
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Taong 1885 naman umano, apat na taon bago ang paglilimbag ng kuwentong bayan na bersiyon ni Rizal sa London ay iginuhit ni Rizal ang
nasabing akda noong siya'y nasa Paris. Isinama sa talambuhay ni Rizal na isinulat ni Austin Craig noong 1913 ang anim na pahinang bersiyon sa
komiks ng “Ang Pagong at ang Matsing.” Diumano'y iginuhit ito ni Rizal sa scrapbook ni Paz Pardo de Tavera. Binubuo ang "Ang Pagong at ang
Matsing" ng 35 panel. Ito ang itinuturing na kauna-unahang komiks na iniakda at iginuhit ng isang Filipino. Nasa baba ang komiks.

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